Cologne Bonn Airport
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Flughafen Köln/Bonn
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|- !colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background-color: #4682B4; color: white;" |Runways |- !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|Direction !bgcolor="lightgrey" colspan="2"|Length !bgcolor="lightgrey" rowspan="2"|Surface |- !bgcolor="lightgrey"|ft !bgcolor="lightgrey"|m |- !align="left" valign="top"|14L/32R |valign="top" align="right"|12,516 |valign="top" align="right"|3,815 |valign="top"|Asphalt |- !align="left" valign="top"|14R/32L |valign="top" align="right"|6,122 |valign="top" align="right"|1,866 |valign="top"|Asphalt |- !align="left" valign="top"|06/24 |valign="top" align="right"|8,070 |valign="top" align="right"|2,460 |valign="top"|Concrete
Cologne/Bonn Airport , also called Konrad-Adenauer-Flughafen or Flughafen Köln-Wahn, is located in the Wahner Heide nature reserve, 15 km south-east of Cologne and 20 km north-east of Bonn. It is the sixth largest airport in Germany. In terms of cargo flights it is No. 2. In 2005 the number of passengers climbed to 9,5 million.
History
In 1913 the first plane took off from the Wahner Heide military training area on an artillery reconnaissance flight. In 1939 an airfield was built for the German Luftwaffe.After World War II, British troops took over and expanded the airport. A 1,866m-runway was built in this period. In 1951 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic.
During the 50s and 60s two more runways and a new terminal were constructed. On 1 November 1970 a Boeing 747 took off for New York for the first time.
In 1986 Cologne/Bonn Airport was chosen by UPS as the location for their European hub.
In the late 90s the Airport started an expansion program. Several new parking lots and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a railway station on the new ICE-high-speed-track Cologne-Frankfurt was opened.
Among several other new air connections in 2006 is a daily transatlantic flight to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines.
Low-cost carriers
Coinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacity. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. Consequently, Germanwings and Hapag-Lloyd Express started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. They were joined by easyJet in late 2003 and Wizzair in June 2006.As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared to 2002.
The airport is actively searching for airlines willing to establish the first trans-atlantic low-cost flights.
Airlines and Destinations
Terminal 1
- Austrian Airlines
- *Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
- Centralwings (Katowice, Wroclaw)
- Dau Air (Rostock)
- European Air Express (Genf, Nürnberg)
- Germanwings (Alicante, Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Budapest, Danzig, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Gothenburg-Saeve, Helsinki, Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Jerez de la Frontera, Krakau, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Mailand-Malpensa, Moskow-Vnukovo, Munich, Nizza, Oslo, Palma, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prag, Rom, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Thessaloniki, Verona, Warsaw, Wien, Zagreb, Zürich)
- Hamburg International (Lourdes)
- Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Erfurt)
- Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London-Heathrow, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pisa)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
Terminal 2
- Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Athen, Barcelona, Bilbao, Budapest, Catania, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Korfu, Kos, Las Palmas, Mahon, Malaga, Monastir, Murcia, Nürnberg, Palma, Teneriffa, Thessaloniki)
- Air Alps
- Air Europa
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Atlasjet (Antalya, Istanbul)
- Air Via (Varna)
- B&H Airlines (Sarajevo)
- Blue Wings (Istanbul)
- Bulgaria Air (Burgas, Varna)
- Condor Airlines (Antalya, Arrecife, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Las Palmas, Marsa Alam, Palma, Teneriffa)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- dba (Berlin-Tempelhof, Lamezia Terme, Lourdes, München, Tiflis)
- easyJet (Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Nottingham/East Midlands)
- FlyLal (Palanga)
- Hapagfly (Antalya, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Las Palmas, Rhodos, Tel Aviv)
- HLX.com (Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham (UK), Cagliari, Catania, Genua, Hamburg, Klagenfurt, Manchester (UK), Marseille, Neapel, Olbia, Palermo, Palma, Pisa, Porto, Rijeka, Rimini, Salzburg, Valencia, Venedig, Westerland/Sylt)
- Hemus Air (Sofia)
- Inter Airlines (Antalya)
- InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
- Iran Air (Teheran)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- * KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- KrasAir
- LTU International (Antalya, Arrecife, Burgas, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas, Palma, Varna)
- Onur Air (Antalya)
- Sky Airlines (Antalya)
- SkyEurope (Bratislava)
- Spanair (Palma de Mallorca)
- SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Izmir)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Kayseri)
- Tunisair (Monastir)
- UM Airlines (Simferopol)
- Wizz Air (Gdansk, Katowice)
External links
- [Cologne Bonn Airport] (official site)
- [World Aero Data on this airport (EDDK)]
- [A-Z World Airports: Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN/EDDK)]
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