FSX – Scenery Dortmund Airport EDLW

FSX – Scenery Dortmund Airport EDLW. Dortmund Airport (IATA: DTM, ICAO: EDLW), is a minor international airport located 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is mainly used for low-cost and charter flights and served approximately 2.3 million passengers in 2008. Dortmund Airport serves the eastern Rhine-Ruhr area, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany. The nearest major international airport is Düsseldorf Airport approx. 70 km (43 mi) to the southwest.

From late 2000 onwards, Dortmund Airport has experienced a drastic increase in air traffic. In the 1990s weekly service had been generally restricted to a few turboprop flights to destinations within Germany, as well as occasional charter flights to warm-weather destinations. Since 2000, several new airlines have commenced service to Dortmund, many with mainline jets. Most of the air traffic today is by low cost airlines operating Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 family series aircraft to warm-weather destinations and business centres.

The first mass carrier at Dortmund Airport was Air Berlin, which began flights to London, Milan, and Vienna in 2002, supplementing its leisure routes to the Mediterranean. easyJet made Dortmund a hub in 2004, and Germanwings followed in 2007. Air Berlin eventually ceased most non-leisure routes from Dortmund in 2005, but easyJet and Germanwings have taken over in this role. However easyJet cancelled four of five destinations in 2012.

Since 2006 it has been carrying the name “Dortmund Airport 21”, in reference to the fact that Dortmund’s utility company, DSW21, is its major shareholder.

The airport’s master plan consists of the following elements: Increasing normal operating hours by one hour at night (to 23:00h), with an additional one hour window in the morning and at night for exceptions, lengthening the runway to 2800 metres, expanding the terminal and its infrastructure, improving the motorway connections and directly connecting the airport to mass transit.

I built the airport using ADEX Ver 01.61.5298.28366, Istant Scenery 3.0 Google Earth and Luftfahrthandbuch Deutschland, AIP GERMANY. By Klaus-Peter Kniffka

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