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Luxembourg

A Journey Through Time

1944 — 2008

1940s
1944

After US Army engineers carried out repairs, the Sandweiler airfield opened on 18 September 1944 as Advanced Landing Ground A-97.

1945

The Sandweiler airfield, used by US forces from late 1944, was handed back to Luxembourgish control on 15 August 1945.

1970s
1975

A new terminal building was completed in 1975. It stayed the airport's only passenger terminal for about 30 years, until Terminal B opened in 2004.

2000s
2004

Terminal B opened in 2004, ending three decades in which the 1975 building had been the only passenger terminal at Luxembourg.

2008

Construction of the new Terminal A started in 2005, and the building was inaugurated in May 2008, four years after Terminal B had opened.

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