Mönchengladbach Airport (german: Verkehrslandeplatz Mönchengladbach, formerly ''Düsseldorf Mönchengladbach Airport'', ) is a small regional
airport located northeast
of
Mönchengladbach and west of
Düsseldorf. It is co-owned by the company which also runs
Düsseldorf Airport (70%) and the local utility company NVV AG (30%).
History
The British Army of the Rhine undertook an exercise in 1955, in accord with the then NATO-Strategy of quick reaction. They built a basic 'field-made' airfield on the grass-covered area for an air-landing-exercise on this site. On finishing this exercise, the British Army of the Rhine handed the area over to the Mayor of Mönchengladbach for use as an airfield. The airfield was taken into service as a small airstrip for gliders. A hangar was built in 1957, and the next year a control tower and passenger terminal were constructed. The construction of the
runway that is still used today began in 1970, and it was completed in 1973.
From 1996 until 2002, the Belgian airline
VLM operated direct services to
London City Airport with
Fokker 50
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aeroplanes providing up to 24 weekly flights in each direction. From 1996 to 1999, the British Airline
Debonair
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* Debonair (airline), a British airline that operated from 1996 to 1999
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operated services to
London Luton Airport, and when Debonair was put into administration, the services were taken over by
European Air Express
European Air Express was a regional airline based in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
History
The airline was established in 1999 and started operations in February 1999. It was wholly owned by Vibro Beteiligungs and had 80 employees (at March 2007) ...
who also operated services to
Munich and
Sylt/Westerland until the airline ceased operations in 2007.
In 2016, the airport underwent a rebranding and changed its name from ''Düsseldorf Mönchengladbach Airport'' to just Mönchengladbach Airport and also changed its
corporate design
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to match the new one of its majority shareholder
Düsseldorf Airport.
Airlines and destinations
Starting on 6 November 2023
Franconia Air Service
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The three administrative regions of Lower, Middle and Upper Fra ...
offers domestic scheduled flights to
Nuremberg Airport.
The airport is otherwise dominated by
general aviation. Additionally, there are few business-charter passenger flights. The next major international airport is
Düsseldorf Airport only away to the east.
See also
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Transport in Germany
As a densely populated country in a central location in Europe and with a developed economy, Germany has a dense transport infrastructure.
One of the first limited-access highway systems in the world to have been built, the extensive German A ...
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List of airports in Germany
References
Development Association Airport MönchengladbachAir Berlin BAe146-200 departing from runway 13
:This article is a translation of the German language article "Flughafen Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach" in the German Wikipedia. (as it was on February 19, 2005)
External links
Official website
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Mönch
Airports established in 1955
Buildings and structures in North Rhine-Westphalia
Airport
1955 establishments in West Germany