New destination for Maastricht: Ryanair announces Porto route
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, announced today (14th June 2010) that it will launch a new route from Maastricht Aachen airport to Porto in the North of Portugal. This route will be launched on the 5th of November 2010 and will be operated twice per week on Mondays and Fridays. Click here ›

Ryanair doubles number of routes from Maastricht Aachen Airport
The Irish low fare airline Ryanair announced it is adding two new destinations to it’s network at Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA). The new destinations are Faro, in the Algarve region in Southern Portugal and Malaga in Southern Spain. Together with the new service to Trapani, announced in November, the total number of available Ryanair services at MAA is 6, double the number the airline has offered thus far.  Click here ›

Cargo record Maastricht Aachen Airport in November
During the month November Maastricht Aachen Airport has continued it’s growth in cargo volumes. As a result the all time record set during the month October was broken. A total 8,4 million kilo’s were processed at the airport.  Click here ›

Ryanair announces new route to Trapani
Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, today announced a new route from Maastricht-Aachen Airport to its base in Trapani, Italy. Trapani will see an increase from two to four planes by next March and connects Maastricht for the first time with the Italian island of Sicily as of the 29th of March 2010. Click here ›

Iberia Cargo announces new service to Maastricht Aachen Airport
Today Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) and Iberia Cargo proudly announce the start of a twice weekly service connecting MAA with Madrid Barajas Airport and further to destinations in Iberia Cargo’s network in Central and South America such as Sao Paolo, Bogota, Quito & Mexico City. The inaugural flight arrived at Maastricht on 20 November 2009 at 11h10 local time. The new cargo route will be served with a Boeing 757 freighter. Click here ›

October record-month for cargo at Maastricht Aachen Airport
During the month of October 8,200 tonnes of cargo were handled at Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA). Never before was more cargo processed in one month at the airport. Click here ›

New Ryanair destination: 3x weekly to Pisa!
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, announced today (29th January 2009) that it will launch a new route from Maastricht-Aachen airport to Pisa (Florence) in Tuscany. This route will be launched on the 1st of April 2009 and will be operated three times per week.  Click here ›

Passenger and cargo volumes Maastricht Aachen Airport increase in 2008
Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) realised a considerable increase in both passenger and cargo volumes in the year 2008. A total of 252.000 passengers used the airport, an increase of 60% compared to 2007. Subsidiary company Maastricht Handling Services (MHS) processed 87 million kilograms of cargo, representing an increase of 8% over the 2007 volumes. Click here ›

Ryanair reinstates routes from MAA per April 2009
Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the Ryanair flights to Barcelona-Girona and Alicante per April 2009. The airport and airline have reached agreement on this earlier this week. The decision follows an announcement of the closure of the routes per jJanuary 8th due to the negative effects of the Dutch ecotax, made two weeks ago. Click here ›

Ryanair announces stop of activities at Maastricht Aachen Airport during winter
Today Ryanair announced it will close the routes in and out of Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) as per January 8th 2009. During the winter months the Dutch governments “ecotax” hinders the sustainability of the operations. The airport and Ryanair are in negotiation regarding the continuation of flights during the 2009 summer season. Click here ›

Halfjaarresultaten MAA
In the first six months of the current financial year (April 1st – September 30th 2008) Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) has realised considerable growth compared to the previous year. Both passenger and cargo services, the airports main activities, have contributed to this result. In comparison to the first six months of the 2007/’08 financial year, cargo volumes have increased by 18% to a total of 46.000 tons. During the first six months of the 2007/2008 financial year, the number of passengers has more than doubled to a total of 155.000.  Click here ›

KLM anounces termination of Maastricht Aachen Airport – Amsterdam Schiphol service
KLM has announced the termination of the 3x daily service connecting Maastricht Aachen Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with the start of the coming winter season (October 29th 2008). The decisions ends the last domestic service in the Netherlands which has been operated since 1966. KLM mentions the current economic circumstances resulting in disappointing financial performance as main motivation for the cancellation. The Dutch excotax has harmed the route as well and motivated KLM to publish flights from Dusseldorf on it’s Dutch website. Click here ›

