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Airport Leipzig/Halle (Germany) - Schkeuditz

Leipzig/Halle Airport
Flughafen Leipzig/Halle
IATA: LEJ ICAO: EDDP
LEJ
Location of Airport in Saxony
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding AG
Operator Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH
Serves Leipzig and Halle
Location Schkeuditz
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 470 ft / 143 m
Coordinates 51°2526N 012°1411E / 51.42389°N 12.23639°E / 51.42389; 12.23639
Website www.leipzig-halle-airport.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
08L/26R 3,600 11,811 Concrete
08R/26L 3,600 11,811 Concrete
Statistics (2012)
Passengers 2,286,151
Passenger change 11-12 0,9%
Freight (tonnes) 863,665
Freight change 11-12 13.6%
Sources: AIP from Eurocontrol,
Annual Traffic Report 2012[1]

Leipzig/Halle Airport, sometimes called Schkeuditz Airport (IATA: LEJICAO: EDDP), is located in Schkeuditz, Saxony and serves both Leipzig, Saxony and Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It has more than two million passengers per year.

The modern airport terminal structure extends over the adjacent motorway and railway. The terminal access is south of the railway while the runway 08L/26R parallels the driveway north of the railway, requiring aircraft to taxi on a bridge over the tracks and roads. The airport was modernized with the 2012 Olympic Games hosting bid for Leipzig in mind but the city lost out to London. The DHL move in early 2008 from Brussels Airport to Leipzig as its European hub increased cargo traffic. Military installations have also been built at the airport for NATO and EU military aircraft.[2]

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Access [edit]

Leipzig/Halle Airport railway station has national connections to cities like Magdeburg, Hanover, Cologne and Dresden. There is a fast train directly to Leipzig inner city and Halle (Saale) city. Furthermore, the 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). Berlin Linien Bus provides intercity bus services to Leipzig/Halle Airport as a part of its Eisenach-Berlin route. There are two daily stops for each direction at LEJ.[3]

Ground ownership [edit]

Although the airport is called "Leipzig/Halle", the airport ground property tax goes to the county of Delitzsch. A deal between the city of Leipzig and Delitzsch led to an exchange of area. In 2007, Leipzig received land outside the airport while ownership of the airport land was transferred to Delitzsch. The District of Delitzsch now owns and claim taxes from the grounds and commercial interest (Gewerbesteuer) from the airport.

Airlines and destinations [edit]

Passenger [edit]
Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Palma de Mallorca
Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Djerba, Enfidha, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Lanzarote, Lamezia Terme, Split, Tenerife-South
Air VIA Seasonal: Burgas, Varna
Austrian Airlines
operated by Tyrolean Airways
Vienna
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal: Burgas, Varna
Condor Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Larnaca, Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Antalya, Burgas, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
Croatia Airlines Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split
Darwin Airline Amsterdam (begins 2 September 2013), Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 2 September 2013)
Germania Seasonal: Debrecen, Palma de Mallorca, Sármellék, Samarkand, Varna
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Augsburg Airways
Munich (ends 26 October 2013)
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Eurowings
Düsseldorf
Lufthansa Regional
operated by Lufthansa CityLine
Frankfurt, Munich
Nouvelair Seasonal: Djerba, Enfidha
Ryanair London-Stansted
Seasonal: Faro, Málaga, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Trapani
Sky Airlines Antalya
TUIfly Seasonal: Antalya, Heraklion, Rhodes
Tunisair Charter: Enfidha
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk

Furthermore some US airlines fly to Leipzig/Halle on behalf of the US Department of Defense that engaged them to bring US Army troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. Leipzig/Halle is used as technical stop for refueling on these flights, that do not appear at any official timetable. The soldiers flown via Leipzig/Halle are listed as transit passengers in its traffic statistic. Airlines operating military charter flights via Leipzig/Halle are Miami Air International, North American Airlines and World Airways.

Cargo [edit]
Airlines Destinations
Aerologic Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Delhi, Dubai, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Toronto
Antonov Airlines Military Charter
DHL Aviation
operated by ABX Air
Brussels, Lagos
DHL Aviation
operated by Aero Charter
Kiev-Boryspil
DHL Aviation
operated by Air Contractors
Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, East Midlands, Frankfurt, London-Heathrow, London-Luton, Madrid, Milan-Orio al Serio
DHL Aviation
operated by Aviastar-TU
Moscow-Sheremetyewo
DHL Aviation
operated by Aviavilsa
Vilnius
DHL Aviation
operated by Bluebird Cargo
Geneva, Turku
DHL Aviation
operated by DHL Air UK
Amsterdam, Athens, Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, Cologne/Bonn, East Midlands, Hong Kong, Lyon, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Munich, New York-JFK, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Ciampino, Stuttgart, Venice-Treviso, Vitoria, Warsaw
DHL Aviation
operated by EAT Leipzig
Barcelona, Bratislava, Brussels, Copenhagen, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Linz, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Milan-Bergamo, Nantes, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Vitoria
DHL Aviation
operated by Exin
Gdansk, Katowice
DHL Aviation
operated by MNG Cargo
Istanbul-Atatürk
DHL Aviation
operated by RAF-Avia
Ostrava, Riga
DHL Aviation
operated by Southern Air
Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Sharjah
DHL Aviation
operated by Swiftair
Brussels, Geneva, Linz, Ljubljana, Turku, Vitoria
DHL Aviation
operated by Westair Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Kalitta Air Bahrain, Brussels, Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, Hong Kong, New York JFK, Sharjah
Volga-Dnepr Military Charter

Statistics [edit]

Number of Passengers Number of Movements Freight
(tonnes)
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  ??,??? 863,665
Source: Leipzig/Halle Airport Traffic statistics[4]

Trivia [edit]

  • On 18 March 1986 an Air France-Concorde landed at Leipzig/Halle for the first time due to trade fair time in Leipzig. Two days later also British Airways sent a Concorde to Leipzig/Halle. Both airlines continued flying to the airport with the Concorde from Paris and London when a trade fair was held in Leipzig in the following years.
  • In December 2004 Leipzig/Halle Airport was a filming spot for Flightplan (starring e.g. Jodie Foster and Peter Sarsgaard).[5] According to the film Jodie Foster's flight departs from Berlin but all film shots showing that airport were taken at Leipzig/Halle.

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