Braunschweig Airport

Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport Flughafen Braunschweig-Wolfsburg
IATA: BWE ICAO: EDVE
Summary
Airport type	Public / Private
Operator	Airport Braunschweig-Wolfsburg GmbH
Serves	Braunschweig and Wolfsburg
Hub for	Volkswagen Air Services
Elevation AMSL	295 ft / 90 m
Coordinates	52°19′09″N 010°33′19″E / 52.31917°N 10.55528°E / 52.31917; 10.55528Coordinates: 52°19′09″N 010°33′19″E / 52.31917°N 10.55528°E / 52.31917; 10.55528
Website	flughafen-braunschweig-wolfsburg.de
Map
EDVE Location of the airport in Lower Saxony
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 08/26 2,300 7,546 Asphalt 08R/26L 900 2,953 Grass
ILS for Runway 08/26 only.

Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport (German: Flughafen Braunschweig-Wolfsburg) (IATA: BWE, ICAO: EDVE) is an airport in Braunschweig, Germany. Originally constructed by the German Air Ministry in the 1930s, it is located on the northern edge of Braunschweig, which is situated between Hanover and Magdeburg. Braunschweig Airport traditionally has been a major centre of gliding in Germany.

The headquarters of the German Federal Aviation Office, the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt are located at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport. Also, the Braunschweig University of Technology has some of the aeronautical departments on site.

Its main runway is 2,300 metres (7,546 ft) long and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. It also has a parallel grass runway of 900 metres (2,953 ft) by 30 m.

In May 2009 the extension of the runway from 1,680 metres (5,512 ft) to 2,300 metres (7,546 ft) had received its final legal go-ahead. Some €38 million were envisaged for the airport upgrade. Despite strong resistance from local action groups, both Volkswagen and DLR pushed forward with the project in order to be able to use bigger than regional jets under all weather conditions in the future. While the DLR will fly a research Airbus A320 within their flight control and supervision programme from the airport, Volkswagen intends to utilise narrow body aircraft on its business routes instead of its current regional aircraft types. No plans to intensify commercial traffic from and to the airport have been made public yet.

There are no scheduled public passenger or cargo services at Braunschweig-Wolfsburg. The airport is used for unscheduled traffic with business-jets, as well as by the German Aerospace Center, e.g. with their special mission aeroplanes to discover phenomena in the atmosphere.