Company Portrait

Passenger figures

• Air traffic continued to recover from coronavirus in 2024: Hamburg Airport recorded approximately 14.83 million arriving and departing passengers - around 9 percent more than in the previous year. 
• Hamburg Airport during the corona pandemic: In 2021, around 5.32 million passengers traveled from Hamburg Airport, 69 percent less than in 2019 but 17 percent more than in the first year of corona (4.56 million passengers),
• making it the largest airport in northern Germany - in 5th place nationwide.

Air cargo

• The Hamburg Airport Cargo Center (HACC), which is directly connected to the apron with its own border control point, opened in 2016
• The HACC can handle around 150,000 tons of air freight per year 
• In 2024, around 65,400 tons of freight were handled via the HACC, which is around 39 percent more than in the previous year (2023: 47,200 tons) 

Airlines

• Around 55 airlines connect Hamburg Airport with around 120 national and international direct destinations - making Hamburg Airport the leader in northern Germany
• Over 1,000 destinations worldwide can be reached with just one transfer.

Premises

Flight operations commenced in 1911 on a 44-hectare site.
Today, the premises have grown to 570 hectares, incorporating the largest contiguous green space in Hamburg.
The site is surrounded by a 22-kilometer perimeter fence and an 18-kilometer perimeter road. 

Apron

A comprehensive refurbishment of the 330,000-square-meter main apron (Apron 1) was undertaken from 2016 to 2020. 
A total of 55 aeroplanes can now be handled at any one time.
To handle aircraft, there are 19 pier positions (15 with jetbridges and 4 walk-in-walk-out positions) as well as additional remote positions on Apron 1. A further 14 remote positions on Apron 2 are available for charter and scheduled traffic.

Runways

Hamburg Airport has two intersecting runways.
Taking off and landing is possible in four directions.

General Aviation Terminal

A separate terminal with comprehensive infrastructure is available for general aviation.
On average, 35 private jets, propeller aircraft, and helicopters park in the adjacent hangar.
There are around 55 take-offs and landings per day (mostly commercial: charter flights, private flights, and training flights).
 

Shops, food & beverage, counters

Employees

Hamburg Airport Group: around 1,800
Subsidiary companies: around 1,010
Flughafen Hamburg GmbH: around 790

Value generation in the region*

• A total of 15,000 people are employed at Hamburg Airport, 2000 of them directly with Flughafen Hamburg GmbH and its subsidiaries.
• Each of the 15,000 jobs at Hamburg Airport secures a further 1.8 jobs in Hamburg.
• The purchasing power of domestic and international guests drive positive local demand effects amounting to 1.3 billion euros.
• Every euro of value creation at the airport  also generates 2.0 euros of value creation in Hamburg – totalling at least 500 million euros per year.

*Source: Institute of International Economics (HWWI), report from 2017

Revenue

• 2018: 269.4 million euros
• 2019: 274.8 million euros
• 2020: 119.6 million euros
• 2021: 128.9 million euros
• 2022: 216.7 million euros
• 2023: 259.4 million euros
• 2024: 284.6 million euros

Annual reports

Annual report 2023

(1.6 MB)

Annual report 2022

(3.5 MB)

Annual report 2021

(3.9 MB)

Annual report 2020

(2.3 MB)

Hamburg Airport’s focus on the needs of passengers is the remit of the Passenger Management Division. From home to the plane and back — one core business division is responsible for every point of contact with the passenger and every interaction that shapes the customer experience. This includes passenger information, passenger services, guidance and orientation at the airport, terminal management, baggage logistics, hygiene, and cleaning. 

The management of all rental units, management and marketing of the advertising business, and all retail and food & beverage activities are included in the remit of the Center Management (FC) Division. Responsibilities also include location marketing, guiding the joint marketing programme, awarding concessions for landside traffic, and the concept and rental of the new Air Cargo Center.

Real Estate Management is responsible for developing the airport property in line with demand and operating it safely. In addition to assuming operator responsibility, Real Estate Management is also responsible for project development and the planning and implementation of construction projects.

Various overlapping processes make up the Ground Handling Division. Ground handling services include, for example, loading and unloading aircraft, cabin cleaning, pushback, bus transfers, and passenger handling. Operative ground handling services are carried out by companies including subsidiaries GroundSTARS, CATS, STARS — operating under the umbrealla of HAM Ground Handling — and the minority holding AHS Hamburg. These companies are legally autonomous.

Andreas Rieckhof
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hamburg Flughafen GmbH and State Councillor of the Hamburg Ministry of Economic Affairs and Innovation

Gerhard Schroeder
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Managing Director AviAlliance GmbH, Düsseldorf

Tobias von der Heide
State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Transport, Labor, Technology and Tourism of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

Oliver Jensen
Managing Director of HGV Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vermögens- und Beteiligungsmanagment mbH

Dr. Nadine Bräuninger
Head of Department ZR Authority for Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture at the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Dr. Sibylle Roggencamp
Head of the Asset and Investment Management Department of the Hamburg Finance Authority

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schwenker
Chairman of the Advisory Council Roland Berger GmbH

Dr. Johannes Conradi
Managing Director Partner, Blacklake GmbH - BLACKLAKE Management Partner

Birgit Schweeberg
Head of Member Dialog and Audits at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce

Dennis Krein
Executive Director AviAlliance GmbH, Düsseldorf 

Malte Michalzik 
Employee representative

Jonny Rickert
Employee representative

Marcel Liedtke
Employee representative

Franziska Gscheidlinger
Employee representative

Jutta Lewe
Employee representative

Flughafen Hamburg GmbH's Economic Advisory Board is a platform where we regularly seek expert advice from northern Germany's business community. Here we discuss with key economic players how we can further develop Hamburg Airport's regional economic importance in line with demand and promote and highlight the positive macroeconomic effects emanating from the airport.

Achim Adams    
Owner, Adams Unternehmensberatung

Norbert Basler 
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Basler AG

Stephan Biallas  
Partner, Ernst & Young GmbH Auditing Company

Dr. Christian von Bötticher    
Chairman of the Board, Federation of the German Food Industry

Andrea Bruckner   
Chairman of the Executive Board, BDO AG

Michael Conrad  
President, DEHOGA Hamburg

Ulfert Cornelius  
Präsident, Business association Hafen Hamburg / Managing Director, Evos Hamburg GmbH

Stefan Dräger              
Chairman of the Executive Board, Drägerwerk AG

Felix Faber  
Managing Director, Deutsche Shell Holding GmbH

Dr. Norman Goldberg
Chairman of the Executive Board, tesa SE

Robert Heinemann
Managing Director, ECE Group Services

Uwe Heckert
CEO, Philips Market DACH

Dr. Hans Fabian Kruse  
Managing Director, Wiechers & Helm GmbH

Christian Kühn    
Managing Director, Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG

Wybcke Meier    
CEO, TUI Cruises GmbH

Wolfgang Raike
Chairman of the Board, Tourismusverband Hamburg e.V.

Willem van der Schalk    
Managing Director, Willem van der Schalk International GmbH

Annika Schwieger
Owner Anni Carlsson GmbH

Thomas Stöckel  
Senior Vice President Supplier Relations, BCD Travel Germany

Nawina Walker 
Location Manager, Airbus Operations GmbH