Strasbourg Airport (french: Aéroport de Strasbourg; german: Straßburg Flughafen; gsw-FR, D'r Strossburi(g) Flughàfa) is a minor

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located in

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and 10 km (6.2 miles) west-southwest of

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, both ''

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'' of the

Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin (; Alsatian: ''Unterelsàss'', ' or '; traditional german: links=no, Niederrhein; en, Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lo ...

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'' in the

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

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'' of France. In 2018 the airport served 1,297,177 passengers.

Decline in airport passenger traffic

There was a decline in traffic after

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suspended service in 2004 after a court declared that the airline had received illegal subsidies from the airport. After the opening of the first phase of the new

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line from

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, there was a significant reduction in plane usage, but since 2011, traffic at the airport has grown. However,

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ceased to operate the route between Strasbourg and

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, ), also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG, is the principal airport serving the French capital, Paris ( and its metropolitan area), and the largest intern ...

on 2 April 2013, transferring passengers onto rail services operated as ''tgvair''. The opening of the second phase of the LGV Est in July 2016 further reduced travel time to Paris to 1:48 by train.

Facilities

Aéroport Strasbourg Entzheim SXB avril 2015-02

The airport consists of a single two-storey passenger terminal building. The ground floor features the check-in areas as well as the arrivals facilities with three baggage claim belts. The upper floor contains the international and domestic departure lounges and gates. The terminal is equipped with four gates that have jet-bridges as well as some walk-boarding stands.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Ground transportation

The airport is served by the ''Entzheim-Aéroport'' train station, on the line from Strasbourg to Molsheim.Halte ferroviaire de Entzheim-Aéroport
TER Grand Est The trip to

Gare de Strasbourg Strasbourg-Ville is the main railway station in the city of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. It is the eastern terminus of the Paris-Est–Strasbourg-Ville railway. The current core building, an example of historicist architecture of the Wilhelmini ...

takes 7 to 12 minutes.

Accidents and incidents

* Air Inter Flight 148, a flight inbound from

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, France, struck a mountain side near

Mont Sainte-Odile Mont Sainte-Odile (german: 'Odilienberg' or Ottilienberg; called Allitona in the 8th century) is a 764-metre-high peak in the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France, immediately west of Barr. The mountain is named after Saint Odile. It has a mo ...

on 20 January 1992 on descent during the final leg of the approach for Strasbourg's runway 05, killing 87 people.

References

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