Stuttgart Airport
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Stuttgart Airport (in German Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) Template:Airport codes is an international airport serving Stuttgart, Germany.
The airport is situated in the south side of the Stuttgart metropolitan area, with portions lying in three cities. The terminal and landside facilities are in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, while the runways cross the boundary between Stuttgart and Filderstadt. It is the 7th most important airport in Germany with about 9.41 million passengers in 2005. It is the main airport for the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg.
History
The airport was established in 1939, replacing the old airport in Böblingen. In 1945 the US Air Force took over the airport; it still maintains a base on the southern side of the airport. In 1948 the airport was returned to the German authorities.
The airport was extended after World War II; the airstrip was extended to 1800m in 1948, then to 2250m in 1961 and finally to 3345m in 1996.
After the replacement of the old 1938 terminal was finally finished in 2004, there are four terminals to service passengers.
Airlines
The following airlines fly to Stuttgart Airport:
- Aegean Airlines (Kavala, Thessaloniki)
- Air Berlin (Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air France operated by Régional (Lyon)
- Alitalia
- Alitalia Express (Milan-Malpensa)
- Atlasjet (Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Austrian Arrows operated by Tyrolean Airways (Vienna)
- B&H Airlines (Sarajevo)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham (UK))
- Carpatair (Timişoara)
- Condor (Bremen, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hanover, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Málaga, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Tenerife-South)
- CSA Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Dau Air (Paderborn)
- DBA (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Hanover, Nice, Priština)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Dubrovnik Airlines (Rome-Ciampino)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca)
- European Air Express (Leipzig/Halle, Münster-Osnabrück)
- Finnair
- Finnair operated by Finncomm Airlines (Helsinki)
- Germania (Lamezia Terme, Priština)
- Germanwings (Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Budapest, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Istanbul-Sabiha Gokcen, Krakow, Lisbon, London Stansted, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb)
- Hamburg International (Arvidsjaur)
- Hapagfly (Agadir, Ankara, Antalya, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cairo, Catania, Djerba, Düsseldorf, Faro, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Hanover, Heraklion, Hurghada, Karlsruhe/Baden, Larnaca, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Leipzig/Halle, Luxor, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Monastir, Munich, Münster-Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki)
- HLX.com (Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Hanover, Milan-Malpensa, Manchester (UK), Marrakech, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Pisa, Rijeka, Stockholm-Arlanda, Venice)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- Karthago Airlines (Monastir)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- LGW (Dortmund)
- LTU International (Aruba, Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Hamburg, Hurghada, Las Palmas, Marsa Alam, Munich, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm El Sheikh)
- Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg)
- Lufthansa CityLine (Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, London Heathrow, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Paris-de Gaulle, Vienna)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Geneva, Hanover, Munich, Turin)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Bremen, Düsseldorf)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- MNG Airlines (Istanbul)
- Nouvelair Tunisia (Monastir)
- Olympic Airlines (Thessaloniki)
- Onur Air (Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir)
- Pegasus Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Kayseri)
- SAS (Copenhagen)
- Sky Airlines (Munich)
- SkyEurope (Bratislava)
- Styrian Spirit (Graz)(Services suspended)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Istanbul, Izmir)
- Swiss International Air Lines
- Swiss International Air Lines operated by Swiss European Air Lines (Zürich)
- Tunisair (Monastir)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir)
- VLM Airlines (Rotterdam)