Cheap Flights: Baden-Baden Airpark
Fly Low-Cost Airlines to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) Germany
Jan 28, 2008
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB), also known as Baden-Airpark, is around 14 km / 9 miles west of the famous German spa town Baden-Baden and 45 km / 30 miles south of Karlsruhe. Baden-Airpark is only used by low-cost airlines meaning generally cheap tickets, low airfares, and flights mostly to holiday destinations.
- Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport is very convenient for travelers to Baden-Baden, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, and other parts of the German Black Forest and French Alsace.
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) in the Baden-Airpark
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) is inside the Baden-Airpark – a business and industrial park, which also has an 18-hole golf course and ice-skating rink. Both these sport facilities as well as the airport itself are legacies left by the Canadian military that used the airport from 1953 to 1993.
The military origins means the 3,300-m (10,800-ft) runway is hard to fault. The world’s largest aircraft, the six-engine Antonov AN225, has landed here and the airport is used for training flights with various aircraft including Boeing 747s.
The modern terminal building is rather basic but can handle up to 1.5 million annual passengers. Services include a beer garden and outdoor playground for small children. In 2007, 980,000 passengers used Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport – a 17% increase over 2006.
- The airport building is closed over night but simple accommodation is available in Baden Airpark Building B112 (for €35) or numerous hotels in the vicinity.
Cheap Flights to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) on Low-Cost Airlines
Currently, only low-cost airlines fly from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB). The main airlines with a presence at Baden-Airpark are Hamburg International, Ryanair, TUIfly, and Air Berlin.
- Destinations followed by (S) are on flights that operate during the summer season only. The official airport summer schedule is April to late October but each airline (and indeed route) defines “summer” individually.
Cheap Flights to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) on Low-Cost Airline Air Berlin
German low-cost airline Air Berlin (AB) has non-stop flights from Baden-Airpark only to Berlin-Tegel (TXL) and Hamburg (HAM). However, in contrast to most European low-cost airlines, Air Berlin offers guaranteed connection flights. Connection flights can be booked on Air Berlin from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden via Berlin-Tegel (TXL) to Copenhagen, Göteborg, Helsinki, London-Stansted, Moscow (DME), St Petersburg, Stockholm (ARN), and Vienna, and via Hamburg (HAM) to Manchester.
Cheap Flights to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) on Low-Cost Airline Hamburg International
Hamburg International (4R) has flights from Baden-Airpark to Ankara (S), Antalya (S), Corfu (S), Fuerteventura, Heraklion (S), Hurghada, Istanbul (S), Izmir (S), Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca (S), Sharm el Sheik, and Tenerife-South.
Cheap Flights to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) on Low-Cost Airline Ryanair
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair (FR) flies from Baden-Airpark to Alicante, Dublin, Girona-Barcelona, London-Stansted, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm (NYO), and Valencia.
Cheap Flights to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) on Low-Cost Airline TUIfly
German low-cost airline TUIfly (X3) flies from Baden-Airpark to Antalya (S), Fuerteventura, Heraklion (S), Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes (S), and Tenerife-South.
Cheap Flights to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) on Other Airlines
Other airlines flying from Baden-Airpark to single destinations inlcude:
- Sky Airlines (SHY) flies to Antalya.
- SunExpress (XQ) flies to Antalya.
- Tunisair (TU) flies to Monastir (S).
- Air Via (VIM) flies to Varna (S).
The availability of public transportation from Baden Airpark depends on the day and time of arrival.
Germany has many airports but the best alternatives to Baden-Airpark are Stuttgart Airport (STR), which actually owns most of FKB, and Frankfurt International Airport (FRA) with its huge number of intercontinental flights.
- After flying cheaply to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport, great ways to blow the budget in style include staying in luxury hotels in Baden-Baden and dining in Baiersbronn, a small Black Forest village with restaurants collectively sporting seven Michelin stars.
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