Hamburg Airport
Hamburg Airport (IATA: HAM, ICAO: EDDH), known in German as Flughafen Hamburg, is a major international airport in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany. Since November 2016 the airport has been named after the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. It is located 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north of the city centre in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter and serves as a hub for Eurowings and focus city for Condor. It was formerly named Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport, a name still frequently used.
Hamburg Airport Flughafen Hamburg | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transportation and Innovation (City of Hamburg) (51%) AviAlliance (49%) | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Flughafen Hamburg GmbH | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Hamburg Metropolitan Region | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Hamburg, Germany | ||||||||||||||
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| Built | 1911 | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 53 ft / 16 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°37′49″N 009°59′28″E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | hamburg-airport.de | ||||||||||||||
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HAM Location of Hamburg Airport HAM HAM (Germany) | |||||||||||||||
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Hamburg Airport is the fifth-busiest of Germany's commercial airports measured by the number of passengers and counted 17,231,687 passengers and 156,388 aircraft movements in 2018. As of July 2017, it featured flights to more than 130 mostly European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as two long-haul routes to Dubai and Tehran. The airport is equipped to handle wide-bodied aircraft including the Airbus A380.
Hamburg's other airport, Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport where the Airbus factory is located, is not open to commercial traffic.