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Echterdingen Airport
Echterdingen Airport (officially: "Flughafen Stuttgart", formerly "Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen") is an airport in Stuttgart, Germany. The airport has the IATA Airport Code STR and the ICAO airport code EDDS.
The airport is situated at the southeastern border of the Stuttgart metropolitan area, between Stuttgart, Filderstadt and Leinfelden-Echterdingen . It is the 6th most important airport in Germany with about 8.8 million passengers in 2004. 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 the passengers.
Airlines
The following airlines fly to Echterdingen Airport:
- Aegean Airlines
- Aero Lloyd
- Air Alps
- Alle Airlines
- Air Berlin
- Air France
- Air Kazakhstan
- Air One
- Air Via
- Alitalia
- Atlas International
- Austrian Airlines
- Blue Line
- British Airways
- British Airways Citiexpress
- Bulgarian Air Charter
- Carpatair
- City Air
- Condor Flugndeist
- CSA Czech Airlines
- Delta Air Lines
- Deutsche BA
- Duo Airways
- Enkor Airlines
- European Air Express
- Eurowings
- Finnair
- Freebird Airlines
- Gandalf Airlines
- Germania Airlines
- Golden Air
- Hamburg International
- Hapag-Lloyd
- Iberia Airlines
- Inter Airlines
- Jat Airways
- Kibris Turkish
- KLM Cityhopper
- Kyrgyzstan Airlines
- LTE Airlines
- LTU International
- Macedonian Airlines
- MALÉV Hungarian Airlines
- MNG Airlines
- Nouvelair Tunisie
- Olympic Airlines
- Onur Air
- Orenburg Avia
- Pegasus Airlines
- Portugalia Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- Shorouk Air
- Sky Airlines
- SkyEurope
- SN Brussels
- Sobelair
- Spanair
- Styrian Airways
- Sunexpress Airlines
- Swiss International Airlines
- TAROM
- Tunisair
- Turkish Airlines
- VLM Airlines
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