Bremen Airport or Flughafen Bremen (IATA: BRE, ICAO: EDDW) serves the city of Bremen, Germany. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... For other uses, see Bremen (disambiguation). ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a meter. ... The metre, or meter, is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... The ICAO airport code is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... The river Weser flows through Bremen to the estuary at Bremerhaven. ...

History

The airport was founded in 1913 when the senate of Bremen granted the Aviation Association an official permission to operate a flight base. 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

1920 Netherland based airline KLM had a connection from Amsterdam via Bremen and Hamburg to Copenhagen. 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... KLM (in full: Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, literally Royal Aviation Company; usual English: Royal Dutch Airlines) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before its (agreed) take-over by Air France, KLM was the national airline of the Netherlands. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Coordinates Website www. ... Alster Lake at dusk Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and with Hamburg Harbour, its principal port, Hamburg is also the second largest port city in the European Union. ... Copenhagen ( (help· info) IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ...

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. 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... US Army Seal The United States Army is the branch of the United States armed forces that has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... // Events and trends This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War in 1959. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Ipanema beach, in the South Zone, immortalised by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Morais song The Girl from Ipanema Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese), pron. ...

1989 was the first year that the airport had more than one million passengers. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. The Junkers Ju 52 nicknamed Tante Ju (Auntie Ju) and Iron Annie was a civilian airliner and military transport aircraft and bomber manufactured between 1932 and 1945 by Junkers. ... Spacelab in payload bay during STS-90 Spacelab is a microgravity laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. ...

Airlines and destinations

• Lufthansa serves some German airports. International flights are scheduled via Frankfurt.

• OLT serves London City, Toulouse, Copenhagen, Brussels, and Zürich.

• easyJet serves London Luton from Bremen.

• KLM serves Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

• AirFrance serves Charles de Gaulle International Airport

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Ground transportation

Tram no. 6 every 10 min (on sundays up to 30 min) to Bremen City takes 17 min and costs 2,05 € (2006).

External links

• Airport Bremen
• Bremenflug
• World Aero Data on this airport (EDDW)
• A-Z World Airports: Bremen Airport - Flughafen Bremen (BRE/EDDW)