Stuttgart Airport (German:
Flughafen Stuttgart, formerly
Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen) is the
international airport of
Stuttgart, the capital of the
German state Baden-Württemberg. It is christened after Stuttgart's former mayor,
Manfred Rommel and is the sixth busiest airport in Germany with 10.526.920 passengers having passed through its doors in 2015. The airport is an important hub for
Germanwings and features flights to several European cities and leisure destinations as well as two long-haul services to
Atlanta and
Abu Dhabi.