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Hamburg Airport is the international Airport of Hamburg , Germany . It originally covered 440,000 square metres. Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to 5.7 square kilometres ( Munich International Airport covers 15 square kilometres, making it roughly three times the size). The main apron covers 320,000 square meters. The Airport is 8.5 km north-west of the centre of the City Of Hamburg . The Airport was opened in 1911 . In the 1970s, there were discussions of moving Hamburg airport northward to a site near Kaltenkirchen. This plan was subsequently abandoned, and the airport is completing a major modernization that includes new terminal buildings, new roadside access and a connection to Hamburgs rapid transit system (S-Bahn). Hamburg Airport (measured by the number of passengers) is the fifth biggest of the 16 German Commercial Airports (on a level with Tegel International Airport in Berlin ). The shareholders of Hamburg Airport are the City of Hamburg (51%), Hochtief AirPort GmbH and Aer Rianta International plc. (49%). AIRLINES Around 60 airlines fly direct from Hamburg to 117 destinations world-wide. Since 2005 Continental Airlines operates a daily fight to New York. This spring Emirates starts its service to Dubai. The largest airlines (in terms of passenger figures) are:
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