Düsseldorf International Airport

Düsseldorf International Airport, is the third largest airport in Germany, located in Düsseldorf, the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

With 18.15 million passengers passing through in 2008, only Frankfurt International Airport and Munich International Airport served more passengers in Germany.

The airport serves as the main hub for the airline LTU and as an important secondary hub for Lufthansa. Lufthansa offers about 300 flights per day (53 destinations) from or to Düsseldorf. Starting in May 2008, Lufthansa will also re-launch long-haul operations from the airport. The airport's 70 hosted airlines support flights to 186 non-stop-destinations on all continents.
The airport has up to 750 takeoffs and landings per day.

Düsseldorf International Airport is located about 9 km (5.6 mi) from the center of Düsseldorf, Germany, and is the primary airport for the Rhein-Ruhr region -- the largest urban area in Germany and among the largest metropolitan areas of the world.

Düsseldorf International has two runways, which are 3,000 m and 2,700 m long. There are plans to extend the 3,000 m runway to 3,600 m, but the city of Ratingen, which lies in the approach path of the runway, is blocking them.

107 airplane parking positions are available. The current terminal building is capable of handling up to 22 million passengers per year. However, due to an agreement with residents in nearby Ratingen (the so called Angerlandvergleich), this capacity may not be reached within the next few years, as aircraft movements are restricted.

Düsseldorf International Airport is able to handle the new superjumbo Airbus A380 aircraft. On November 12, 2006 the first A380 landed in Düsseldorf as part of a Lufthansa promotion flight.

Lufthansa is planning to use Düsseldorf International as the diversion airport for A380 in case of bad weather in Frankfurt.

Owners of the airport are:

• 50% Landeshauptstadt (state capital) Düsseldorf
• 50% Airport Partners GmbH (Ownership of Airport Partners GmbH: 40% Hochtief AirPort GmbH, 20% Hochtief AirPort Capital KGaA, 40% Dublin Airport Authority plc (through its wholly owned subsidiary Aer Rianta International cpt))