Leipzig/Halle Airport
Leipzig/Halle Airport Flughafen Leipzig/Halle | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding AG | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Leipzig and Halle | ||||||||||||||
Standort | Schkeuditz, Germany | ||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 470 ft / 143 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°25′26″N 012°14′11″E / 51.42389°N 12.23639°E | ||||||||||||||
Website | mdf-ag.com | ||||||||||||||
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Leipzig/Halle Airport (IATA: LEJ, ICAO: EDDP) (German: Flughafen Leipzig/Halle) is an international airport located in Schkeuditz, Saxony, Germany, and serves both Leipzig, Saxony, and Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.
It is Germany's 14th largest airport by passengers and handled more than 2.61 million passengers in 2019 mainly with flights to European leisure destinations. In terms of cargo traffic, the airport is the fifth-busiest in Europe and the second-busiest in Germany after Frankfurt Airport, having handled 1,238,343 metric tonnes of cargo in 2019. The airport serves as the main European hub for DHL Aviation and the main hub for AeroLogic. Military installations have also been built at the airport for NATO and EU military aircraft.[6]
History
The airport was built new from the ground up at a location between Halle and Leipzig from 1926 and opened in 1927.[citation needed]
On 18 March 1986, Air France flew a Concorde to the airport, to coincide with the world-renowned Leipzig trade fair. Two days later British Airways also flew a Concorde to Leipzig/Halle.[citation needed] In the following years, both airlines operated Concorde flights from Paris and London when the trade fair was held in Leipzig.
Despite its name, the airport is located in the town of Schkeuditz, Nordsachsen. A deal between the city of Leipzig and the Landkreis Delitzsch led to a land exchange. In 2007, Leipzig received land outside the airport while ownership of the airport land was transferred to Delitzsch. The District of Delitzsch, which by now has merged to become part of Landkreis Nordsachsen, owns and claims taxes from the grounds and commercial interest from the airport.[citation needed]
DHL Aviation moved its European hub from Brussels Airport to Leipzig/Halle in early 2008, leading to a significant increase in cargo traffic at the airport. Leipzig bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and the airport was modernised as a result, even though London was eventually awarded the games.[citation needed]
In spring 2013, Ryanair announced the start of operations to Leipzig/Halle on six routes. However, one year later all of them except the flights to London–Stansted were terminated.[7] In February 2015, Etihad Regional announced the immediate termination of all their Leipzig/Halle operations which had started only two years earlier, due to changes to their operational concept. All three routes were shut down while two newly announced ones did not start.[8]
In September 2016, Pakistan International Airlines announced plans to replace Manchester on their Islamabad - Manchester - New York City route with Leipzig/Halle in 2017 due to lower operational costs and time-saving measures. As the airline holds Fifth Freedom rights, this would be Leipzig/Halle's first passenger service to the United States.[9] In October 2017 the airline announced it would end of all routes to the United States, so plans to use Leipzig as a layover to New York-JFK never came to be.[10]
In October 2016, DHL inaugurated a major expansion to its freight facilities at the airport. Two new cargo terminals increased handling capacity by 50 percent.[11]
As of April 2018, the largest passenger airline at Leipzig/Halle Airport (measured by weekly departures) is Condor with 55 outgoing flights per week. For this purpose, three Airbus A321 aircraft are stationed at the airport. The second-largest airline was Small Planet Airlines (Germany) with 18 outgoing flights per week. The airline stationed an Airbus A320 aircraft to serve several leisure destinations for TUI Group.[12] It was followed by SunExpress Deutschland which operated 15 weekly departures and stationed for this a Boeing 737 aircraft at the airport.[13][14]
In August 2018, DHL announced further expansion of its facilities at the airport. Beside an enlargement of the apron, a new pilot training center was also planned. The number of employees was to increase from 5700 to 6000.[15] At the same time, EAT Leipzig announced that they would add five used Airbus A330 freighters to their fleet, for a total of 36 aircraft.[16] Also in August 2018, the Russian Volga-Dnepr Group announced plans to launch a new German freight subsidiary based at the airport.[17][18]
Facilities
Terminal
The modern airport terminal structure extends over the adjacent motorway and railway. It integrates the main car park as well as the check-in-facilities and is connected to a pier equipped with six jet bridges as well as several apron stands. Due to its compact design, it provides short walking distances. The airport terminal has immigration facilities for international flights but no international transfer area.
