Hamburg Airport is the third busiest in Germany. Over a hundred destinations can be reached from here on non-stop flights flown by both full-service and low-cost airlines.
Low Airfares on Flights from Hamburg Airport (HAM)
In contrast to many other regional airports, Hamburg Airport is not dominated by low-cost carriers. Budget airlines including Air Berlin, Easyjet, Flybe, Germanwings, and TUIfly have to compete for landing slots and destinations with full-service carriers such as Lufthansa, British Airways, Air France, and KLM.
- It is always worth comparing prices and nearby destination airports. Nothing brings down prices like competition on routes. Both British Airways and Lufthansa fly from Hamburg Airport to London Heathrow allowing for good internet deals on slow-selling flights. However, low-cost airlines fly passengers for a fifth of the price to London Luton (Easyjet) or London Gatwick (Germanwings). (Ryanair flies from Lübeck to Stansted.)
Cheap Flights from Hamburg Airport (HAM) on Low-Cost Airline Air Berlin
German budget airline Air Berlin (AB) flies from Hamburg (HAM) daily up to nine times to Munich (MUC), six times to Stuttgart (STR), four times to Düsseldorf (DUS) and Vienna (VIE), three times to Nürnberg (NUE), Palma de Mallorca (PMI), and Zurich (ZRH), twice to Karlsruhe/Baden–Baden (FKB), and daily to Barcelona (BCN), Malaga (AGP), Manchester (MAN), and Rome (FCO).
Cheap Flights from Hamburg Airport (HAM) on Low-Cost Airline Germanwings
Generally Germany’s cheapest budget airline Germanwings (4U) flies from Hamburg up to three times daily to Munich (MUC), Palma de Mallorca (PMI), and Stuttgart (STR), twice daily to London Gatwick (LGW), daily to Toulouse (TLS), and three times per week to Moscow Vnukovo.
Cheap Flights from Hamburg Airport (HAM) on Low-Cost Airline Easyjet
British budget airline Easyjet flies from Hamburg Airport up to twice daily to Basel (BSL) and from spring 2008 to Paris (CDG), and daily to Geneva (GVA) and London Luton (LTN).
Cheap Flights from Hamburg Airport (HAM) on Other Low-Cost Airlines
- British low-cost airline Flybe flies daily from Hamburg Airport to Birmingham Airport (BHX).
- OLT flies up to twice daily to Bremen (BRE), Bristol (BRS), and Eindhoven (EIN).
- Brussels Airlines (SN) flies up to three times per day to Brussels (BRU).
- Intersky (3L) flies up to twice daily on weekdays to Friedrichshafen (FDH).
- Finnish budget airline Blue1 flies daily to Helsinki (HEL).
- TUIfly flies from Hamburg up to three times per day to Cologne/Bonn (CGN) and Palma de Mallorca (PMI).
Non-Stop Flights from Hamburg Airport (HAM) to New York, USA
- Continental Airlines flies daily non-stop to New York Newark.
- Emirates flies daily non-stop to New York (JFK).
Cheap Flights to Popular Holiday Destinations
Several charter airlines as well as low-cost airlines including Air Berlin, Condor, TUIfly, and Germanwings fly seasonally to popular holiday destinations, predominantly in the Mediterranean region. Flights are often only once or twice a week and generally slotted in with package deals but available seats are sold to anyone.
Getting to Hamburg Airport (HAM)
Transportation from downtown Hamburg to Hamburg Airport by train is currently unnecessarily complicated. Airport Express Bus 110 connects the Airport with S and U-Bahn Station Ohlendorf every 10 minutes. From here, take S1 to the Hauptbahnhof or U1 to Jungfernsteg. Total travel time is just over half an hour. From end 2008, a direct S-Bahn train will run from the airport every 10 minutes in 23 minutes to the Hauptbahnhof.
Until then, the Airport Express Bus (Jasper) is faster. It connects the Hauptbahnhof (exit Kirchenallee across the road from the Hotel Europäischer Hof) and airport in 25 minutes every 15 minutes from 5 am to 10 pm (midnight from the airport). It cost €5 (€8 return). Taxis is around €20.
Buses are also available directly from Hamburg Airport to Kiel, Lübeck, and Hannover.
- Flights to Hamburg Airport (HAM) too expensive or from the wrong destinations? Try other airports in Northern Germany or any of the growing number of German airports popular with especially low-cost airlines. Lübeck (LBC) and Hannover (HAJ) offer alternatives.
Henk Bekker - Henk Bekker is a freelance travel writer currently living on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
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