Airport Name and ICAO/IATA Code
Düsseldorf Airport (ICAO: EDDL / IATA: DUS)
Location (City, Country)
Düsseldorf, Germany
Airport Type & Size
Medium sized international airport with 2 runways, supports A380 (Emirates actually fly there), 19M pax/year –> going up but not yet back to 2019 levels of 25M. Surprised actually that even now it hasn’t surpassed 2011 where it had 20M pax, covid hit the airport quite hard.
Why should this airport be added to World of Airports?
A big German holiday airport with a diverse range of airlines and space for players to run their own airline. 2 parallel runways and a single terminal complex with cargo and remote stands next door would make for a really easy layout for the devs, potentially even a generic layout.
Major Airlines & Routes
Eurowings, Condor, TUIFly. Lufthansa could be another local as they previously had a massive presence on European routes as well as their regional/cityline brand (& Contact Air) also having said presence, before most of these routes were canned or handed to German/Eurowings. Germanwings (I’ve done posts for the A320/A319 in both new and old liveries which would be nice to see) and Air Berlin could make for 2 other local airlines considering the presence they used to have. Another older airline that could be included is FlyDBA (Deutsche BA) which operated the F100 and 737 classic in and out of DUS on the regular. And, before the purchase by Air Berlin, LTU was a major airline here with their MD-11s operating regularly to the Americas.2015 airlines,
2009 Lufthansa presence,
Unique Features or Challenges
Dual runways, long taxiway times as terminal in bottom right of airport. Nice easy setout.
Optional: Links, images, maps, or videos
Düsseldorf Airport - WikipediaTerminal,
Remote stands South and then East + Cargo stands (Red arrow is where my Condor 753 parked up),
Control tower,
Terminal,
2010 terminal,
View from the Eastern stands back to the terminal,
Some pictures,
LTU MD-11 at DUS,
Cool 727 + the volume of Lufthansa CRJ’s,
And some more 2003 images, loads of them on jetphotos and a good variety of aircraft and airlines.
) exept for the arabian carriers (emirates, etihad, qatar air) and some charter to the caribbean (condor).