Düsseldorf Airport holds highest number of British Destinations
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As from June, three times a day to London-Gatwick with Flybe; Düsseldorf is Germany's airport with the highest number of British destinations.
A partir de junio, y con una frecuencia de tres veces al día, el Aeropuerto de Dusseldorf ofrecerá vuelos a London-Gatwick con Flybe. Se trata del aeropuerto alemán con mayor número de vuelos al Reino Unido.
A new destination in the flight plan of Düsseldorf International: Flybe will connect the North Rhine-Westphalian capital with London-Gatwick, the second largest British airport, from 22-Jun-09 onwards. Currently, Flybe already heads for Birmingham, Manchester and Southampton from Düsseldorf. By the new connection the already good route network to Great Britain will be further extended. Passengers in Düsseldorf may choose from 13 British destination airports - more than any other German airport offers.
Flybe serves the new route from Monday to Friday three times a day, one time on Saturdays and two times on Sundays. Gatwick, a new base of the British airline, is situated to the South of London and has a very good link to downtown. In this way, for example Victoria Station in the heart of London is easy to reach within just 30 minutes taking the Gatwick Express from the airport railway station in Gatwick, which travels every 15 minutes. Aside that, numerous further trains connect the airport directly with destinations in the South of England, e.g. Brigthon, Bedford, Reading and Portsmouth.
At Gatwick Airport Flybe passengers have a lot of transfer possibilities, for instance to Aberdeen, Belfast, Guernsey, or to the Isle of Man. Flybe is Europe's biggest regional low-cost carrier and aims especially at commercial travelers. It offers passengers a top-quality service including, for example, lounge access and other advantages, both on the ground and in the air.
250 weekly flights to Great Britain Great Britain is one of the countries with the best by-air connections to North Rhine-Westphalia. Those who want to travel to the United Kingdom flying will find a wide selection of airlines, destinations and travelling times in Düsseldorf. The summer flight plan offers nearly 250 weekly flights to 13 British airports: Birmingham (with Lufthansa and Flybe), Edinburgh (Jet2.com), Leeds/Bradford (Jet2.com), Manchester (Lufthansa and Flybe), Newcastle (Lufthansa) and Southampton (Flybe), the four airports of London, Heathrow (Lufthansa and British Airways), Gatwick (Flybe), City (Lufthansa) and Stansted (Air Berlin), as well as the seasonal destinations Inverness (Lufthansa), Jersey (Air Berlin and Lufthansa) and Newquay (Lufthansa).
Great Britain and North Rhine-Westphalia have good relations in many areas. The United Kingdom is, for example, one of the most important trading partners of North Rhine-Westphalia. In imports, according to information of the state's Office of Statistics it took the second place of the most important supplier countries of the last year delivering goods worth some EUR14.5 billion. Among the most important buyer countries of North Rhine-Westphalia Great Britain comes fourth with goods worth EUR10.8 billion. North Rhine-Westphalia is additionally a popular destination for the British. According to "Tourismus NRW" they are the front runner among the foreign tourists with more than 380,000 guests and 750,000 overnight stays last year. The so-called incoming tourism, from which the region profits, is boosted by city connections such as Flybe's new offer.
Düsseldorf International is last year's greatest airport of North Rhine-Westphalia and number three in Germany with some 18.1 million passengers. From here 65 airlines are taking off to 180 destinations worldwide in the summer flight plan. Situated in one of Europe's economically strongest regions and with 18 million inhabitants within a radius of 100 kilometers, Düsseldorf International is vitally important to meeting the need for mobility of both the people and the econmy of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, the airport, as the biggest place of work in Düsseldorf with some 17,600 jobs, stimulates employment in the state considerably.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 27-Apr-09
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