Hannover-Langenhagen Airport - Langenhagen Today

Langenhagen Today

While in the early years most of the airport's traffic was running through Frankfurt Airport, today many European and CIS destinations are served directly. There are services to most European capitals and major cities as well as to major holiday destinations such as Majorca (Spain) or Egypt. In the 1990s trials to establish intercontinental services to the United States and Canada were stopped because of low passenger numbers. Since the end of Cold War Hannover International has become Germany's major airport for services to countries of the former USSR next to Frankfurt International.

Hannover-Langenhagen Airport is the sixth base of Germanwings in Germany, after Berlin Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Hamburg and Stuttgart. There are also a number of low-cost airlines offering service to the airport, the most notable one being TUIfly, which has its base of operations at Hannover Airport. However, TUIfly has dramatically reduced services in 2008 and 2009, and passed all its non-traditional holiday routes to Air Berlin late in 2009.

Hannover airport has struggled to generate increased demand in recent years, possibly due to an apparent reluctance or inability to entice Europe’s low-cost carriers to serve the airport. Although traffic grew satisfactorily during the late 90s, during the last decade, there has been little growth. In both 2007 and 2008, traffic was down less than 1%, but in 2009 it fell by almost 12%.

Langenhagen is one of very few German airports which are open 24 hours a day, but in practice there are very few flights between 11pm and 4am.