Airport Weeze

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Airport Weeze
Flughafen Weeze/Niederrhein

IATA: NRN – ICAO: EDLV
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Niederrhein GmbH
Serves Weeze
Elevation AMSL 106 ft / 32 m
Coordinates 51°36′08″N 06°08′31″E / 51.60222, 6.14194Coordinates: 51°36′08″N 06°08′31″E / 51.60222, 6.14194
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
09/27 8,005 2,440 Concrete/Asphalt

Airport Weeze or Niederrhein Airport (IATA: NRN, ICAO: EDLV) is an airport situated in the small municipality of Weeze in the Niederrhein (Lower Rhineland) of western Germany. It is about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Nijmegen, Netherlands and 50 km (31 mi) north of Düsseldorf. It is built on the site of the former military airbase RAF Laarbruch, and began operations as a civil airport in 2003.

Weeze Airport is used only by low-cost carriers, mainly Ryanair. Its IATA-Code is “NRN” because of its former name Flughafen Niederrhein.

The airport has undergone several name changes. The operators originally wanted to name it after the city of Düsseldorf. But because of the rather big geographic distance to Düsseldorf, and as there were already three international airports closer to the city (Düsseldorf International, Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach and Cologne Bonn), the name was blocked by a court decision which argued that naming the airport after Düsseldorf would be misleading to passengers. However, airlines who use the airport, particularly Ryanair, call the airport Düsseldorf (Weeze).

The airport serves the Weeze area, and also Düsseldorf. However, the airport has no direct transport to Düsseldorf.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

  • Corendon Airlines (Antalya) [begins 1 July]
  • Hamburg International (Palma de Mallorca)
  • Ryanair (Alghero, Alicante, Balaton, Bydgoszcz, Edinburgh, Fuerteventura, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, London-Stansted, Málaga, Marrakech, Milan-Bergamo, Palma de Mallorca, Rome-Ciampino, Seville, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Trapani, Växjö, Valencia, Venice-Treviso, Wroclaw)
  • Sky Airlines (Antalya)

[edit] Cargo airlines

  • SkyWings Cargo Airlines (Coventry)

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