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Frankfurt–Hahn Airport (German: Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn, IATA: HHN, ICAO: EDFH) is an international airport in the municipality of Hahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Frankfurt–Hahn Airport Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn
IATA: HHN ICAO: EDFH
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn GmbH
Serves	Rhineland-Palatinate
Location	Lautzenhausen, Germany
Focus city for	Ryanair
Elevation AMSL	1,649 ft / 503 m
Coordinates	49°56′54″N 007°15′51″E
Website	hahn-airport.de
Map
HHN Location of airport in Rhineland-Palatinate Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate HHN HHN (Germany) Show map of Germany HHN HHN (Europe) Show map of Europe
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 03/21 12,467 3,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 1.400.000[1]
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The airport is 10 km (6.2 mi) from the town of Kirchberg and 20 km (12 mi) from both Simmern and Traben-Trarbach. The airport is equidistant between Frankfurt and Luxembourg – about 120 km (75 mi) to each city by road. The closest major cities are Koblenz at about 70 km (43 mi) and Mainz at about 90 km (56 mi). The airport served 1.4 million passengers in 2019, down from 2.60 million in 2016.[1][2] Most airlines that operate commercial passenger service to and from the airport are low-cost carriers. It is also a prominent cargo airport as a result of its location and 24-hour operating licence.[3] It had a turnover of 156,000 tons of cargo in 2019.[1]

The airport is 82.5% owned by SWIFT Conjoy, a company based in Frankfurt am Main.[4] and 17.5% owned by the state of Hesse.

History

Military base

During the Cold War, at which time an invasion of West Germany was a possibility, Hahn Air Base was a frontline air base, and home of the United States Air Force 50th Tactical Fighter Wing (now the 50th Space Wing), in various designations, as part of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). It was one of several USAFE bases in Germany within 100 kilometres (62 mi) of each other including Zweibrücken, Ramstein Air Base, Sembach, Bitburg Air Base, Spangdahlem Air Base, and Rhein-Main Air Base. These air bases were well situated to reach all locations within Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Hahn Air Base had more than 13,000 people and three squadrons of F-16 tactical fighters.^{[citation needed]} At the end of the Cold War, the United States was left with a huge excess capacity of expensive airfields in Europe.

As a result, the squadrons at the base were inactivated: the 496th Tactical Fighter Squadron was inactivated on 15 May 1991, the 313th Tactical Fighter Squadron was inactivated on 1 July 1991, and the 10th Tactical Fighter Squadron was inactivated on 30 September 1991. The 50th Tactical Fighter Wing was inactivated on 30 September 1991 and then activated as the 50th Space Wing at Falcon AFB (now Schriever Air Force Base) in Colorado on 30 January 1992. The inactivations had a significant effect on the local economy.[5]

Most of Hahn Air Base was returned to civil German authorities on 30 September 1993, though USAFE retained a small portion as a radio communications site until its final return to German authorities in 2012. It is still frequently used for military charters operated by, amongst others, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines.

The German government decided to turn Hahn Air Base into a civil airport with the goal of reducing traffic to Frankfurt International Airport. One of the main investors in the development of the airport was Fraport AG, the operator of Frankfurt International Airport, which received a 65% ownership stake in the airport.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996, the faculty and police training school of the Rheinland-Pfalz State Police were combined at a new joint facility located at the air base's former housing area.^{[citation needed]}

Name controversy

In 2001, Ryanair began flying to the airport, using it as a second base for its European operations.[6] At the request of Ryanair, the name of the airport was officially changed from Hahn Airport to Frankfurt–Hahn Airport. Lufthansa began legal proceedings against Ryanair in 2002, claiming the usage of "Frankfurt" in the name to be false advertising. Ryanair was allowed to keep the name but was forced to clarify in its advertising that the airport is actually 120 kilometers (75 miles) by road from Frankfurt.[7]

Losses and ownership transfers

In 2003, the airport reported a loss of €17 million, compared to €20 million in 2002.[8]

In 2007, Etihad Cargo switched its German freighter services from Frankfurt International airport to Frankfurt-Hahn airport.[9]

