The World’s Oldest Commercial Airport Has Been Operating Since 1911 As A Zeppelin Base
An Emirates Boeing 777-300ER touches down in northern Germany most days of the week, taxis past a terminal complex rebuilt to swallow the Airbus A380, and rolls to a stop on ground that has been receiving aircraft since before the Titanic sank. Hamburg Airport (HAM) has been selling tickets, in one form or another, since January 1911, which makes it, by most reckonings, the oldest continuously operating commercial airport on Earth. It just didn’t start out selling tickets for airplanes.