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Airport in Hamburg, Germany

Hamburg Airport , known in German as Flughafen Hamburg, is a major international airport in Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany. Since November 2016 the airport has been named after the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. It is located north As of July 2017, it featured flights to more than 130 mostly European metropolitan and leisure destinations as well as two long haul routes to Dubai and Tehran. The airport is equipped to handle wide bodied aircraft including the Airbus A380. Hamburg's other airport, Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport where the Airbus factory is located, is not open to commercial traffic.

The airport was opened in January 1911 from private funding by the Hamburger Luftschiffhallen GmbH (HLG), making it the oldest international airport in the world to still be in operation and the second oldest airport in the country after Tempelhof Airport. The original site comprised 45 hectares, and during its early days was primarily used for airship flights. In 1913 the site was expanded to 60 hectares, the northern part being used for airship operations while the southeast area was used for fixed wing aircraft. During the First World War, the airship hangar was used extensively by the German military, until it was destroyed by fire in 1916. A few weeks later, it was officially announced that the airport was to be named after Helmut Schmidt, a former senator of Hamburg and chancellor of West Germany. On 10 November 2016, the airport was renamed Hamburg Airport Helmut Schmidt. In October 2016, Air Berlin announced the closure of its maintenance facilities at the airport, due to cost cutting and restructuring measures. In June 2017, easyJet announced it would close its base at Hamburg by March 2018 as part of a refocus on other base airports. While over half of the former services were cut, several routes remained in place as they are served from other easyJet bases. In October 2018, United Airlines announced the end of its seasonal service to Newark, leaving the airport with only three long haul routes, all to the Middle East, and no direct services to North America. The route was inaugurated by Continental Airlines back in 2005 and switched from year round to seasonal in 2017 Also in October 2018 Emirates switched one of the two daily flights from Dubai to A380 service. This was the first ever commercial A380 service to Hamburg. The second daily flight remains operated by Boeing 777 300ER aircraft. In January 2020, Ryanair also closed its Hamburg base due to airport operating costs, late delivery of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft, and its general downsizing of its German operations. On 4–5 November 2023, a hostage crisis caused by a custody dispute, wherein an armed man drove onto the tarmac with his 4 year old daughter in the car, temporarily halted flights at the airport.

Hamburg Airport originally covered Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to The main apron covers and features 54 parking positions; the passenger terminals provide 17 jet bridges. As of July 2016, the airport had only three routes served with wide body aircraft; however, during that year three gates were upgraded with double jet bridges to provide faster boarding and de boarding for large planes like the Airbus A380. The runways, taxiways and aprons can accommodate large aircraft, including the Airbus A380. Emirates replaced one Boeing 777 with A380 aircraft on the route.

Hamburg has two interconnected terminals, Terminal 1 (used by most airlines including those of Oneworld and SkyTeam) and Terminal 2 (Star Alliance), connected by the Airport Plaza and the baggage claim area that extends through the lower levels of all three buildings. In all buildings level 1 is the departure level with overall 44 departure gates, while level 0 is arrivals and also features ten additional bus gates. Terminal 2 (despite its name, the older facility) was completed in 1993, Terminal 1 was completed in 2005 and is highly similar to Terminal 2 in terms of design and size. The main buildings were designed by Gerkan, Marg and Partners. Both terminals have a high, curved ceiling designed to emulate the shape of a wing.

+ Busiest routes from Hamburg (2019) Rank Destination Passengers Operating Airlines 1 Munich 1,750,284 Eurowings, Lufthansa 2 Frankfurt 1,422,950 Lufthansa 3 London (all airports) 978,500 British Airways, easyJet, Eurowings, Ryanair 4 Palma de Mallorca 882,830 Condor, Eurowings, Ryanair 5 Stuttgart 737,285 Eurowings 6 Vienna 710,162 Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, LEVEL 7 Zürich 699,800 Eurowings, Swiss 8 Düsseldorf 524,114 Eurowings 9 Antalya 498,966 Condor, Corendon Airlines, Freebird Airlines, SunExpress 10 Amsterdam 477,618 Eurowings, KLM Total number of passengers embarking direct flights doubled (no connecting passengers).

The airport is around north of Hamburg city centre and south of Norderstedt in the borough of Fuhlsbüttel. S Bahn service S1, operated by Deutsche Bahn operates every ten minutes between the airport, Ohlsdorf, Wandsbek, Hamburg central station, Altona, Blankenese and Wedel. It is part of the HVV fare organisation offering tickets for all modes of public transportation in Hamburg. Going towards the airport, S1 trains split at Ohlsdorf station, with one portion going to the airport and the other going to Poppenbüttel.

By road, the airport can be reached from Federal Motorway A7 via Exit Schnelsen using the state motorway B433, which is Hamburg's third ring road.

The airport is also linked by some local bus routes of HVV to nearby areas as well as regular coach services to the cities of Kiel and Neumünster.