MAA and Ryanair regret appeal court judgement to keep "ecotax" unaltered
Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) and Ryanair regret the judgement by an appeal court to push forward with the so called “ecotax” as planned. MAA and Ryanair had asked the courts to suspend the tax until the European Commission had examined whether or not it constituted an illegal form of state aid to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Although the judgement ends the mutual efforts of Ryanair and MAA in the Dutch courts the battle will be taken to Brussels where Ryanair filed a complaint on the same matter in February 2008. Click here ›

100000th Ryanair passenger at MAA
On Tuesday the 24th of June, Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) and Ryanair, Europe’s largest low cost airline, celebrated the 100.000 passenger milestone. The number was reached just over a year since the start of Ryanair’s first route to/from the airport, Barcelona-Girona, launched June 2nd 2007. Due to high popularity of the route expansions to Valencia (started Oct. 28th 2007) and Alicante (started Nov. 2nd 2007) were soon announced. With this announcement Ryanair voiced the expectation to welcome 100.000 passengers per year at MAA. Due to high load factors the number has been reached already. Click here ›

KLM Airbus A330-200 completes 1st ILS CATIIIb Landing at MAA
On Friday, March 14 the new ILS CAT IIIb system at Maastricht Aachen Airport was officially inaugurated. An KLM Airbus A330-200 was the first aircraft to land using the system. Maastricht Aachen Airport is, besides Schiphol Airport, the only other Dutch airport operating this system.  Click here ›

MAA & Ryanair jointly figt against ecotax
Today Ryanair has announced to join Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) in it’s court case against the Dutch government. The subject of the lawsuit is the much debated “ecotax” which will be introduced on July 1st, 2008. The tax is in violation with European law, and contradicting international aviation agreements signed by the Netherlands. Presented as a tax to compensate CO2 emissions from aviation, not a single euro of the €350 million the government hopes to raise will directly benefit the environment. Rather the tax revenues are used to cover a general budget deficit. Click here ›

Volareweb announces termination of Maastricht Aachen Airport – Milan Malpensa from April 2008.
Volareweb has announced the termination of the service Maastricht-Milan. "Unfortunately, despite promising signs, the company has to take this unfortunate course due to the decision of the Dutch government to introduce the €11,25 Ecotax per departing passenger as from July 1st ". Click here ›

Newyear’s speech 2008
On January 8th 2008 Chairman of Holding Businesspark Luchthaven Maastricht Jan Tindemans held the annual new years speech during the new years reception. In this speech the year 2007 was reviewed. More importantly the new corporate structure, style and plans for the future were presented. Click here ›

Maastricht Handling Services: New Team, New Future, New Opportunities!
Maastricht Aachen Airport is delighted to announce a fresh and dynamic approach to its handling business with the recruitment of a new senior management team at Maastricht Handling Services (MHS). With increasing demands on MHS as our cargo business continues to develop, this team is tasked with maintaining and enhancing the quality and high standard of service which our customers have come to expect.  Click here ›

New cargo develoment manager appointed at Maastricht Aachen Airport
As per December 1st 2007, Mr. Val Karren is appointed as (Air) Cargo Development Manager at Maastricht Aachen Airport. The past seven years Val Karren has been employed in at Expeditors International and has built up a strong track record in the Air Cargo industry. Click here ›

Maastricht Aachen Airport first Dutch airport to instal LED-lighting.
Maastricht Aachen Airport has chosen Siemens Airfields to install the latest technology in Airfield Ground Lighting. The unique form of lighting has a low energy consumption and is clearly visible for Pilots over long distances. LED-lights have a lifetime which exceeds Halogen lights by over a hundred times. These unique qualities lead to less maintenance, up to 60% reduction in energy consumption and make LED-lighting a great technology from an environmental perspective. In selecting new installations and equipment Maastricht Aachen Airport adheres great value to these environmental aspects. Click here ›

Ryanair celebrates record bookings Maastricht Aachen Airport-Valencia with 50% reductions!
The new route to Valencia is already breaking records while flights have not even commenced. Over 4600 passengers have already booked a ticket for the route stating October 30th. Ryanair has announced this makes the route their best in the Netherlands. Click here ›

