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Memmingen Airport , also known as ''Allgäu-Airport Memmingen'', is an international airport in the town of Memmingerberg near Memmingen, in the Swabia region of Germany. It is the smallest of the three commercial airports in Bavaria after Munich Airport and Nuremberg Airport and has the highest altitude of any commercial airport in Germany. It is operated by ''Allgäu Airport GmbH & Co. KG'', a limited partnership of 71 mostly local, medium-sized companies with only minor public shares. Located about from the centre of Memmingen and from the city centre of Munich, it serves Memmingen and the Allgäu area and also provides a low-cost alternative to Munich Airport and therefore is sometimes referred to as ''Memmingen/Munich-West Airport'' or similar by some low-cost airlines. It mostly features flights to European leisure and some metropolitan destinations. == History == A military airfield was built at Memmingerberg in 1935. It was used during World War II. After being rebuilt, it was used for US Air Force training flights from 1956. From 1959 to 2003, it was the home base of German Air Force fighterbomber wing 34 ("Allgäu"). The airport was certified as a regional commercial airport on 20 July 2004 and commenced operation on 5 August 2004, but there were no scheduled or regular chartered flights. Scheduled flights to the 2005 Hanover Fair were cancelled due to lack of demand. In June 2005, the district of Oberallgäu granted initial finance of €480,000. A further sum of €200,000 was granted by the city of Memmingen after a popular vote on 25 September 2005. In 2006, scheduled flights to Dortmund and Rostock were planned but cancelled because the carrier became insolvent. In autumn 2006, Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter offered chartered flights to Dortmund for two months, during which only 100 passengers were carried. In March 2007, a subsidy of €7,500,000 promised by Bavaria was approved by the European Commission. Until 25 September 2008 it was known as ''Allgäu Airport/Memmingen''. On 28 June 2007,〔 TUIfly started offering domestic flights to Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne/Bonn and also flights to holiday destinations such as Mallorca, Crete, Naples, Rome, Venice and Antalya. In March 2009, Ryanair announced seven new routes to/from Memmingen starting May 2009. They have continued to announce new routes and from May 2010 Ryanair operated 14 routes to and from Memmingen. Wizz Air also started to serve Memmingen and established up to six routes since then. On 24 October 2013, Ryanair announced a new seasonal service to Shannon while Palermo was added as a destination from the summer season of 2015. On 5 June 2014, the airport welcomed its fifth millionth passenger in total.〔http://www.allgaeu-airport.de/allgau-airport-begrust-den-funfmillionsten-passagier/〕 In December 2014, InterSky announced to take over the domestic flights from Memmingen to Berlin and Hamburg by 1 March 2015 as Germanwings announced to cease the same services just a few days earlier.〔http://www.aero.de/news-20914/Intersky-startet-innerdeutsch-ab-Memmingen--.html〕 In earlier years, these routes had already been unsuccessfully served by TUIfly, Air Berlin and Avanti Air. In April 2015, Wizz Air announced to serve Vilnius as their eighth destination from Memmingen.〔http://www.airliners.de/memmingen-verbindung-baltikum/35437〕 In May 2015, InterSky announced to open a base at Memmingen Airport by October 2015 consisting of one aircraft, adding a new route to Cologne and increasing frequencies on the already existing services to Berlin and Hamburg.〔http://www.aero.de/news-21707/Intersky-kehrt-nach-Koeln-zurueck.html〕 Later, that plan was changed as a triangled route Friedrichshafen - Memmingen - Cologne/Bonn will be established instead of basing an aircraft in Memmingen.〔http://www.aero.de/news-21891/Intersky-verlinkt-Memmingen-und-Friedrichshafen.html〕 However, on 6 November 2015, InterSky ceased all operations due to financial difficulties, leaving Memmingen again without any domestic connections.〔(austrianaviation.net - "InterSky is grounded" ) (German) 6 November 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memmingen Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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