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(German: Flughafen Düsseldorf International) (IATA: DUS, ICAO: EDDL) is the largest airport in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the third largest airport in Germany, handling 18.99 million passengers in 2010.[2]
Düsseldorf International is located in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) north of downtown Düsseldorf, and some 20 km (12 mi) south-west of Downtown Essen. The airport is accessible via an extensive ground transportation infrastructure, including its own motorway-section - part of the Bundesautobahn 44 (which connects to Bundesautobahn 52, 57 and 3) - and two railway stations - one of which for high-speed, long-distance trains. Düsseldorf SkyTrain operates as an inter-terminal people-mover within the airport.
The airport serves as an airline hub for Air Berlin and Lufthansa, the airport's largest and second-largest airlines - both offering about 300 daily flights to 53 destinations. Turkish Airlines is the largest foreign airline to operate from Düsseldorf International.[4] The airport handles on average 750 takeoffs and landings per day with a total of 70 airlines offering flights to 186 non-stop-destinations.
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When looking for parking, try to drive to the Airport railway station, there is a Q-Park parking lot which is significantly cheaper that the parking lots in the Terminal area, while I visited DUS last in 2010, the day price for this parking lot was about 7 Euros for a full day parking in DUS.
When parking there, you just have to walk a few meters to reach the spotting area on the roof of the Railway station which provides a fabulous position for spotting, as the Runway heads of the approach direction 23 is directly next to the spotting area.
When trying to reach the panaorama terrace from here, you can simply take the hanging monorail train (Skytrain) which travels each 5 to 10 minutes between the railway station and the main terminal building.