Eindhoven Airport

Eindhoven Airport (EIN) is the second-busiest airport in the Netherlands after Amsterdam Schiphol and the largest regional airport in the country, handling more than 6.5 million passengers a year. Serving the Brainport Eindhoven technology region — anchored by ASML, Philips and a dense cluster of semiconductor and automotive suppliers — and a catchment that stretches into the Belgian and German borderlands, EIN has become a central low-cost gateway for southern and eastern Netherlands. It operates as a civil-military airport co-located with Eindhoven Air Base, the largest military airfield in the Netherlands and home to Royal Netherlands Air Force transport operations. EIN sits about 8 km (5 mi) west of central Eindhoven, at an elevation of 74 ft (23 m). A single 9,843 ft (3,000 m) asphalt runway (03/21) is shared between civilian and military traffic under Dutch Defence control, with commercial operations subject to strict nighttime noise restrictions and an annual movement cap — one of the tightest in Europe. The single terminal covers roughly 25,000 m² and is in the middle of a phased reconstruction: the current 'Terminal of the Future' project will replace the existing building with a new modular, largely timber-built facility by 2028. Thirteen airlines link EIN to 75 nonstop destinations, with Ryanair, Wizz Air, Transavia and Corendon providing the densest low-cost networks to Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Morocco and the United Kingdom. Seasonal ski flying to the Alps and leisure flights to the Canary Islands, Egypt and the Red Sea round out a schedule that is unusually high-frequency for its size. Its strategic role as a Brainport business gateway, a Belgian and North Rhine-Westphalian spillover market and a Dutch military transport hub makes EIN considerably more significant than its raw passenger figures suggest (2025).