Effective 1 January 2009, Fraport sold its 65% interest in the airport to the government of Rhineland-Palatinate for the symbolic price of €1. The airport had been losing money and Fraport did not want to continue to fund losses. The transaction increased the stake owned by the government to 82.5%.[10] Also in 2009, a cargo flight departing from Hahn using the Antonov 225 made the world record for the heaviest single piece of air cargo, a 189.98 tonne generator for a Fossil-fuel power station in Armenia.[11]

In 2013, Etihad Cargo, a major customer of the airport, announced the relocation of its cargo operations from Hahn to Frankfurt Airport.[12]

In January 2014, the airport announced it had accumulated debts of €125 million while passenger and cargo traffic were decreasing.[13] The same year, the government pledged €80 million to the airport so that it would avoid bankruptcy.[14] In February 2014, security staff at the airport initiated a strike action.[15] In the summer of 2014, Ryanair reduced capacity on several routes for and removed 3 of 9 aircraft based at the airport.[16]

In March 2015, Yangtze River Express, the largest freight customer of the airport with 4 cargo destinations and accounting for 50,000 of the airport's 130,000 tons of annual volume, announced it would cease its cargo operations at Frankfurt–Hahn Airport in favor of Munich Airport.[17] Months earlier, Qatar Airways and Aeroflot had also ceased their cargo operations at the airport.[18]

In June 2016, the cargo subsidiary of Air France–KLM announced it would shut down its cargo reloading point at the airport, which was used to collect freight and transfer it to Paris by truck.[19] In August 2016, RAF-Avia from Latvia announced basing two aircraft at the airport to operate ad-hoc charter flights.[20] Also in June 2016, the government of Rhineland-Palatinate announced the sale of its 82.5% interest in the airport to Shanghai Yiqian Trading Company.[21] However, the deal fell apart a month later after the buyer failed to get approval to make the payment.[22]

In 2017, Suparna, formerly known as Yangtze River Express, began operating a 747-400F at the airport and AirBridgeCargo and Etihad also expanded cargo operations.[23] In August 2017, HNA Group, a Fortune Global 500 company based in China acquired the 82.5% stake in the airport owned by the government of Rhineland-Palatinate for €15.1 million.[24][25] In conjunction with the acquisition, the European Commission agreed to cover up to €25.3 million of losses between 2017 and 2021 while HNA makes improvements to the airport.[26]

In February 2018, Ryanair announced the shift of part of its operations from Hahn to Frankfurt Airport, where it opened a base in 2017. One of five aircraft were moved to Frankfurt Airport and four routes were cut at Frankfurt-Hahn.[27] A year later, Ryanair announced further major cuts with a reduction to just 16 routes — from over 40 in earlier years — for the 2019/2020 winter season.[28] In July 2020, Ryanair announced plans to close their Hahn base by November 2020 after a labour union dispute. Hahn has been Ryanair's second base in continental Europe, inaugurated in 2002.[29] However, as of September 2020, no final decision had been made.^{[needs update]}

The airport filed for bankruptcy on 19 October 2021,[30] in June 2022, it was sold to a German investor.[31][4]

Infrastructure

Terminals

The airport consists of two passenger terminals and one cargo terminal. The passenger terminals, designated A and B, include shops and restaurants including a McDonald's.[32] The apron has 11 stands for mid-sized aircraft, such as the Boeing 737, which are reached on foot. The cargo apron has 3 stands for large aircraft such as the Boeing 747-8F.

Runway

Frankfurt–Hahn has a long runway of 3,800 metres (12,467 ft) in the direction of 03/21. This, combined with a large apron, allows it to handle some of the world's biggest aircraft such as the Antonov An-124 or the Boeing Dreamlifter. While the Antonov is a frequent visitor, the Dreamlifter landed only twice at the airport, both times in 2010. It has an Instrument Landing System available to both sides, with runway 21 being category 3 approved; low-visibility conditions are a frequent problem at the airport, especially during autumn and winter.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Hahn:[33]

