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Bremen Airport

Bremen Airport
Flughafen Bremen
IATA: BRE ICAO: EDDW
Summary
Airport type Commercial
Operator Flughafen Bremen GmbH
Serves Bremen
Elevation AMSL 14 ft / 4 m
Coordinates 53°0251N 008°4712E / 53.0475°N 8.78667°E / 53.0475; 8.78667 (Bremen Airport)Coordinates: 53°0251N 008°4712E / 53.0475°N 8.78667°E / 53.0475; 8.78667 (Bremen Airport)
Website www.airport-bremen.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 2,040 6,693 Asphalt
23 700 2,297 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface
m ft
H1 30 98 Grass
Source: German AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Bremen Airport or Flughafen Bremen (IATA: BREICAO: EDDW) serves the German city of Bremen and is located 3.5 km (2.2 mi) south of the city.[1] There were 2.4 million passengers in 2008.

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History

The airport was founded in 1913 when the senate of Bremen granted the Aviation Association an official permission to operate a flight base.

1920 Netherland based airline KLM had a connection from Amsterdam via Bremen and Hamburg to Copenhagen.

1945 the airport was taken over by American troops and handed back to the city in 1949. During the 1950s, connections to New York and Rio de Janeiro were added.

1989 was the first year that the airport had more than one million passengers.

The Bremenhalle inside the airport hosts a little aviation and space exploration museum, displaying the Junkers W33 Bremen air plane and the first Spacelab module.

Ground transportation

Tram number 6 departs every 5 to 10 minutes (on Sunday evenings up to 30 min) to Bremen City Centre. The ride takes 11 minutes and costs 2.25.[2] Bus2fly offers a bus to and from Hamburg, scheduled to coordinate with Ryanair flights. The ride takes 90 minutes and costs 12.00 each way.[3]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Antalya [seasonal], Nuremberg [ends 29 April], Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South [seasonal]
Air France operated by Régional Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Via Burgas, Varna [seasonal]
Bulgarian Air Charter Burgas [seasonal], Varna [seasonal]
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Munich
Ostfriesische Lufttransport Bristol, Brussels, Copenhagen, Heringsdorf, Nuremberg, Toulouse, Zurich
Ryanair Alghero, Alicante, Edinburgh, Faro, Gdask, Girona, Haugesund, Kaunas, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Málaga, Memmingen, Milan-Orio al Serio, Oslo-Rygge, Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca, Riga, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tampere, Tenerife-South, Venice-Treviso
Sky Airlines Antalya
SunExpress Antalya
XL Airways Germany Fuerteventura [ends 26 April], Hurghada [ends 30 April], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [ends 28 April], Tenerife-South [ends 29 April]

References

  1. ^ a b EAD Basic
  2. ^ BSAG Bremer Straßenbahn AG
  3. ^ [1] bus2fly

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