Operator of the regional commercial airport PAD/EDLP in Büren for passenger, charter and cargo traffic
Flughafen Paderborn/Lippstadt GmbH
Büren (Flughafenstraße 33) · DENew on Amplifa
About Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport
Flughafen Paderborn/Lippstadt GmbH operates the international commercial airport Paderborn/Lippstadt (PAD/EDLP) near Büren in East Westphalia-Lippe. Its range of services includes leisure flights to holiday destinations in Spain, Turkey, Greece and Egypt, business and private charters, cargo traffic as well as handling, a General Aviation Terminal (GAT), multi-storey car parks with charging stations and its own airport fire brigade with 45 staff on 24-hour duty. The runway is 2,180 metres long and 45 metres wide; instrument landing systems are available in both directions, along with maintenance hangars for commercial aircraft (A321/Boeing 757). The airport was opened in 1971 and the company founded in 1969; with a catchment area of around 6 million people, it serves as the home airport for OWL and neighbouring regions in NRW, Hesse and Lower Saxony and is part of the public infrastructure. Its shareholders are the districts of Paderborn, Soest, Hochsauerlandkreis and Höxter as well as the IHK Ostwestfalen and IHK Lippe. Operations are Ökoprofit certified; in 2025, 711,434 passengers and 44,111 aircraft movements were recorded.
- Site
- Büren
- Processes
- Passenger air traffic (leisure flights), Business and private charters, Cargo traffic/Cargo, Handling, General Aviation Terminal (GAT), Parking (multi-storey car parks, charging stations), Airport fire brigade, Maintenance hangars for commercial aircraft
- Materials
- Runway, General Aviation Terminal, Maintenance hangars
- Certificates
- ICAO/ADV fire safety requirements
- Founded
- 1969
- Industries
- Aviation, Airport operations, Logistics
- 01
Air traffic (passenger, charter, cargo)
- 02
Handling and dispatch
- 03
Ground services and airport fire brigade
- 04
Parking and service facilities
Operations & Infrastructure
Runway
2,180 m long and 45 m wide take-off and landing runway with centreline lighting and instrument landing systems in both directions.
General Aviation Terminal
Terminal for business and private aviation, accessible around the clock.
Maintenance hangars
Maintenance hangars for commercial aircraft of the A321/Boeing 757 classes as well as maintenance operations for general aviation.
Location
Büren
DECommercial airport with terminal, administration and fire brigade
- Materials
- Runway 2,180 m; apron with five stands for medium-sized aircraft (three with jet bridges)
- Terminal and arrivals building
- Two multi-storey car parks
- Maintenance hangars for commercial aircraft
- Operations centre of the airport fire brigade
- Fuel facilities (Jet A 1, AVGAS 100LL)
- Conference room centre in the Forum
Industries
Additional services
Safety & Quality
Flight operations comply with the requirements and recommendations of ICAO and the ADV; the airport fire brigade with 45 personnel on 24-hour duty is trained in accordance with ICAO/ADV requirements. Safety-relevant occurrences can be reported via a reporting procedure.
| Evidence | Büren |
|---|---|
| ICAO/ADV fire safety requirements |
History
- 1969
Foundation of the airport company
- 1971
Opening of Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport
- 2006
Opening of the airport hotel (October)
- 2020
Announcement of insolvency proceedings in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic with business operations continuing
- 2024
55th anniversary of the airport
- 2025
Discontinuation of the last hub connection to Munich by Lufthansa (March); 711,434 passengers