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…
In 2023 I was in Estonia, in Tallinn (Tallinn is the capital of Estonia) and I flew with SAS (Scandinavian Airlines). I began my flight in Düsseldorf Airport (this is the nearest airport to my apartment) in Germany. Nearly every airport has two codes. One the three letter code of the IATA what you have already seen on your suitcase when you have checked in and the four letter code of the ICAO. For Düsseldorf it is IATA: DUS and…
I open a new and separated YouTube channel about aviation, planes, take-off and landings It is free, open and public – everyone can see the videos. The channel has the name Aviation worldwide Here I will publish all videos about aviation. That means from my main channel I will delete this videos and re-upload in a longer version to this channel. I use for my videos the Open-Source-Software editor Kdenlive and can add all videos to one video. -> Here…
Yesterday I was at the airport of Düsseldorf in West-Germany. It is a small trip with the trains from Essen. The Skytrain connects the airport Railway station with the airport terminal. It is not a free transportation system. You have to pay with your normal ticket of the transport association VRR. At the moment one journey costs 3,60 Euro. The Skytrain runs automatic and there are every 5 minutes on train. It stopps at the car park of the airport,…
Ich war am gestrigen Freitag mal am Frankfurter Flughafen, als Besucher. Dort war ich zu letzt irgendwann zwischen 2007 und 2011. Genau kann ich mich nicht erinnern, weil das war im Rahmen eines Urlaubs in dieser Gegend und da hatte ich das Blog noch nicht betrieben. Die Hinfahrt hatte ich mit dem ICE, genauer gesagt dem ICE 527, das ist ein Sprinter bewerkstelligt. Ich wollte auf der Hinfahrt rasch dort sein und zurück bin ich mit dem Deutschlandticket (wie gewohnt)…