Baden Airpark

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Baden Airpark
Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden
IATA: FKB – ICAO: EDSB
Summary
Airport type Commercial
Operator Baden-Airpark GmbH
Location Baden-Baden, Germany
Elevation AMSL 408 ft / 124 m
Coordinates 48°46′45.7″N 08°04′49.8″E / 48.779361, 8.0805
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
03/21 10,800 3,300 Asphalt

Baden Airpark (IATA: FKB, ICAO: EDSB), or officially Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, is an international airport located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, 40 km (25 miles) south of Karlsruhe, 15 km (9 miles) west of Baden-Baden and 55 km (35 miles) north of Strasbourg, France.

As of 2004 it is the 2nd-largest airport in Baden-Württemberg (after Stuttgart Airport), and the 18th-largest in Germany with 970,000 passengers per year.

[edit] History

Baden Airpark was a Canadian military base and airport, CFB Baden-Soellingen, from 1953 until 1993. The newly founded Baden Airpark GmbH took over the airport in 1995 and the first commercial flight took place on May 17, 1997 to Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Technically the airport is just a part of Baden Airpark, which also includes facilities for both business and leisure. The latter includes an 18-hole golf course and an enclosed ice rink (both originally part of the Canadian base). From that time stems the name Baden Söllingen, which locals use to denote the airport.

[edit] Public ground transportation

The airport can be reached by different public local bus links from the Baden-Baden train station and Rastatt train station. Besides that there are regular long distance bus services from Offenburg, Freiburg, Strasbourg, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

The taxi fare to Baden-Baden is about 24€.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

  • airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg)
  • Blue Wings (Antalya)
  • Hamburg International (Ankara, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South)
  • Ryanair (Alicante, Dublin, Girona, London-Stansted, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta, Valencia)
  • Sky Airlines (Antalya)
  • SunExpress (Antalya)
  • TUIfly (Antalya, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodos, Tenerife-South)
  • Tunisair (Monastir)

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