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Airport information for Rotterdam Airport Country: Netherlands Location: Rotterdam Coordinates: 51.57.00N / 004.26.00E IATA Code: RTM Timezone: GMT +1 Direct flights form Rotterdam Airport Direct flights to Rotterdam Airport Find connecting flights to Rotterdam Airport Find connecting flights from Rotterdam Airport

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Rotterdam Airport (once (Dutch): Vliegveld Zestienhoven), (IATA: RTM, ICAO: EHRD) turn up 3 NM (5.6 kilometre; 3.5 mi) northward northwest Rotterdam, is the Netherlands' 3rd biggest airport, coming after Eindhoven Airport (measure out in riders). From the airport, there are among others daily services to London, Hamburg and charter voyages. The airport dealt over 1,150,400 riders in 2007.

History

After World War II it was make up one's mind by the Dutch authority that a 2nd national airport next to Schiphol was take. The town of Rotterdam had an airport before the conflict, Waalhaven airport, nevertheless, this was destruct to preclude it from being used by the Germans. Reconstruction of this airport wasn't realistic, so a new place had to be constitute.

A new place was constitute, the Zestienhoven polder. Construction of the airport set out in August 1955 and the airport was officially opened in October 1956. Not long after the opening several big international air hose such as Swissair, Lufthansa and Air France set about functioning from Rotterdam. However, in the 1970's programmes were do to either close or travel to airport to do appartment for houses and the unsure hereafter do a doldrums in the airport's development and many operators go forth. For about 30 yr the airport face up closing, but the economic development in the 1990's do an increase in riders once again and in 2001 it was make up one's mind that the airport's current place shall be back up for at smallest a century.

The longest hold out path, to London Heathrow, now functioned by KLM Cityhopper, shall be suspended in favor of the enlargement of a SkyTeam-hub at London Heathrow. This will mark the finish of KLM functioning from Rotterdam. Most voyages currently are functioned by regional turbo-propeller plane aircraft such as the Fokker 50, Dash eight and ATR aircraft and little mainline jet plane such as the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 series. There is also a just sum of money of business organisation air power.

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