Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)

Dusseldorf is an airport I transit through from Birmingham to Berlin. It is a pleasure to pass through here as the aiprot is generally under used. When you compare it to Frankfurt it is a doddle, queues for PassPort control and security are negligible. Because of this you can be comfortable taking flights with short transit time provided you are hand baggage only. The airport itself is modern very clean and has a decent range of shops and restaurants as yo9u expect in a provincial airport. It is mostly business travellers that seem to use the airport so people tend to know what they are doing which helps to keep the queues short. No stag ...  Read the complete review

When I first I graduated I joined an international company and worked in sales and marketing. My first overseas 'territory' was Germany where I worked with a local agent who was based near Koln. As a result I bobbed back and forth to Germany using Dusseldorf as my main airport. I wasn't the only one - in fact most of my colleagues were also back and forth and Dusseldorf airport usually had one or two of us passing through most weeks. Then in April 1996 fire broke out in the airport whilst two of my colleagues were sitting on a plane about to take off. 17 people died that day and many more were hospitalised. The whole of Germany shook their heads and asked how such a ...  Read the complete review