# Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF)

> Erfurt, DE · IATA: ERF · ICAO: EDDE · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `ERF` |
| ICAO | `EDDE` |
| City | Erfurt |
| Country | DE |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 316 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 50.97980, 10.95810 |

## Description

Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF/EDDE) holds something rare in Germany — permission to operate at night — yet handled just 28 tonnes of air cargo in 2024, a useful reminder that night rights alone do not create a freight location. The airport is run by Flughafen Erfurt GmbH, owned 95 percent by the Free State of Thuringia and 5 percent by the City of Erfurt, and its 2024 traffic of 169,732 passengers across 6,143 movements comes largely from leisure charter flying. On the freight side the airport lists express and night air cargo flights for FedEx and TNT along with its own handling operation; movements are capped at an average of five per night, and jet aircraft between 22:00 and 06:00 face additional noise conditions. In practice that suits courier and express feeder work plus charter and special flights, not scheduled freighters, widebody equipment or consolidation of general cargo. Landside access is strong: the A4 and A71 motorways and the Erfurt ICE hub on the Berlin–Munich and Frankfurt–Erfurt high-speed lines make road feeder services straightforward. Thuringian air freight therefore normally moves via Leipzig/Halle (LEJ) with its DHL European hub some 130 kilometres away, or via Frankfurt (FRA), with Nuremberg (NUE), Dresden (DRS) and Cologne/Bonn (CGN) as further options.

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