Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day.

The federal government provided €14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station.

[7] It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement.

After the commissioning of the SkyTrain had been delayed by a year due to software problems, the train stopped operations six times in the first two weeks of public operations and was then closed to 26 August.

These through tracks for trains not stopping at the station allow operations at speeds of up to 200 km/h (120 mph).