Weeze Airport
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| Weeze Airport Flughafen Weeze/Niederrhein |
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| IATA: NRN – ICAO: EDLV | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Flughafen Niederrhein GmbH | ||
| Serves | Weeze (7 km) Kleve (21km) Nijmegen (33 km) Duisburg (55km) Essen (85 km) Düsseldorf (89 km) |
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| Elevation AMSL | 106 ft / 32 m | ||
| Coordinates | 51°36′08″N 06°08′31″E / 51.60222°N 6.14194°ECoordinates: 51°36′08″N 06°08′31″E / 51.60222°N 6.14194°E | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 09/27 | 8,005 | 2,440 | Concrete/Asphalt |
| Statistics (2008) | |||
| Passengers | 1.52 mil. | ||
Weeze Airport or Niederrhein Airport (IATA: NRN, ICAO: EDLV) is an airport situated in the small municipality of Weeze in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhineland) of western Germany. It is about 33 kilometres (21 mi) southeast of Nijmegen, Netherlands and 48 km (30 mi) northwest of Duisburg. It uses the facilities of the former military airbase RAF Laarbruch, and began operations as a civil airport in 2003.
Weeze Airport is used only by low-cost carriers, mainly Ryanair. Its IATA-Code is “NRN” because of its former name Flughafen Niederrhein.
The airport has undergone several name changes. The operators originally wanted to name it after the city of Düsseldorf, but the significant distance to that city, which already had three closer international airports (Düsseldorf International, Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach and Cologne/Bonn), resulted in the name being blocked by a court ruling that it was likely to mislead passengers. However, airlines which use the airport, particularly Ryanair, still refer to it as 'Düsseldorf (Weeze)'.
The airport actually serves better the closer Dutch cities of Venlo, Nijmegen and Arnhem, the German city of Duisburg and the immediate Weeze area.
There are direct public buses to Düsseldorf, only 9 per day. There are also buses to Weeze, Duisburg and Essen in Germany and to the Dutch cities Nijmegen, Venlo and Arnhem every hour.
In 2008, with 1.52 mil. passengers, which represented growth of 80% on the previous year, it was among Europe’s fastest-growing airports.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Hamburg International | Antalya, Bourgas, Corfu, Faro, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South |
| Nouvelair | Monastir |
| Pegasus Airlines | Antalya |
| Ryanair | Alghero, Alicante, Almeria, Ancona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Beziers, Birmingham, Bologna, Bratislava, Bydgoszcz, Cagliari, Dublin, Edinburgh, Faro, Girona, Gothenborg-City, Ibiza, Krakow, Lamezia Terme, London-Stansted, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Milan-Bergamo, Oslo-Torp, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Reus, Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Santander, Seville, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Stockholm-Vasteras, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Turin, Valencia, Valladolid, Växjö, Venice-Treviso, Wroclaw, Zadar |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| SunExpress | Antalya |
| Transavia | Heraklion [seaqsonal], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [seasonal] |
[edit] Cargo airlines
- SkyWings Cargo Airlines (Coventry)
[edit] External links
- Official website (In English, German and Dutch)
- Photos taken at Weeze Airport
- Airport information for EDLV at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
