A Guide to Using the Dusseldorf Airport From Rhino Car Hire
Dusseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia and Dusseldorf international airport is the third largest airport in the country after Frankfurt international airport and Munich international airport.
Editorial Manager Robert Frische wrote this article for Rhino car hire as part of a series about international airports in Germany and includes information on Car Hire Dusseldorf Airport and Car Hire at the Dusseldorf Weeze Airport
Because Dusseldorf international airport (airport code DUS) is located almost 10 kilometres outside of the city of Dusseldorf, you will most likely want to hire a car to complete your journey when leaving the terminal.
Cheap Rhino car hire can be booked in advance and there are great vehicles of all makes and models available through providers such as Hertz, Avis, Holiday Autos, Auto Europe and Sixt. Whether you are going through Dusseldorf international airport on business or for a holiday we have the right vehicle for you.
Last year more than 18 million passengers used Dusseldorf international airport, a large portion of them taking Air Berlin and Lufthansa flights.
The total airport traffic has risen steadily since 2002 when 14.75 million passengers used Dusseldorf international airport. However, the airport is still not at full capacity as the main terminals are capable of holding 22 million passengers every year.
Air Berlin has a whole A-Z of world wide cities which it flies to from Dusseldorf international airport.
These include Alicante, Bangkok - Suvarnabhumi, Copenhagen, Dresden, Faro, Helsinki, Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Milan-Malpensa, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Rome - Fiumicino, Sharm el -Sheikh, Tenerife - North, Venice - Marco Polo, Westerland - Sylt and Z'rich among many others.
There are also a large number of Air Berlin flights to seasonal European destinations such as Jersey, Reykjavik - Kevlavik, Rhodes, Kos and Minorca. There are also flights to various inter Atlantic destinations like John F Kennedy New York airport and Los Angeles airport.
With Lufthansa you can fly to the German airports of Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Munich.
Other flights go to Chicago - O'Hare, London - Heathrow, Moscow -Domodedovo, Newark, Palma de Mallorca, Paris - Charles de Gaulle, and Vienna.
Some of the seasonal destinations are to Miami airport in America and Toronto-Pearson airport in Canada. Towards the end of the year a route from Dusseldorf international airport to Dubai airport with Lufthansa will start up as well.
Other airlines which fly from Dusseldorf international airport are Austrian Airlines, Egypt Air, Croatia Airlines, Lot Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines System and Swiss International Air lines from terminal A.
From terminal B you can get flights with Aegean Airlines, Air Baltic, Air Europa, Air France, Delta Air lines, Czech Airlines KLM and many others.
If you are flying with Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, Blue Wings, Flybe, Ghana International Airlines, Jet 2, TUI Fly, Turkish Airlines and many others, you will depart from terminal C.
For the latest information on all the routes and airlines at Dusseldorf international airport as well as current news you can pick up a copy of Das Magazin at news stands there for free.
The other airport in the Dusseldorf area is airport Weeze (airport code NRN) which is located some 80 kilometres away from Dusseldorf and has various low cost flights.
Ryanair has the most international flights from airport Weeze to destinations such as Palma de Mallorca and Alicante in Spain and Bologna in Italy. The German airline Hamburg International flies from Dusseldorf airport Weeze to places in the Middle East such as Sharm El Sheik and Tel Aviv too.
Although Dusseldorf airport Weeze only had one and a half million passengers last year, this was such a massive increase on previous years that it is one of Europe's fastest growing airports.
