Copenhagen Airport
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Copenhagen Airport (Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup in Danish) is the major airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden, located 8 km south of Copenhagen city center on the island Amager. The airport lies mainly in the municipality of Tårnby, with a small portion in neighboring Dragør. The airport is one of two main hubs for Scandinavian Airlines System. Copenhagen Airport serves about 50,000 passengers per day. 20 million passengers passed through the facility in 2005, making it the busiest airport in the Nordic countries, and number 11 in Europe. In 2006 the airport is expected to handle 21.5 million passengers.
Copenhagen Airports A/S also operates Roskilde Airport and owns a 49% stake in Newcastle Airport.
Copenhagen Airport was originally called Kastrup Airport, since it is located in the small town of Kastrup, now a part of Tårnby. The formal name of the airport is still Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, to distinguish it from Roskilde Airport, which is formally Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde.
The airport has 1700 employees, and has a maximum capacity of 83 loadings/hour, with room for 108 airplanes.
Kastrup has won many awards for being one of the best airports in the world including a place on Forbes list of The World's Ten Best Airport Lounges http://www.forbes.com/lists/2001/10/25/1025feat_2.html and the ninth best airport of the world in Skytrax's passenger survey http://www.airlinequality.com/2005/airport-05-ent.htm. The airport has collected a variety of awards at its [homepage]
History
- 1925 April 20 opened. It was one of the first private airports in the world. It opened with a grass runway.
- 1932 6000 Take offs and landings in the year.
- 1939 New terminal building built (Designer: Vilhelm Lauritzen).
- 1941 First hard-surface runway built.
- 1948 150 Take offs and landings per day / 3000 Passengers per day.
- 1954 11,000 Tons of freight per year.
- 1956 1 million passenger per year. Won the award as the world's best airport.
- 1960 10th of May Terminal 2 opened. New control tower finished.
- 1982 Cargo terminal opened.
- 1986 Parking garage with 2400 spaces opened.
- 1998 Terminal 3 opened.
- 1999 Baggage handling system modernised and the Vilhelm Lauritzen terminal is moved 3,8km down the runway to make room for new terminals a hotel and a train station.
- 2000 20-22 million Passengers per year.
- 2001 A 5 star Hilton hotel with 382 beds is opened at the airport.
- 2001 267,000 take offs and landings.
Accessibility
The airport can be accessed in various ways:- Motorway - the E20 runs right by the airport, and junctions 15, 16, and 17 are situated nearby. The airport has 8,600 parking spaces.
- Bus - HUR buses 12, 30, 36, and express-bus 250S and Greyhound bus 999 all stop at the airport; bus 888, express-bus to Jutland, also stops at the airport. HUR bus 2A stops near the airport.
- Rail - the airport's station is located underneath Terminal 3 and is served by InterCity trains and regional trains, as well as Kystbanen going to Copenhagen, the rest of Denmark and Sweden.
- Metro - a metro station will open in October 2007, linking the airport with the city centre.
Terminals
Copenhagen Airport has three terminals.Terminals 2 and 3 share a common airside passenger concourse and also share the arrivals section (customs and baggage claim) which is physically located in Terminal 3.
Terminal 1
All domestic arrivals and departures:
- Cimber Air (Aalborg, Billund, Karup, Bornholm, Sønderborg – see T2, T3 for international destinations)
- Danish Air Transport (Bornholm)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Aalborg, Århus – see T3 for international destinations)
- Flying.dk (Thisted)
Terminal 2
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Hamburg)
- Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Strasbourg)
- Air Greenland (Kangerlussuaq, Narsarsuaq)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv)
- Atlantic Airways (Faroe Islands)
- Britannia
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Cimber Air (Bucharest, Basel, Palanga, Wroclaw – see T1 for domestic destinations)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Easyjet (Berlin-Schoenefeld, London-Stansted)
- FaroeJet (Faroe Islands)
- Finnair (Helsinki, Gothenburg)
- Flynordic (Stockholm)
- Iberia Airlines (Madrid)
- Icelandair (Reykjavik)
- Iceland Express (Reykjavik)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- Kish Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- LOT Polish (Warsaw)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Balaton)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
- MyTravel Airways
- Norwegian (Oslo)
- Noviair
- Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Bremen)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore)
- Pulkovo Aviation (St. Petersburg)
- SkyEurope (Bratislava, Budapest)
- Smart Wings (Prague)
- SN Brussels (Brussels)
- Sterling (Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Tempelhof, Billund, Budapest, Cairo, Crete/Chania, Edinburgh, Faro/Algarve, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Gran Canaria, Lanzorate, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Madrid, Malaga, Milan-Malpensa, Montpellier, Munich, Nice, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris/Beauvais-Tille, Prague, Rome-Ciampino, Salzburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife, Venice)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Stockholm)
- Transavia (Amsterdam)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul, Kayseri, Konya)
Terminal 3
- Air Baltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- Air One (Rome-Fiumicino)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Blue1 (Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa)
- bmi (Edinburgh, Glasgow)
- Cimber Air (see terminal 2)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham (UK), Brussels, Budapest, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Joenkoeping, Krakow, Kristiansand, London-City, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester (UK), Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Munich, Newark, Newcastle, Nice, Nuremburg, Oslo, Palanga, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznan, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg (RU), Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai-Pudong, Stavanger, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tampere (autumn 2006), Tokyo-Narita, Vesteraas, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Zurich – see T1 for domestic destinations)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Skyways Express (Karlstad, Linköping, Örebro, Norrköping)
- Spanair (Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Palma Mallorca)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
- Varig (London-Heathrow, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
- Widerøe (Sandefjord, Stavanger, Trondheim)
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