The variety of destination from Luxembourg Airport and surrounding regional airports is growing. It can be difficult to keep up in knowing just where you can directly fly to.
Luxembourg Airport, or Findel as it is commonly referred to, increases its destinations year on year, and you can now fly direct as far east as Ras-al-Khaimah in the UAE, as far south as the Tunisian island of Djerba, to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik or to Dublin.
Direct destinations even further afield are currently in discussions between new airlines and Luxembourg.
In terms of passengers, more than four million people travelled through Luxembourg airport last year, an increase of 440,000 compared with 2017.
Data from lux-Airport, the operating company of Luxembourg airport, showed Porto was the most popular flight destination, followed by Lisbon, Munich, Frankfurt and London City.
Currently, 16 airlines and about 95 destinations serve Luxembourg Airport.
On this map below, select a destination and the result below the map will show which airport to fly from and which airline to use. Note: Flights shown are direct only, no stopover flights shown.
It is quite easy to forget that just over the border, less than two hours’ drive away are three international airports each with their own destinations.
The largest by far is ‘Brussels South Charleroi Airport‘, an important European hub for Ryanair flying to destinations right across Europe, with destinations in Asia and Africa too.
TUI Fly is another operator with many flights out of Charleroi boasting some attractive package deals, given that the company is not just an airline but also a major tour operator.
Charleroi currently has eight airlines serving 112 destinations.
Frankfurt Hahn Airport has seen a decline in flights in recent years, and a question mark still hangs over the airport’s future. However, there are still some very good flight offers from this airport, which is just one hour 35 minutes’ drive away from Luxembourg.
Ryanair still operates from here, with a focus on Italy and Spain, but also flies to places like Vilnius and Marrakesch. If you want to fly to eastern Europe and beyond, Wizz Air covers Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania and Ukraine from Hahn.
Hahn has 57 destinations served by two airlines.
Lorraine Airport is often forgotten, but is in fact the closest of all the regional airports just over an hours’ drive away, with several destinations.
It’s not only an ideal airport for flying internally within France – as far south as the island of Corsica – but also further afield destinations such as Algeria, Morocco, or the Greek island of Crete.
Lorraine Airport has flights to 24 destinations with five airlines.
Another local airport easily overlooked is Airport Saarbrucken.
About one and a half hours’ drive away, the German airport is the only one of the locals you can fly to from Luxembourg, and therefore a useful transit airport.
But Saarbrücken has some nice destinations in its own right, flying internally in Germany to Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. Beyond the borders, it focuses on destinations in Spain and Greece.
In total from Airport Saarbrücken, you can fly to 11 destinations with seven airlines.
There are plans afoot for Luxembourg Airport growth as the country attracts more and more airlines.
One of the biggest announcements in 2018 was Qatar Airways‘ plans for direct flights between the Grand Duchy and Doha. This would be an attractive route not just for visiting Qatar, but handy for onward journeys to the middle east, Asia and Australasia. However no start date has been revealed.
It’s a similar story with China Eastern Airlines. In June last year Lux-Airport announced there were in discussions with the airline for direct flights to Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, the main hub for the eastern Henan region of China, a midpoint between Beijing to the north-east, and Shanghai to the south-east.
August 2018 saw the emergence of a little-known airline begin mulling over Luxembourg as a destination from the Channel Islands. Blue Islands Airline launched a survey for businesses in Jersey and Guernsey as to whether a route to and from Luxembourg would be attractive to them. With the survey now closed, we are still awaiting the decision as to whether or not the route will be launched.
However as Blue Islands is closely linked to Flybe, currently in financial difficulty, with a possible takeover on the cards. This could play an important role as to whether or not the services gets off the ground.
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