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The shareholders' meeting of Dortmund Airport has prematurely extended the contract with Managing Director Ludger van Bebber until September 2030. Van Bebber, who has held the position since 2020, will thus lead the airport for another five years. The industrial engineer was previously Managing Director of Weeze Airport for a long time and is committed
Dortmund Airport is delighted that three young employees have successfully completed their training. After two and a half years of intensive training, Celine Schäfers and Luis Prieto Gomez passed their exams as service clerks in air traffic. David Hauschild completed his training as an IT system electronics technician, which was carried out in cooperation with DOKOM21. Airport Managing Director Ludger van Bebber
After more than a decade of legal disputes, the process to extend the operating hours of Dortmund Airport has been completed. On August 23, 2024, the Higher Administrative Court of Münster dismissed the lawsuit filed by three private individuals against the second supplementary permit and thus declared the permit legally binding. With the expiry of the deadline for a
Dortmund Airport closed the 2024/2025 Christmas holidays with a total of 145.695 passengers, a decrease of 4,9 percent compared to the previous year. The airport cites the fact that the Christmas holidays were one day shorter as the reason for the decrease. Nevertheless, individual flight connections proved to be particularly successful due to high capacity utilization.
The Turkish low-cost airline Pegasus Airlines is expanding its route network from Dortmund Airport and will include the popular holiday region of Antalya in its flight schedule from the 2025 summer flight schedule. From April 15, the Turkish Riviera will be served up to five times a week from Dortmund. The new connection complements the existing offer to
Dortmund Airport closed 2024 with a historic record result: 3.132.707 passengers used the airport, which corresponds to an increase of 6,8 percent compared to the previous year. Compared to the pre-Corona year 2019, passenger volume also grew by 15,2 percent. The fourth quarter in particular stood out with an increase of 27 percent,
Pegasus Airlines is strengthening its presence at Dortmund Airport and expanding its route network from the 2025 summer flight schedule. In addition to the existing connection to the Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen hub, there will also be direct flights to Antalya from April 15, 2025. Up to five flights a week to the popular Turkish Riviera are intended to meet the growing demand for travel in
With a new passenger record and far-reaching modernization projects, Dortmund Airport is looking back on an eventful year in 2024. The most recent meeting of the Supervisory Board took stock of the traffic figures and looked ahead to the coming year. Despite the challenges that arose in particular from restrictions in the flight operations of Ryanair and Eurowings,
During the Christmas holidays, Dortmund Airport expects around 21 passengers from December 2024, 6 to January 2025, 165.000. The winter flight program offers 33 destinations in 19 countries. Flights to Katowice, London, Rome and Palma de Mallorca are particularly popular. Winter sports enthusiasts can visit destinations such as Cluj-Napoca and Krakow.
From 1 June 2025, Wizz Air will increase the frequency of flights between Dortmund and Katowice to 21 weekly connections. The current two daily flights will be increased to three per day. This measure follows Ryanair's decision to discontinue the route in summer 2025. Wizz Air will thus
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