Mönchengladbach Airport (, formerly ''Düsseldorf Mönchengladbach Airport'', ) is a small regional

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

located northeast of

Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Netherlands, Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, th ...

and west of

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. It is co-owned by the company which also runs

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(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

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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

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with

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aeroplanes providing up to 24 weekly flights in each direction. From 1996 to 1999, the British Airline Debonair operated services to

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, and when Debonair was put into administration, the services were taken over by

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who also operated services to

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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

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to match the new one of its majority shareholder

Airlines and destinations

Starting on 6 November 2023 Franconia Air Service offers domestic scheduled flights to

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. The airport is otherwise dominated by

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. Additionally, there are few business-charter passenger flights. The next major international airport is

only away to the east.

References

Development Association Airport MönchengladbachAir Berlin BAe146-200 departing from runway 13

External links

Official website
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dusseldorf-Monchengladbach Airport

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Airports established in 1955

Airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...

1955 establishments in West Germany

History

Airlines and destinations

See also

References

External links