# Hof-Plauen Airport (HOQ)

> Hof, DE · IATA: HOQ · ICAO: EDQM · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `HOQ` |
| ICAO | `EDQM` |
| City | Hof |
| Country | DE |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 597 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 50.28854, 11.85288 |

## Description

Business jets, freight charters and student pilots — that is the traffic mix at Hof–Plauen Airport (IATA: HOQ, ICAO: EDQM), which recorded roughly 9,000 movements in 2022 and no longer serves any scheduled route. The field sits at about 600 metres above sea level in Upper Franconia, close to the Saxon border and within half an hour's drive of the Czech Republic, and is run by Flughafen Hof-Plauen GmbH & Co. KG, owned by the city of Hof (60 per cent) and the surrounding district (40 per cent). Cargo here means ad-hoc work: courier runs and urgent spare parts for the region's textile, plastics and automotive supply industry, flown on light aircraft. There is no cargo terminal, no air pallet handling and no freighter programme, so planned air freight from Hof, Plauen and the Vogtland leaves by road instead. The A9 Berlin–Munich and the A72 towards Chemnitz and Leipzig pass the airport directly, feeding trucks to Nuremberg (NUE) some 100 kilometres to the south-west and to Leipzig/Halle (LEJ) about 170 kilometres north, DHL's European air freight hub. Recent operator statements point to a shrinking operating deficit and a deliberate push to win more business aviation customers.

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