From pitch to project: H&C Stader accompanies Düsseldorf Airport into its anniversary year

Düsseldorf/Mannheim. Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH will celebrate its centenary in 2027. The team at H&C Stader won the contract for the historical review with its pitch. The project is based on comprehensive research, which will be used to digitise and index historical materials and prepare them for the anniversary in a central content pool. The airport's extensive image archive, comprising over 30,000 photographs, poses a particular challenge.

Düsseldorf Airport opened in the spring of 1927. After an interruption during the Second World War, it resumed civilian operations in 1948 and grew over the following decades to become the central commercial airport for North Rhine-Westphalia. The construction of the new terminal in the 1970s and the comprehensive modernisation after the fire in 1996 were formative events. Today, the airport serves a catchment area of over 18 million people and is one of the largest airports in Germany – with a wide range of services from air travel to shopping and gastronomy to event and conference rooms.