Groningen Airport Eelde was founded in 1931. Over a period of three quarters of a century the northern airport has become a very complete international airport situated at no more than a stone’s throw from the city of Groningen.
High-quality package
With a high-quality package of facilities and a market-oriented approach, Groningen Airport Eelde wants to be the first airport of choice from which holidaymakers and business travellers from the North of the Netherlands want to fly. Groningen Airport Eelde is the airport for the region as well as of the region. The airport considers it its task to facilitate the region in the best possible way – in terms of economics, infrastructure and social relevance. The best possible way, nothing more, nothing less.
Attractive airport
The nearness of the airport, its excellent accessibility, the favourable departure times and the short check-in times male Groningen Airport Eelde an attractive airport to the entire North as well as for the provinces of Overijssel and Gelderland and the German border area. This is exactly why an ever increasing number of holidaymakers and business travellers prefer Groningen Airport Eelde over the busy Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
Tourist and promotional flights
Most of our passenger use the charter- and scheduled flights. But the airport also offers the opportunity to go out for round trips from Groningen Airport Eelde. They may be tourist flight, but they also have a promotional purpose. People who are interested may go on a round trip over the North of the Netherlands to look at their town or province from a different perspective
Medical and military flights
Groningen Airport Eelde is also an airport for medical donor flights and for the emergency helicopter of the University Medical Centre Groningen, the UMCG. Rescue teams of the Ministry of Defence also use our facilities (for military operational flights).
Most of our passenger use the charter and scheduled flights. But the airport also offers the opportunity to go out for round trips from Groningen Airport Eelde. They may be tourist flight, but they also have a promotional purpose. People who are interested may go on a round trip over the North of the Netherlands to look at their town or province from a different perspective.