Airlines	Destinations
Air Serbia	Niš
FlyOne	Seasonal: Chișinău
Ryanair	Barcelona, Bari, Bergamo, Catania, Dublin, Fès, Kerry, London–Stansted, Nador, Palermo, Porto, Seville, Treviso, Zagreb Seasonal: Alicante,[33] Cagliari, Chania, Corfu,[34] Faro,[33] Girona, Ibiza, Lanzarote,[33] Málaga,[33] Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Compostela, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Trapani, Zadar
Wizz Air	Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Skopje, Sofia, Timișoara, Tirana, Tuzla, Varna Seasonal: Belgrade[35]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Silk Way West Airlines[36]	Baku, Vienna
Suparna Airlines[37][38]	Wuxi, Xi'an

The airport is also used by further cargo carriers on an irregular basis, e. g. for ad-hoc charter or military operations.[39]

Statistics

	Passengers[2][40]
2004	2,751,585
2005	3,076,823
2006	3,704,633
2007	4,014,898
2008	3,940,159
2009	3,793,710
2010	3,493,451
2011	2,894,109
2012	2,790,961
2013	2,667,402
2014	2,447,140
2015	2,667,000
2016	2,609,156
2017	2,472,198
2018	2,092,868
2019	1,496,362[1]

Ground transportation

Coach

Hahn is served by several, mostly private, coach operators that run regular services to Frankfurt am Main (105 minutes, via Frankfurt Airport, Terminal 2), Cologne (135 minutes), Luxembourg (105 minutes) and several other cities in western Germany and the region.

Rail

The airport has no railway station. The nearest train station is in Traben-Trarbach (20 kilometers by road, 10 kilometers as the crow flies), the terminus of the Pünderich–Traben-Trarbach railway. The nearest long-distance railway stations are Bullay (15 kilometers northwest, on the Koblenz–Trier–Saarbrücken line), and Idar-Oberstein (26 kilometers south) on the Mainz–Bad Kreuznach–Saarbrücken line. Frequent buses also run to the main railway station of nearby cities, the closest being Mainz (70 minutes, 60 km or 37 mi to the east) and Koblenz (65 minutes, 50 kilometers northeast). Frankfurt–Hahn Airport is almost equidistant from Frankfurt and Luxembourg.

Car

The nearest Autobahn connections are approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) to the west (A1) or east (A 61). Parking and car rental are available at the airport.

See also

• Transport in Germany
• List of airports in Germany

References

External links

Media related to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for EDFH at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for HHN at Aviation Safety Network

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn

Der Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn (IATA: HHN[3], ICAO: EDFH[4]) ist ein seit 1993 aus US-Militärverwendung konvertierter ziviler Flughafen im Hunsrück in Rheinland-Pfalz. Zur Metropole Frankfurt am Main, auf die sich der Name bezieht, besteht keine spezielle Verbindung und auch keine räumliche Nähe (Straßenentfernung etwa 125 km).

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- [en] Frankfurt–Hahn Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Fráncfort-Hahn

El aeropuerto de Fráncfort-Hahn se encuentra situado en el centro de Europa, en las inmediaciones de Lautzenhausen, Renania-Palatinado (Alemania). Se trata de una antigua base aérea estadounidense a la que la compañía irlandesa de bajo coste Ryanair decidió dar un "nuevo uso comercial" valiéndose de su estratégica situación geográfica. A pesar de su nombre, el aeropuerto se encuentra a aproximadamente 120 km al oeste de la ciudad de Fráncfort del Meno, en el estado de Renania-Palatinado y no en Hesse que es donde se encuentra Fráncfort del Meno.

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[fr] Aéroport de Francfort-Hahn

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[it] Aeroporto di Francoforte-Hahn

L'aeroporto di Francoforte-Hahn (in tedesco: Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn) è un aeroporto civile che si trova a 120 km da Francoforte ed è base di partenza per diversi voli low-cost, in particolare della compagnia Ryanair.

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[ru] Франкфурт-Хан

Аэропорт Франкфурт-Хан находится на западе Германии, в Рейнланд-Пфальце. Ближайший крупный город — Кобленц (70 км). Расстояние до Франкфурта и Люксембурга — примерно по 120 км.

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