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Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport
Københavns Lufthavn

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IATA: CPH – ICAO: EKCH
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Københavns Lufthavne
Serves Copenhagen
Location Kastrup
Elevation AMSL 5 m / 16 ft
Coordinates 55°37′43″N, 12°38′49″E
Website www.cph.dk
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04L/22R 3,600 11,811 Asphalt
04R/22L 3,300 10,827 Asphalt
12/30 2,800 9,186 Asphalt/Concrete
Statistics (2006)
Passengers 20.9 million
Aircraft movements 258,356
Cargo (tonnes) 380,024

Copenhagen Airport (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup, Swedish: Köpenhamns Flygplats, Kastrup) (IATA: CPH, ICAO: EKCH) is the major airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark, though also serving Malmö, Sweden. It is located 4 nautical miles (8 km) south of Copenhagen city center, and 12 nautical miles (24 km) west of Malmö city center at the other side of the Oresund Bridge, 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 three main hubs for Scandinavian Airlines System, in addition to being a hub for Sterling. Copenhagen Airport serves about 50,000 passengers per day; 20.9 million passengers passed through the facility in 2006, making it the busiest airport in the Nordic countries, and number 17 [1] in Europe, with and a maximum capacity of 83 loadings/hour and with room for 108 airplanes. It is owned by Københavns Lufthavne, who also operate Roskilde Airport.The airport has 1700 employees excluding shops and restaurants etc [2].

Copenhagen Airport was originally called Kastrup Airport, since it is located in the small town of Kastrup, now a part of Tårnby municipality. The formal name of the airport is still Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, to distinguish it from Roskilde Airport, which formally was Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde.

History

Copenhagen airport map
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Copenhagen airport map
SAS A330 rolling for takeoff, This photo was taken from the airport viewing hill near the runway
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SAS A330 rolling for takeoff, This photo was taken from the airport viewing hill near the runway
Control tower with Icelandair jet.
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Control tower with Icelandair jet.
  • 1925 April 20 opens. One of the first private airports in the world, it opens with a grass runway.
  • 1932 6000 take-offs and landings in the year.
  • 1936–1939 New terminal, considered one of the finest examples of Nordic functionalism, is built (Architect: Vilhelm Lauritzen).
  • 1941 First hard-surface runway is built.
  • 1946 SAS is founded, an important event for Copenhagen Airport, as Copenhagen would be a main hub for the airline. Traffic increases rapidly in the first years SAS operates.
  • 1946 Copenhagen Airport is Europe's third-largest.
  • 1947 On 26 January, a KLM DC-3 crashes at the airport after stopping en route to Stockholm. 22 people die, including the Swedish prince Gustav Adolf, and the American opera singer Grace Moore.
  • 1948 150 take-offs and landings per day / 3000 passengers per day.
  • 1950 378,000 passengers/year.
  • 1954 11,000 tonnes of freight per year.
  • 1954 SAS begins the world's first trans-polar route, flying initially to Los Angeles. The route proves to be a publicity coup, and for some years Copenhagen becomes a popular transit point for Hollywood stars and producers flying to Europe.
  • 1956 1 million passengers per year. Wins the award as the world's best airport.
  • 1960s With the advent of jet airliners, debate begins about a major expansion of the airport. Jets need longer runways than had previously been used, and plans are drawn up to expand the airport either into existing communities in Kastrup or onto Saltholm, a small island. Local protests ensue and expansion is stalled for some time.
  • 1960 On 30 April, Terminal 2, also designed by Lauritzen, opens. New control tower is finished.
  • 1960 2 million passengers per year.
  • 1970s The airport suffers from acute space shortages, especially with the advent of large jets such as 747s. After initially deciding to expand to Saltholm, the project is eventually blocked by Denmark's parliament.
  • 1973 8 million passengers per year.
  • 1982 Cargo terminal opens.
  • 1986 Parking garage with 2400 spaces opens.
  • 1991 Airport is partially privatised.
  • 1998 Terminal 3 opened.
  • 1998 17 million passengers per year.
  • 1999 Baggage handling system is modernised and the Vilhelm Lauritzen terminal is moved 3.8 km down the runway to make room for new terminals, a hotel, and a train station.
  • 2000 18.4 million passengers per year.
  • 2000 A commuter train linking the airport to Copenhagen and Malmö opens.
  • 2001 A five-star Hilton hotel with 382 beds opens at the airport.
  • 2001 267,000 take-offs and landings.
  • 2006 Number of passengers exceeds 20 million for the first time (20.9 million).

Ground transport

A Swedish X2000 Train.
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A Swedish X2000 Train.

The airport can be accessed in various ways:

Airlines and destinations

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

Terminal 1
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Terminal 1

All domestic arrivals and departures:

Terminal 2

Terminal 2
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Terminal 2

Terminal 3

Terminal 3
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Terminal 3
  • Air Baltic (Kaliningrad, Liepaja, Riga, Vilnius)
  • Air One (Rome-Fiumicino)
  • Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • Blue1 (Helsinki)
  • bmi
    • operated by bmi regional (Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford)
  • Coast Air (Haugesund)
  • Estonian Air (Tallinn)
  • Icelandair (Reykjavik-Keflavík)
  • Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
  • NextJet (Örebro)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Brussels, Chicago-O'Hare, Dubai [begins October 2007] [3], Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Kangerlussuaq [resumes summer 2008], Kristiansand, London-City, London-Heathrow, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Munich, Newark, Nice, Oslo, Palanga, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznan, Prague, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg, Seattle/Tacoma, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tampere, Tokyo-Narita, Turku, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Zürich – see T1 for domestic destinations)
    • operated by Cimber Air (Arvidsjaur [seasonal], Cologne/Bonn, Jönköping, Luxembourg, Lyon, Nuremberg, Tampere)
  • Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
  • Skyways Express (Karlstad, Linköping)
  • Spanair (Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca)
  • Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
  • Widerøe (Sandefjord, Stavanger, Trondheim)

Incidents and accidents

On January 26, 1947, a KLM Douglas Dakota, PH-TCR, crashed after takeoff from Copenhagen, killing all 22 onboard, including Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden.
The delayed KLM flight from Amsterdam had landed at Copenhagen for a routine stop before continuing to Stockholm. Soon after the Douglas DC-3 aircraft took off, it climbed to an altitude of about 50 meters (150 feet), stalled, and plummeted nose-first to the ground where it exploded on impact. Also aboard the ill-fated flight was American singer and actress Grace Moore. The investigation showed that the crash had been caused by a forgotten rudder lock. Short of time, the captain never performed his checklist and took off not realizing the lock was still in place.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busiest_airports_in_Europe_by_passenger_traffic
  2. ^ http://www.cph.dk/CPH/UK/ABOUT+CPH/
  3. ^ [1]

External links

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