Düsseldorf International Airport (German: Flughafen Düsseldorf International) (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDDL), is the third largest airport in Germany with 16.6 million passengers predicted to pass through this year. Only Munich International Airport and Frankfurt International Airport have more passengers. The airport serves an important hub for the airline LTU and an important secondary hub for Lufthansa. Lufthansa has 270 flights per day (43 destinations) from or to Düsseldorf the airport's 70 hosted airlines support flights to 186 non-stop-destinations on all continents (except for Oceania). The airport has up to 700 takeoffs and landings per day. Düsseldorf International Airport is located nine kilometres from the center of Düsseldorf, Germany

Düsseldorf International has two runways, which are 3000 m and 2700 m long. There are plans to extend the 3000 m runway to 3600 m, but the city of Ratingen, which lies in the approach path of the runway, is blocking them.

107 airplane parking positions are available. The current terminal building is capable of handling up to 22 million passengers per year. However, due to an agreement with residents in nearby Ratingen (the so called Angerlandvergleich), this capacity may not be reached within the next few years, as aircraft movements are restricted. Along with Frankfurt International Airport, Munich International Airport and Cologne Bonn Airport, Düsseldorf International Airport is able to handle the new superjumbo Airbus A380 aircraft. On November 12th, 2006 the first A380 landed in Düsseldorf as part of a Lufthansa promotion flight. Lufthansa is planning to use Düsseldorf International as the diversion airport for A380 in case of bad weather in Frankfurt.

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