Debrecen International Airport
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Debrecen International Airport Debreceni nemzetközi repülőtér |
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| Operator | Airport Debrecen Kft. | ||||||||||
| Serves | Debrecen, Hungary | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 110 m / 361 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°29′20″N 021°36′55″E / 47.48889°N 21.61528°ECoordinates: 47°29′20″N 021°36′55″E / 47.48889°N 21.61528°E | ||||||||||
| Website | debrecenairport.com | ||||||||||
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Source: Hungarian AIP at EUROCONTROL
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| Passengers | 172 219 |
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| Passenger change 14-15 |
 18.19% |
| Aircraft movements | 1,350 |
| Movements change 13-14 |
 8.35% |
Debrecen International Airport (IATA: DEB, ICAO: LHDC) is the international airport of Debrecen in the Hajdú-Bihar County of Hungary. It is located 5 km (3.1 mi) south southwest of the city center and also easily accessible to adjacent regions of Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine.
The history of Debrecen Airport goes back to the early 20th Century. The first official regular flight carrying mail took off in 1930. Subsequently the Airport served sport and military purposes. From 1930 it had remarkable domestic traffic serving flights from Debrecen to Budapest and to other major cities in Hungary. During World War II it was the base of a Hungarian bombing squad.
Between 1946 and 1968 Debrecen Airport functioned also as an emergency airfield for Budapest Airport. Following World War II the Soviet air force had control over the airport until 1990. The political transition brought revival of the airport and international civilian traffic was launched together with sports aviation.
In May 1991, Soviet troops vacated the airport and handed in over to the Hungarian State. In 1994 Debrecen Municipal Government realized the need to develop the airport and included it in its development plan. The city purchased the airport and has been steadily developing it.
Till 2004 Debrecen city invested 3.5 billion Forints to buy out, operate and continually develop Debrecen Airport.
On 18 June 2012 Wizz Air launched its scheduled service between Debrecen and London-Luton, initially with 3 weekly flights. This was upgraded first to five flights a week in April 2013 and later to daily service. At the end of 2015 it got improved to ten flights per direction per week. At the end of 2012 Wizz launched a new route to Eindhoven and Milan-Malpensa. Milan was substituted for Dortmund in 2013 wich got cancelled the same year.
In 2012-2013 Tatarstan Airlines operated a bi-weekly flight to Moscow-Domodedovo. After the disaster of Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 wich forced Tatarstan Airlines into bankruption the route was taken over by UTair Aviation. In 2014 due to a meltdown in the Russia–European Union relations a number of punitive sanctions were implemented vice versa that forced UTair to cancel the flight.
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