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Airport in Weeze

Weeze Airport

Flughafen Weeze/Niederrhein
Airport Weeze Logo.svg
Weeze, Flughafen -- 2016 -- 2522-8.jpg
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Niederrhein GmbH
Serves Kreis Kleve and Nijmegen
Location Weeze
Focus city for Ryanair
Elevation AMSL 106 ft / 32 m
Coordinates 51°36′09″N 006°08′32″E / 51.60250°N 6.14222°E / 51.60250; 6.14222 (Weeze Airport)Coordinates: 51°36′09″N 006°08′32″E / 51.60250°N 6.14222°E / 51.60250; 6.14222 (Weeze Airport)
Website airport-weeze.de
NRN is located in North Rhine-Westphalia

NRN

NRN is located in Germany

NRN
Passengers 1,036,882 Increase+76,5%
Aircraft movements 0,015,533 Increase+68,6%
Cargo (metric tons) 0,000,000 Steady+00,0%

Weeze Airport (IATA: NRN, ICAO: EDLV), less commonly known as Niederrhein Airport, is a minor international airport in the Lower Rhine region of Germany. It is used by Ryanair. The airport is situated 3.7 km (2.3 mi) southwest[2] of the municipality of Weeze (German pronunciation: [ˈveːt͡sə]) and 7 km (4.3 mi) northwest[2] of Kevelaer, about 33 km (21 mi) southeast of the Dutch city of Nijmegen, and 48 km (30 mi) northwest of the German city of Duisburg. Between 2008 and 2013, this was one of Germany’s fastest-growing airports; however, the airport handled only 1.23 million passengers in 2019, reflecting a decline in throughput triggered by Ryanair reducing its route network.[3]

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History[edit]

The airport uses the facilities of the former military airbase RAF Laarbruch, and began operating as a civil airport in 2003. There is also a large fire department training facility on the airport grounds. Its IATA code is NRN because of its official name Flughafen Niederrhein. The airport has had several different names in its history as a civil airport. The operators originally wanted to name it after the city of Düsseldorf, but the significant distance of 83 km (52 mi) to that city, which already had two closer international airports (Düsseldorf Airport as well as Cologne Bonn Airport), resulted in the name being blocked by a court ruling that such a description would be likely to mislead passengers.[4] However, Ryanair still refers to it as “Düsseldorf-Weeze”. The airport is actually closer to the Dutch cities of Venlo, Nijmegen and Arnhem, the German cities of Duisburg and Essen, and the immediate Weeze area than Düsseldorf.

Weeze was served by the short-lived, Dutch low-cost carrier V Bird, which opened a base here and operated flights to Berlin, Munich and several international destinations, from its inception in 2003 until bankruptcy in 2004. During this time, passenger numbers doubled from 200,000 to 400,000 within a year.[5] In February 2014, Ryanair announced the cancellation of 18 routes from Weeze for the 2014 summer season citing a lack of aircraft.[6]

In 2019, the airport faced severe financial difficulties due to a fall in passenger numbers by 30 percent over the previous year as a result of the cancellation of several Ryanair routes.[7]

Facilities[edit]

Weeze Airport has one passenger terminal building with restaurants, shops, and check-in facilities. The apron, which is to the west of the terminal building, features nine aircraft stands for mid-sized aircraft such as the Boeing 737-800. As there are no jet bridges due to the location of the apron to the west side of the terminal building instead in front of it, bus-boarding is used for six stands. Only three stands are close enough to the terminal to be accessed on foot.

Airlines and destinations[edit]

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and seasonal flights at Weeze Airport:[8]

Airlines Destinations
Air Arabia Fès
Freebird Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya (begins 25 July 2023),[9]Bodrum (begins 25 July 2023)[9]
Ryanair Agadir, Alicante, Asturias,[10]Bari, Copenhagen, Faro, Fès, Málaga, Marrakesh, Nador, Palma de Mallorca, Rabat, Tangier, Thessaloniki, Zagreb
Seasonal: Ancona, Bergamo, Béziers, Cagliari, Castellón, Chania, Corfu, Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, Girona, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Oujda, Pescara, Porto, Pula, Reus, Rhodes, Seville (resumes 2 June 2023),[11]Tenerife–South, Trapani, Zadar
Sky Express Seasonal charter: Heraklion (begins 13 May 2023),[12]Kos (begins 23 April 2023),[12]Rhodes (begins 22 April 2023),[12]Zakynthos (begins 27 April 2023)[12]
Tailwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Antalya (begins 14 April 2023)[9]

Statistics[edit]

Passengers
2008 1,523,990
2009 Increase 2,402,083
2010 Increase 2,896,730
2011 Decrease 2,421,108
2012 Decrease 2,208,429
2013 Increase 2,487,843
2014 Decrease 1,807,543
2015 Increase 1,909,704
2016 Decrease 1,854,108[13]
2017 Increase 1,885,811[14]
2018 Decrease 1,700,711
2019 Decrease 1,231,100[3]
2020 Decrease 299,711
2021 Increase 587,478
2022 Increase 1,030,000[15]
Source: ADV[16]

Ground transportation[edit]

Coach[edit]

Direct buses serve Düsseldorf Main Station up to 7 times a day; the journey taking 1h 15min. Airexpressbus offered from June 2007 until spring 2017 a service between Weeze Airport and Amsterdam with stops at Eindhoven Airport, Utrecht and ‘s-Hertogenbosch.[17]

Train[edit]

Bus shuttles serve the railway stations of Weeze, Kevelaer and Goch on a frequent basis. Travellers for Düsseldorf Main Station will need to catch a bus or taxi to either Weeze or Kevelaer railway stations.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Media related to Flughafen Niederrhein at Wikimedia Commons


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