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Zweibrücken Airport

Zweibrücken Airport
Flughafen Zweibrücken
Flughafen Zweibrücken Terminal.jpg
Summary
Airport type Defunct
Serves Zweibrücken, Germany
Elevation AMSL 1,133 ft / 345 m
Coordinates 49°12′34″N 07°24′02″E / 49.20944°N 7.40056°E / 49.20944; 7.40056Coordinates: 49°12′34″N 07°24′02″E / 49.20944°N 7.40056°E / 49.20944; 7.40056
Website flughafen-zweibruecken.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
03/21 8,776 2,675 Concrete
Statistics (2013)
Passengers 220,740 (-9,1%)
Aircraft movements 11,855 (-10,4%)
Cargo volume 81 tons (+103%)
Source:
Passengers 220,740 (-9,1%)
Aircraft movements 11,855 (-10,4%)
Cargo volume 81 tons (+103%)

Zweibrücken Airport (IATA: ZQWICAO: EDRZ), or Flughafen Zweibrücken in German, is a regional airport and former minor international airport in Zweibrücken, Germany. It was the smaller of the two passenger airports in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the other being Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. Zweibrücken currently only features general aviation, since scheduled air services ceased due in November 2014 due to the airport's financial struggle.

Zweibrücken Airport is located on the site of the former Zweibrücken Air Base which was closed in 1991 following the end of Operation Desert Storm. The former site was reopened as a converted commercial airport on 1 September 1994.

In 2006, Germanwings began a new twice-daily service to Berlin Schönefeld Airport, but ceased them in 2011 due to expensive airports taxes. The airport also used to have regular scheduled service operated by Ryanair to London Stansted Airport. The service was announced on 27 May 2008, but ceased already one year later in May 2009. 264,247 passengers used the airport in 2010, decreasing to 242,880 passengers in 2012.

A twice per week service was operated between Zweibrücken and Antalya by Sky Airlines until the airline ceased operations due to financial problems in 2013. These flights were replaced by Atlasjet during summer 2013 season, and were taken over by Freebird Airlines for summer 2014. On 3 November 2013, Air Berlin stopped its weekly summer seasonal route to Palma de Mallorca on behalf of TUI, and were replaced by TUIfly and Germania for the 2014 summer season. In July 2014, TUIfly inaugurated the new seasonal route to Ankara, the airport's third destination in Turkey after Antalya and Istanbul. TUIfly operated eight routes out of Zweibrücken Airport, making it one of their focus cities.


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