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Dresden Airport
Airport Directory » Germany » Dresden » Dresden AirportDresden Airport (IATA: DRS, ICAO: EDDC), once known as Flughafen Dresden-Klotzsche in German, is the international airport of Dresden, Germany. It is turn up in Klotzsche, a land of Dresden some 12 klicks (7.5 mi) northward of the town center.
In 2008, 1,860,364 riders passed through the airport, an increase of 0.3% over the previous yr and a put down for the airport. In the same yr, there were 36,968 takeoffs and landings, an increase of 2.3% over the previous yr.
Dresden Airport is place of EADS EFW a business unit of EADS. Lufthansa Airport Services Dresden GmbH (LASD), a foot soldier of Lufthansa, furnishes rider services at the airport.
History
The airport was opened to commercial traffic on 11 July 1935.
Though be after as a commercial airport, its importance to the armed forces increased dramatically during the coming after yr in the Third Reich. During World War II it was solely used for armed forces intentions. Attempts to destruct constructions and equipment before the Allied military personnel is able to busy Dresden neglected due to the opposition of polite airport employees.
During the coming after yr, the airport was used as an educational activity center for the Soviet armed forces. It was reopened for commercial traffic on 16 June 1957. In 1959 international air traffic restarted, principally to states of the Eastern Bloc.
Between 1955 and 1961, the East German authority make up one's mind to evolve its own air power industry centered on Dresden. Although this development in the end neglected, it increased the importance of Klotzsche Airport well, and has characteristic the project and atmospheric state of the airport right up until currently.
After German reunion, the airport was spread out and voyages to western European capitals were added. Traffic increased sevenfold during the 1st one-half of the 1990s and a 2nd depot was opened in 1995.
In 2001 the current depot was added. This was reconstructed from a depot once used as an assembly hallway by the aircraft industry.
Ground transport
Public transport
Dresden Airport train station is located in the cellar of the depot construction. It is assisted by railroad train on line S2 of the Dresden S-Bahn, which supply a half-hourly relate to Dresden-Neustadt and Dresden Hauptbahnhof stations in the center of Dresden, with journey clips of 13 and 23 min. severally. On weekdays the railroad train elongate to the cities of Heidenau and Pirna.
Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) bus path 77 supplies a connection from the airport to DVB tram path 7, which provides an alternative path to central Dresden. DVB bus path 97 connects the airport to the land of Hellerau. Regional bus path 425 links the airport with the cities of Boxdorf and Radebeul.
The airport is within the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe's Dresden duty zone, as is central Dresden, and a individual ticket (now priced at €1.80) is valid on the S-Bahn, trams and coaches within that zone. Other duty zones cover the ringing cities as far as Meissen and the Czech mete. Tickets is able to be obtained at ticket vending machine in the station, at the bus halt, or at the airport infocenter on the Arrivals stage of the depot.
Road transport
Dresden Airport is located some 12 klicks (7.5 mi) northward of the center of Dresden. The direct journey, on town streets, takes approximately 20 min.. The current cab menu changes from €16 to €18.
The airport is assisted by an adjacent junction on the A4 Autobahn, which by-passes central Dresden on its path from Aachen, on the Dutch mete, to Görlitz, on the Polish mete. Junctions in the Dresden area link the A4 to the A13, to Berlin, and the A17, to the Czech boundary line and Prague.
At the airport, there is a multi-storey auto parkland with about 1,500 infinites, related to the depot construction by a glass-covered footbridge. Additionally, there are 3 long-stay auto parklands, and a short-stay auto parkland right next to the depot access.
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