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Hamburg Airport (IATA code: HAM) is the international airport of Hamburg, which is the second-largest city in Germany.
In November 2016 the airport was officially renamed Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt, to honour the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
HAM serves as a hub for Eurowings and focus cities for Condor, Ryanair, and TUI fly Deutschland.
The airport is located 8.5 km (5.3 mi) north of Hamburg city center, in the Fuhlsbüttel quarter.
The airport is just 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Hamburg city centre, and 8 km (5.0 mi) south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel.
Numerous retail stores (including duty free)
Numerous food outlets, including fast-food, coffee shops and sit down meal options
Showers
Free Wi-Fi
Information counters
Pharmacy
Conference rooms
Duty Free Shops
Luggage & storage lockers
Smoking allowed areas
ATMs and bank services (including currency exchange)
Casino
Currency exchange
Children’s play area and baby care rooms
The Airport Lounge: Access available for a fee. Open 5:15AM – 9:00PM. Located within the Airport Plaza, Airside, Level 3. Complimentary facilities include air con, drinks (including alcoholic), children's play area, flight monitors, WiFi, showers, newspapers and magazines, TV and smoking area.
Lufthansa Business Lounge: Located in Terminal 2 , Airside, 2nd Floor and open 5:00AM – 9:00PM. Access only for Lufthansa passengers with elite status. Complimentary facilities include air con, drinks (including alcoholic), premium buffet, flight monitors, WiFi, newspapers and magazines, TV, printers/copiers/fax, and smoking area.
Did you know that you can buy lounge passes for Hamburg Airport with Alternative Airlines? You can purchase them for the Airport Lounge at the Airport Plaza.
Hamburg airport has two runways: Runway 15/33 and Runway 05/23.
The airport has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, across three buildings. They are connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area, which extends through the lower levels of all three of the terminal building. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level and the ground floor is arrivals.
The Airport Plaza is home to the central security check, as well as shops, restaurants, lounges and other service facilities. It also where passengers will find the the S-Bahn station (suburban railway).
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 hosts international and local flights and houses most of the airlines including those from the Oneworld and SkyTeam alliances.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2 hosts international and local flights andhouses Eurowings and Lufthansa with its Star Alliance partners, amongst others.
Airline | Destinations |
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Aegean Airlines | Athens |
Aer Lingus | Dublin |
Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo |
airBaltic | Riga |
Air Europa | Charter: Gran Canaria, Tenerife–South |
Air France | Paris–Charles de Gaulle |
Air Malta | Malta |
Air Serbia | Seasonal: Belgrade |
AtlasGlobal | Seasonal: Istanbul |
Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
Blue Air | Bucharest |
British Airways | Friedrichshafen, London–Heathrow |
Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
Bulgarian Air Charter | Seasonal: Burgas, Varna |
Condor | Agadir, Antalya, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Kalamata, Kos, La Palma, Malta, Olbia, Rhodes, Zakynthos |
Corendon Airlines | Seasonal: Antalya, Izmir |
Corendon Airlines Europe | Seasonal: Heraklion, Hurghada |
Czech Airlines | Czech Airlines |
easyJet | Basel/Mulhouse, Edinburgh, Geneva, London–Gatwick, Manchester, Venice Seasonal: Bordeaux, Nice, Salzburg |
Emirates | Dubai–International |
Eurowings | Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bodrum, Budapest, Catania, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Lanzarote, London–Heathrow, Milan–Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Nuremberg, Oslo–Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Rome–Fiumicino, Salzburg, Stockholm–Arlanda, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki, Venice, Vienna, Zurich Seasonal: Adana, Antalya, Bari, Bastia, Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, La Palma, Marsa Alam, Monastir, Naples, Olbia, Reykjavik–Keflavík, Rhodes, Rijeka, Split, Tenerife–South, Tunis, Zadar, Zagreb |
Finnair | Helsinki |
Flye | Birmingham |
FlyEgypt | Seasonal charter: Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm El Sheikh |
Freebird Airlines | Seasonal: Antalya |
HOP! | Nantes |
Iberia | Madrid |
Icelandair | Madrid |
Iberia | Reykjavik–Keflavík |
Iberia | Madrid |
Iran Air | Tehran–Imam Khomeini |
KLM | Amsterdam |
Level | Vienna |
LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw–Chopin |
Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
Luxair | Luxembourg, Saarbrücken |
Norwegian Air Shuttle | Gran Canaria, Málaga, Oslo–Gardermoen, Tenerife–South |
Pegasus Airlines | Ankara, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir Seasonal: Antalya |
Qeshm Air | Tabriz, Tehran–Imam Khomeini |
Rhein-Neckar Air | Mannheim |
Rossiya | Saint Petersburg |
Ryanair | Alicante, Barcelona, Bergamo, Dublin, Edinburgh, Faro, Gdańsk, Gran Canaria, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Málaga, Manchester, Marrakesh, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Seville, Sofia, Treviso Seasonal: Sandefjord, Thessaloniki, Zadar |
Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal: Bergen |
SunExpress | Antalya, Izmir Seasonal: Dalaman |
SunExpress Deutschland | Seasonal: Burgas, Varna |
Swiss International Air Lines | Zurich |
Sylt Air | Seasonal: Sylt |
Tailwind Airlines | Seasonal charter: Bodrum |
TAP Air Portugal | Lisbon |
TAROM | Bucharest |
TUI fly Deutschland | Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Boa Vista, Heraklion, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Sal |
Tunisair | Djerba, Enfidha, Monastir, Tunis |
Turkish Airlines | Istanbul
Seasonal: Adana, Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir |
Vueling | Barcelona |
Widerøe | Bergen |
Wizz Air | Gdańsk, Kiev–Zhuliany, Kutaisi (begins 20 December 2019), Skopje, Varna |
Busiest Domestic Routes (2017)
Rank | Destination | Passengers | Airlines |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Munich | 1,738,973 | Eurowings, Lufthansa |
2 | Frankfurt | 1,394,973 | Lufthansa |
3 | Stuttgart | 690,451 | Eurowings |
4 | Düsseldorf | 607,141 | Eurowings |
5 | Cologne/Bonn | 486,034 | Eurowings |
Busiest International Routes (2017)
Rank | Destination | Passengers | Airlines |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands | 982,336 | Condor Flugdienst, Eurowings, Ryanair, TUI fly Deutschland |
2 | Zurich, Switzerland | 707,970 | Eurowings, Swiss International Air Lines |
3 | Vienna, Austria | 590,638 | Austrian Airlines, Eurowings |
4 | London - Heathrow, UK | 580,721 | British Airways, Eurowings |
5 | Paris - Charles de Gaulle, France | 483,763 | Air France, Eurowings |
By Train
Deutsche Bahn operates a service, S-Bahn (route S1), every ten minutes between the airport, Ohlsdorf, Wandsbek, Hamburg central station, Altona, Blankenese and Wedel. Going towards the airport, S1 trains split at Ohlsdorf station, with some services going onwards to the airport and others going to Poppenbütte.
By Bus
The airport is linked by local bus routes to nearby areas of Hamburg, as well as offering regular coach services to the cities of Kiel and Neumünster.
By Car
By road, the airport can be easily reached from motorway A7 using the state highway B433 (the third ring road).