Friedrichshafen Airport – FDH Friedrichshafen

The Friedrichshafen Airport, also known as the Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen, is a minor international airport that serves Friedrichshafen in Germany. Established in 1915, the Friedrichshafen Airport (FDH) typically handles 590,000 passengers per year, making it the 19th busiest airport in the country.

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The FDH - Friedrichshafen Airport is the third biggest airport in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It has 5 domestic routes and 8 international ones, handled by 12 airlines, offering both regular scheduled and chartered flights. The airport has one runway that allows night landings, and one terminal building with seven departure gates. It also has an airship hangar and other general aviation facilities. The first hangars of the airport were built on 1915, and it wasn’t until 1929 that the airport saw its first scheduled passenger flights. Tourists usually use the airport heavily during the winter due to the airport being close to the Austrian Alps. This international airport is near the cities of Konstanz and Staad.

What to Do & Area Attractions

There is no onsite hotel for the FDH Airport; however, tourists can book close-by accommodations. Some of them include the Ringhotel Krone Schnetzenhausen, a four-star hotel which is 4 miles away from the airport; the Comfort Hotel Friedrichshafen, a 4-star hotel and the Seehotel Friedrichshafen.

The closest airports to Friedrichshafen Airport (FDH) is the St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport (airport code: ACH), a small airport in Alternhein in Switzerland, which is the home base for the airline People’s; the Hohenems-Dornbirn Airport in Dornbirn, Austria; and the Zurich Airport, the largest airport of Switzerland, which is located in Zürich.