Stuttgart Airport

Stuttgart Airport is Germany's sixth-busiest airport and the principal gateway to Baden-Württemberg — the industrial heartland of southwestern Germany and home to Daimler, Porsche, Bosch, Audi's Neckarsulm plant, and a dense engineering economy that drives substantial business-travel demand. STR handles roughly 9.2M passengers (2024) and sits 13 km (8 mi) south of central Stuttgart on the Filderebene plateau at 1,276 ft (389 m) elevation — one of the highest-altitude major airports in Germany. The airport is a multi-carrier base with Eurowings operating its largest non-hub base here, supported by scheduled service from Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian, Turkish Airlines (including daily Istanbul on widebody), Ryanair, easyJet, Wizz Air, Condor, Discover Airlines, and seasonal long-haul links including Delta (Atlanta), United (Newark), Qatar Airways (Doha widebody), and Emirates/flydubai (Dubai). The route network reaches 125 destinations across 47 airlines, with an unusually strong Turkish and Balkan presence reflecting the regional diaspora. A single 10,974 ft (3,345 m) runway 07/25 handles all movements; the closely spaced hillside terrain to the south of the runway prevents construction of a parallel runway, imposing a long-term operational ceiling that has driven Stuttgart to invest heavily in night-service restrictions and noise management. Four terminals (T1, T2, T3, T4) are connected airside under a single roofline, and the airport is directly integrated with the ongoing Stuttgart 21 rail project, which will eventually link STR to the new underground Hauptbahnhof and to the future Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed line. STR also hosts Germany's first commercial electric-aircraft charging infrastructure, reflecting the state's focus on aviation innovation.