Karup Airport
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| Karup Airport (KRP) Karup Lufthavn The airport in Jutlands Heart |
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| IATA: KRP – ICAO: EKKA | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public / Military | ||
| Owner | Karup Lufthavn a.m.b.a. | ||
| Serves | Karup, Denmark | ||
| Location | Viborg / Herning | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 170 ft / 52 m | ||
| Coordinates | 56°17′51″N 009°07′29″E / 56.2975°N 9.12472°ECoordinates: 56°17′51″N 009°07′29″E / 56.2975°N 9.12472°E | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 09L/27R | 10,000 | 3,048 | Asphalt [1] |
| 09R/27L | 9,622 | 2,933 | Concrete/Asphalt [1] |
| 04/22 | 3,089 | 940 | Concrete/Asphalt [1] |
| 14/32 | 2,565 | 782 | Concrete/Asphalt [1] |
| Statistics | |||
| Passengers 2008 | 197.258 | ||
| Passengers 2007 | 216.461 | ||
| Passengers 2006 | 208.767 | ||
| Passengers 2005 | 195.607 | ||
Karup Airport (Danish: Karup Lufthavn) is an airport in Denmark.
At the request of some middle-and West Jutland politicians airport, it was opened on 1 November 1965 with the construction of the first flight service between Karup and Copenhagen.
Airport ownership consisted of Viborg and Ringkjøbing county council districts and the municipalities of Herning, Holstebro, Viborg, Skive, Ikast, Karup, Struer, Ringkøbing, Lemvig and Skjern. It was agreed that the Danish airline - later SAS - would start flying on the route to the owners favored a subsidy. In the beginning there was a single daily departures with 15 people Heron machine. The route was a success and there was no need for the guarantee. On the contrary, the airport's ongoing development could be financed with operating without public subsidy other than the owners' original deposits.
Today, the airport have up to 14 flights daily and about 200,000 passengers annually. The airport is operated today by Cimber Sterling and several national and international taxifly companies.
In 1968 the airport's first terminal was built. Until then, it was borrowed premises at the controller station. In 1991 inaugurated the present terminal, Glass House on unit. The new terminal designed by Architect Firm Torsten Riis Andersen to design
Lemvig and Skjern municipality in 2002 sold their shares to Karup councils. (Now Viborg councils.).
Owners at. 1/1-2007 is Herning, Holstebro, Ikast-Brande, Lemvig, Ringkobing-Skjern, Silkeborg, Skive, Struer and Viborg county councils.
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[edit] Destinations
Cimber Sterling operates the following routes as of 2009:
- Copenhagen (up to 14 trips/day)
- Beziers (seasonal)
- Parma (seasonal)
- Forlì (seasonal)
- Florence (seasonal)
- Trieste (seasonal)
- Salzburg (seasonal)
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- AIP Denmark: Karup - EKKA
- VFR Flight Guide Denmark: Karup - EKKA
[edit] Notes
[edit] External links
- Karup Airport (English)
- Karup Lufthavn (Danish)
- Flyvestation Karup (Danish)
- Airport information for EKKA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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