jets to use it. On 12 July 1970, a Boeing 747 landed at the airport for the first time and attracted 20,000 visitors. The apron was enlarged in 1977 and in 1981 a new passenger terminal with an observation deck and a restaurant replaced the previous building. In December 1986, the one million passenger mark was passed for the first time. Development from the 1990s In 1997/98, Air Berlin established a winter hub at the airport, making it the airline's second most important tourist interchange airport, after Palma de Mallorca. The new control tower commenced operations in 1999 and the metro station was opened. In 2005 Nuremberg Airport celebrated its 50th anniversary with 45,000 visitors. Nuremberg Airport has been voted "Best German Airport" by readers of the Business Traveller magazine consecutively since 2008. In April 2013 Air Berlin permanently shut down its winter seasonal hub in Nuremberg which had been maintained for several years. In December 2014 the airport was named after Albrecht Dürer, who was born in Nuremberg. Subsequently the subway station was adorned with reproductions of Dürer works. In October 2016, Ryanair announced it would open a base at Nuremberg Airport consisting of two aircraft while four additional routes were inaugurated. In the same month, Air Berlin announced it would close its maintenance facilities at the airport due to cost cutting and restructuring measures. Shortly after, Germania announced it would open a new base at Nuremberg Airport consisting of one aircraft which served several new leisure routes. 2017 saw the bankruptcy of Air Berlin ending a trend of Air Berlin withdrawing service from the airport with the grounding of all Air Berlin flights. In January 2018, Eurowings announced it would establish a base at the airport consisting of one aircraft and four new routes as well as increased frequencies. After the demise of Germania in early 2019, TUI fly Deutschland announced it would base aircraft in Nuremberg to take over several leisure destinations. In late 2019 Ryanair announced the closure of their base in Nuremberg effective with the end of the winter schedule. Also in 2019 Corendon airlines announced a new base at NUE with over 50 weekly departures in the summer season. The company further expressed their commitment to the region with a special aircraft livery Boeing 737-800 honoring local association football team 1. FC Nürnberg with whom they entered a partnership in 2020. In June 2021,