On 20.03.2025 I was at the airport of Dortmund. This airport is on the east side of the Ruhr area (Ruhrgebiet) and it is a small one.

General information

The only runway has length about 2,000 meters. The main airline is Wizz Air that has now (data from March 2025) a lot of connections to East Europe. Ryanair will remove all connection from Dortmund on 29.03.2025 because Germany with a lot of taxes is too expensive to the airport.

At the moment (March 2025) you can take the following airlines:

• Eurowings
• Pegasus
• Dan Air
• Sun Express
• Condor
• Trade Air

History

Dortmund airport was in the former times for the airlines RFG (Reise- und Industrieflug GmbH), that merges with NFD (Nürnberger Flugdienst) to former Eurowings. Eurowings was acquired by Lufthansa and it was first the regional airlines after it became the a low-coast carrier.

The other airline was Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter that was bought by Air Berlin and now German Airways.

How to get to the airport

You can reach the airport by a special airport bus from Dortmund main railway station that costs extra and cannot use the normal public transport tickets.

The other ways are:

From Dortmund main station with the underground line U47 to Aplerbeck and the bus line 490 to Dortmund airport.

From Dortmund main railway station with the local train line RB59 (operated by Eurobahn) with the destination Soest to Holzwickede railway station and the airport shuttle bus.

From Unna railway station, you can take the bus line C41. This bus only goes from Monday to Friday.

To get with your car, you can take the freeway Bundesautobahn A44 to the exit Holzwickede.

My video

Here is the video about my visit at the Dortmund airport.