Bremen Airport, BRE

Bremen Airport – Bremen, Germany or Flughafen Bremen (IATA: BRE, ICAO: EDDW) serves the city of Bremen, Germany.

History

The airport was founded in 1913 when the senate of Bremen granted the Aviation Association an official permission to operate a flight base.

1920 Netherland based airline KLM had a connection from Amsterdam via Bremen and Hamburg to Copenhagen.

1945 the airport was taken over by American troops and handed back to the city in 1949. During the fifties, connections to New York and Rio de Janeiro were added.

1989 was the first year that the airport had more than one million passengers.

The Bremenhalle inside the airport hosts a little aviation and space exploration museum, displaying the Ju 52 Bremen air plane and the first Spacelab module.

Airlines and destinations

Air France
operated by Régional (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Condor Airlines (Palma de Mallorca)
easyJet (London-Luton)
TUIfly (Antalya, Fuerteventura, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Heraklion, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife, Thessaloniki)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart)
Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Bristol, Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Toulouse, Zurich)
Ryanair (Dublin [starts May 11], Girona, London-Stansted, Málaga, Murcia, Oslo-Torp, Pisa, Riga, Tampere, Venice-Treviso, Verona)

Cargo Facilities

Bonded Warehouse, Security for Valuables, Dangerous Goods, Radioactive Goods

Customs

Tel: +49 (0)421 55 20 73
Fax: +49 (0)421 5 57 81 38
Op. Hours: 07:45-19:30
Cargo Handling Agents: Flughafen Bremen GmbH

Summary

Airport Code : BRE
Airport Name : Bremen
Runway Length : 6673 ft.
Runway Elevation : 13 ft.

City : Bremen
Country : Germany
Country Abbrev. : DE
World Area Code : 429
GMT Offset : -1.0

Telephone : +49 421 5595-0 (Public Relations) +49 (0)421 55 95-215
Fax : +49 421 5595-474
Email : contact@airport-bremen.de
Website : www.airport-bremen.de