New airline and destination: Fly to Milan with Volareweb.com!
On Sunday the 28th of October the Italian Low Cost Carrier Volareweb.com will start a new route between Maastricht Aachen Airport and Milan Malpensa. This route is part of the new network of Volareweb.com. Click here ›

Stella Aviation Academy starts pilot trainings at Maastricht Aachen Airport
Stella Aviaion Academy, the largest pilot training institute in the Netherlands has started training pilots and instructors at Maastricht Aachen Airport. Further training institutes of the academy are located at Teuge Airport and Groningen Airport Eelde. Click here ›

New all year routes announced to ALICANTE and VALENCIA
Ryanair, Europe's largest low cost airline has announced that it will start two new all year routes from Maastricht Aachen Airport. Starting November 14th, Ryanair will fly 4 weekly services to Alicante and as of October 31st, 3 weekly services to Valencia. The tariffs start as low as € 10 for a one-way, including tax and charges. Flights can be booked immediately on www.ryanair.com or www.maa.nl.  Click here ›

AKO opens 100th outlet at Maastricht Aachen Airport
On Friday July 20th 2007 the new AKO shop was opened in the departures hall of Maastricht Aachen Airport. A special occasion, as this shop is the 100th AKO outlet in the Netherlands. In the shop you will find an (international-) assortment of newspapers, magazines and books and an assortment of sweets, office supplies, souvenirs, tobacco and postal cards. Click here ›

Memorandum of understanding for establishment Maastricht Maintenance Boulevard signed
Today five Dutch MRO companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a Maintenance Boulevard at Maastricht Aachen Airport. Maintenance Boulevard is an initiative for Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) in which multiple Dutch Aircraft Maintenance organizations will be housed on a single location to bundle their activities. In December 2006 Maastricht Aachen Airport was chosen as the most favourable location for the project after a study conducted by the Netherlands Aerospace Group (NAG). Click here ›

New Director of Business Development
As of Tuesday the 29th of May 2007 Mr. Sander J. Heijmans has been appointed as the Director of Business Development at Maastricht Aachen Airport. Mr. Heijmans has previously held the position of Business Unit Manager responsible for passenger traffic with Martinair Holland. Click here ›

Start of Ryanair operation to Barcelona getting very close!
On Saturday June 2nd Ryanair will operate the first flight between Maastricht Aachen Airport and Barcelona-Girona. For this special occasion, Maastricht Aachen Airport and Ryanair have planned some activities for departing passengers to start their journeys in an unique ambiance. Click here ›

Maastricht Aviation Aircraft Services spray paints plane in unique colours
On Thursday 7th December, the first plane of the brand new British airline SILVERJET took to the skies from Maastricht Aachen Airport. This striking, silver grey Boeing 767 is the first to be sprayed in SILVERJET colours by Maastricht Aviation Aircraft Services. Maastricht Aviation Aircraft Services is a company of Irish origin that specialises in aircraft painting. From the start of next year, the plane will provide a luxury business class service for SILVERJET between London and New York.  Click here ›

Maastricht Aachen Airport chosen as aircraft maintenance growth centre
A high level study has concluded that Maastricht Aachen Airport should be the location of a “Maintenance Boulevard “ for The Netherlands. The initiative means that Maastricht should be developed as a centre of excellence for aircraft maintenance. The study was commissioed by the Netherlands Aerospace Group, on behalf of twelve companies which are operate in the field of aircraft-maintenance. Three airports and regions participated in the study; Eindhoven Airport, Maastricht Aachen Airport and Enschede Airport Twente.  Click here ›

Cargolux air freight boost for Maastricht Aachen Airport
Cargolux , the Luxembourg based all cargo airline has increased the frequency of flights from Johannesburg (South-Africa) to Maastricht from three to four. The fourth flight will arrive on Thursday mornings. Click here ›

New rules for hand luggage
New rules on what is permitted in hand luggage will take effect on 6 November 2006 Click here ›