Saarbrücken Airport
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Saarbrücken Airport Flughafen Saarbrücken |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Saarbrücken, Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Focus city for | Luxair | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,058 ft / 322 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°12′52″N 07°06′34″E / 49.21444°N 7.10944°ECoordinates: 49°12′52″N 07°06′34″E / 49.21444°N 7.10944°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | flughafen-saarbruecken.de | ||||||||||||||
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Saarbrücken Airport (IATA: SCN, ICAO: EDDR), or Flughafen Saarbrücken or Ensheim Airport in German, is a minor international airport in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It features flights to major cities throughout Germany as well as some leisure routes.
The history of aviation in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German federal state Saarland, began on 17 September 1928 in the district of St. Arnual. Flights operated from Saarbrücken-St. Arnual Airport until 1939. The first plane to use the airport was a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt stopping en route to Paris. In 1929 routes to Frankfurt and on to Berlin and Karlsruhe and then to Munich, Vienna and Budapest were opened.
The airport's suboptimal location meant winter flights were not possible and bad weather and poor flying conditions caused frequent problems. Because of this, Saarbrücken-St. Arnual was closed in 1939. A new airport was built in the district of Ensheim. However, the outbreak of the Second World War made opening the airport impossible.
The airport in Ensheim finally opened in 1964 after several years of reconstruction. In 1972, Saarbrücken Airport became one of 17 airports in Germany to offer international flights.
In 2005, a record year, nearly 500,000 passengers used Saarbrücken Airport.
In 2006, Saarbrücken Airport suffered difficulties caused by the opening of a converted former military airport, Zweibrücken Airport, just approx. 40 km (25 mi) away. German leisure airline Hapagfly relocated from Saarbrücken and opened domestic routes in direct competition with Saarbrücken. In 2006, one day when Hapagfly flew from Heraklion to Saarbrücken, there were bad weather conditions at the airport. Pilots tried twice to land at Saarbrücken on a wet runway. They went on to land at Zweibrücken Airport. Following this incident, Hapagfly decided to relocate all their flights from Saarbrücken to Zweibrücken as Zweibrücken has a longer runway. In July 2014 it was reported that Zweibrücken Airport had filed for bankruptcy due to illegal subsidies as it is too close to Saarbrücken Airport, which has been in existence for much longer.
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