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Luxembourg-Findel Airport, sometimes simply called Findel, is an airport in Luxembourg, located a few kilometers northeast of Luxembourg City in the locality of Findel in Sandweiler, hence its name.

It is the only airport in the country so it is exclusively international. It serves as a hub for the national airline Luxair, as well as for the international freight company Cargolux.

In terms of freight transport, Findel Airport is the fifth European freight airport behind Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London and ranks 23rd globally.

As regards passenger traffic, it is experiencing unprecedented growth, welcoming 4,4 million passengers in 20191.

It was in 1930 that the Luxembourg pioneers of aviation chose the Findel site to practice their passion. The Second World War delayed this project, and it was not until 1945 that Findel Airport started operating. It was inaugurated in 1946.

With a grass runway and a small wooden building, the airport already accommodated more than a thousand planes in 1946, a number that has steadily increased since. This intense traffic required, at the beginning of the 1950s, the construction of two tracks: one of 2 meters by 000 m and the other of 60 meters by 1 m; and in 600 the main runway, enlarged to 50 meters and marked, finally enabled the Grand Duchy to have an international airport allowing night flights. This extension causes the closure of the Esch-sur-Alzette aerodrome.

This airport boom was partly due to the Luxembourg company Luxembourg airlines, renamed Luxair in 1962. The beginning of the 1970s saw the birth of the project to extend the main runway and also the birth of freight flights with the creation of Cargolux, a company which will contribute to the modernization of equipment (“all weather” landing system) and to the actual enlargement of the runway. In the 1990s, a new control tower, centralizing air traffic control and radio technical services, was put into service.

The construction of a new, much larger terminal to accommodate up to 3 million passengers per year was entrusted to LuxAirport2 in 2002. Since then, terminals A and B have emerged. Terminal B "small carriers" has been fully functional since 2004 and reopened in July 2017, with the construction of a footbridge connecting it to terminal A. Construction of terminal A was completed in 2008 and this terminal was put into service on May 21, 2008.

source: Luxembourg Airport