Runways
The airport has two runways. Terminal access is south of the railway. Runway 08L/26R runs parallel to the road north of the railway, requiring aircraft to taxi on a bridge over the tracks and roads.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Leipzig/Halle Airport:[19]
Airlines | Destinations |
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Air Cairo[20][21] | Hurghada |
Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
Condor[22] | Agadir (resumes 20 May 2024),[23] Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Antalya,[24] Chania,[25] Corfu, Faro,[25] Heraklion, Jerez de la Frontera (begins 17 May 2024),[23] Kos, Lanzarote (resumes 31 October 2023),[26] Rhodes |
Corendon Airlines | Antalya Seasonal: Hurghada[27] |
European Air Charter | Seasonal charter: Burgas,[28] Varna |
Eurowings | Palma de Mallorca |
Freebird Airlines[29] | Seasonal: Antalya Seasonal charter: Burgas, Corfu, Fuerteventura |
Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich[30] |
Marabu | Seasonal: Heraklion[31] |
Nouvelair | Seasonal: Djerba, Monastir[32] |
Ryanair | London–Stansted[33] Seasonal: Dublin[33][34] |
Smartwings | Seasonal charter: Abu Dhabi (begins 14 October 2023)[35] |
Southwind Airlines | Seasonal charter: Antalya[36] |
Sundair | Seasonal: Antalya[32] |
SunExpress | Antalya |
Turkish Airlines | Istanbul |
Cargo
Military
Some US airlines have flown to Leipzig/Halle on behalf of the US Department of Defense, to bring US Army troops and US Marines to Afghanistan and Iraq. Leipzig/Halle is used as a technical stop for refueling on these flights.[47] They do not appear at any official timetable. Marines and soldiers flown via Leipzig/Halle are listed as transit passengers in its traffic statistics. Military charter flights are also operated via Leipzig/Halle.[citation needed]
Statistics
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Passengers | Movements | Freight (in t) | ||
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1990 | 274,878 | 9,549 | 366 | |
1991 | 634,424 | 26,089 | 4,372 | |
1992 | 1,073,378 | 42,960 | 8,611 | |
1993 | 1,521,436 | 48,510 | 17,482 | |
1994 | 1,901,797 | 52,590 | 23,189 | |
1995 | 2,104,822 | 53,807 | 25,225 | |
1996 | 2,186,649 | 50,298 | 22,410 | |
1997 | 2,248,852 | 47,284 | 17,220 | |
1998 | 2,108,779 | 43,778 | 12,866 | |
1999 | 2,162,769 | 47,944 | 15,220 | |
2000 | 2,288,931 | 47,030 | 17,086 | |
2001 | 2,185,130 | 42,408 | 15,799 | |
2002 | 1,988,854 | 41,209 | 16,882 | |
2003 | 1,955,070 | 40,303 | 17.559 | |
2004 | 2,041,046 | 39,316 | 12,575 | |
2005 | 2,127,895 | 37,905 | 15,641 | |
2006 | 2,348,011 | 42,417 | 29,330 | |
2007 | 2,723,000 | 50,972 | 101,364 | |
2008 | 2,462,256 | 59,924 | 442,453 | |
2009 | 2,421,382 | 60,150 | 524,082 | |
2010 | 2,348,597 | 62,247 | 663,024 | |
2011 | 2,266,743 | 64,097 | 760,344 | |
2012 | 2,286,151 | 62,688 | 863,665 | |
2013 | 2,240,860 | 61,668 | 887,101 | |
2014 | 2,331,399 | 63,569 | 910,708 | |
2015 | 2,321,975 | 65,061 | 988,240 | |
2016[48] | 2,192,145 | 64,492 | 1,052,372 | |
2017[49] | 2,365,141 | 69,815 | 1,138,477 | |
2018[50] | 2,571,119 | 79,218 | 1,221,429 | |
2019[51] | 2,618,772 | 78,980 | 1,238,343 | |
2020[52] | 530,221 | 64,483 | 1,383,485 | |
2021[53] | 667,784 | 76,104 | 1,591,618 | |
2022 | 1,558,602 | 80,902 | 1,510,575 | |
Source: Leipzig/Halle Airport Traffic statistics[54]
Ground transportationTrainLeipzig/Halle Airport railway station is located directly beneath the passenger terminal and has Intercity connections on the Dresden-Magdeburg-Hanover-Cologne route. Two lines of the suburban S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland connect directly to Leipzig and Halle, furthermore to Altenburg and Zwickau. Transit connection of the network reach most of parts of Central Germany. CarThe airport is connected to two motorways: the A14 connecting to Dresden (130 km), Halle (Saale, 20 km) and Magdeburg (130 km), and the A9 connecting to Munich (430 km), Nuremberg (280 km), and Berlin (180 km). CoachFlixbus connects in both ways twice per day to Dresden, Göttingen, and Kassel and once per day to Dortmund and Cologne. In popular cultureThe airport's facilities have been featured in major films and TV shows during recent years:
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