Düsseldorf Airport
Airport in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Düsseldorf Airport (German: Flughafen Düsseldorf, pronounced [ˌfluːkhaːfn̩ ˈdʏsl̩dɔʁf]) (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDDL), known as Düsseldorf International Airport until March 2013, is an international airport serving Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi; 3.8 nmi) north of downtown Düsseldorf and some 20 kilometres (12 mi; 11 nmi) southwest of Essen in the Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany's largest metropolitan area.
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Rhine-Ruhr | ||||||||||||||
Location | Lohausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | ||||||||||||||
Opened | 19 April 1927; 97 years ago (1927-04-19) | ||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 44.8 m / 147 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°17′22″N 6°46′00″E | ||||||||||||||
Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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Düsseldorf is the fourth-busiest airport in Germany and handled 16 million passengers in 2022.[3] It is a hub for Eurowings and a focus city for several more airlines. The airport has three passenger terminals and two runways and can handle wide-body aircraft up to the Airbus A380.[4]