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Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup

Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerKøbenhavns Lufthavne
ServesCopenhagen, Denmark
LocationKastrup, Tårnby
Hub for
Elevation AMSL5 m / 17 ft
Websitecph.dk
Map
CPH is located in Denmark
CPH
CPH
Location within Denmark
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 (2015)
Passengers26,610,332
Domestic1,612,884
International24,997,448
Aircraft movements254,838
Cargo (tonnes)N.A.
Source: AIP[1]

Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup) or Copenhagen Airport (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn; IATA: CPH, ICAO: EKCH) is the main international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark, the entire Zealand, the Øresund Region, and a large part of southern Sweden (not only Scania). It is the largest airport in the Nordic countries with 26.6 million passengers in 2015 and one of the oldest international airports in Europe. Furthermore, it is by far the busiest airport for international travel in Scandinavia.[2]

The airport is located on the island of Amager, just 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Copenhagen city centre, and 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Malmö city centre via the Øresund Bridge. The airport covers an area of 11.8 square kilometres.[3] Most of the airport is situated in the municipality of Tårnby, with a small portion in neighbouring Dragør.

The airport is the main hub out of three used by Scandinavian Airlines and is also an operating base for Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and Norwegian Air Shuttle. Copenhagen Airport handles around 60 scheduled airlines, and has a maximum operation capability of 83 operations/hour, and a total of 108 jet bridge and remote parking stands. Unlike other Scandinavian airports, a considerable share of the airport's passengers are international. In 2015, 6.1% of passengers travelled to and from other Danish airports, 83.5% to/from other European airports, and 10.4% were intercontinental passengers.[4] The airport is owned by Københavns Lufthavne, which also operates Roskilde Airport. The airport employs 1700 staff (excluding shops, restaurants etc.).[5]

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

History

The airport was inaugurated 20 April 1925 and was one of the first civil airports in the world. It consisted of a large, impressive terminal built of wood, a couple of hangars, a balloon mast, a hydroplane landing stage and a few grassy meadows that could be used as runways. The grass on the runways was kept short by sheep, which were shepherded away before take-offs and landings. From 1932 to 1939, takeoffs and landings increased from 6,000 to 50,000 and passenger number increased to 72,000. Between 1936 and 1939, a new terminal was built, considered one of the finest examples of Nordic functionalism. The terminal was designed by Vilhelm Lauritzen, who was considered a pioneer among architects, in terms not only of architecture and construction, but also of service and passenger comfort.[6]

In the years of World War II, the Copenhagen airport was closed for civil operations except for periodic flights to destinations in Sweden, Germany, and Austria. In the summer of 1941 the first hard-surface runway opened. It was 1,400 metres long and 65 metres wide. When World War II ended in May 1945, the Copenhagen airport was the most modern international airport in Europe, because the airport remained untouched by actual acts of war.

On 1 August 1947, Scandinavian Airlines was founded, an important event for the Copenhagen Airport, as Copenhagen was to be the main hub for the airline. Traffic increased rapidly in the first years Scandinavian Airlines operated. On 26 January 1947, a KLM Douglas DC-3 "Dakota" crashed at the airport after stopping en route to Stockholm. 22 people on board died, including the Swedish prince Gustav Adolf and the American opera singer Grace Moore. In 1948 Copenhagen airport was third largest airport in Europe with 150 daily takeoffs and almost 300,000 passengers for the year. The airport continued its rapid growth. The terminal was expanded several times and new hangars were erected.

In 1954 Scandinavian Airlines begins the world's first trans-polar route, flying initially to Los Angeles. The route proved to be a publicity coup, and for some years Copenhagen became a popular transit point for Hollywood stars and producers flying to Europe - also the airport handled 11,000 tonnes of freight per year. In 1956 the airport handled 1 million passengers per year and won the award[clarification needed] for the world's best airport. The runways were lengthened and fitted with technically advanced equipment.

By 10 May 1960, when the new airport terminal (now Terminal 2) was inaugurated, the daily number of jet operations had increased to 28, and still traffic kept on growing. The large new airport terminal soon became too small, and in 1969 yet another huge expansion programme was launched. Domestic traffic was relocated to a new domestic terminal (the eastern part of Terminal 1). The (current) international terminal was supplemented with a new pier (C) and a separate arrivals hall (the building between Terminals 2 and 3). A new control tower and 3,600 metres of additional runways allowed take-offs and landings to take place at the same time. When the comprehensive expansion was completed in 1972, the number of take-offs and landings exceeded 180,000 and there were more than eight million passengers.[7]

Throughout the 1970s, airport traffic continued to grow, but the airport was not expanded further. A new large airport located at the island of Saltholm (with a connecting bridge to Denmark and Sweden) was on the drawing board. It would be a huge investment, and the proposal was evaluated thoroughly by many experts. In 1980, however, the Danish parliament instead decided to expand the capacity of Copenhagen airport to 20-22 million passengers by the year 2000. This solution was far cheaper than building a new airport and because the new types of aircraft were less noisy, an airport on Saltholm did not offer a decisive environmental gain. In 1973 the airport handled 8 million passengers per year. The third (long) runway opens and the dual runway system (04L/22R-04R/22L) opened, strongly expanding the starts and landings capacity.

The expansion of the airport began in 1982, after the necessary period of planning. The intention was not to build Europe’s largest airport, but to build transit passengers’ favourite airport. A stay at the airport was supposed to be an integral part of the travel experience. Efficiency and precision were obvious demands, but focus was also on generating an oasis where international travellers could relax: beautiful architecture, Scandinavian design, and pleasant, light and comfortable surroundings with plenty of shops, restaurants and other facilities providing enjoyment and pleasure. The new cargo terminal was built in the eastern area of the airport.

A number of important construction projects were completed in 1998: a pier connecting the domestic and international terminals; a new arrivals hall; new modern baggage handling facilities; an underground railway station with two large underground parking facilities with 2400 spaces opens; and above it all the spacious and impressive delta-shaped terminal (Terminal 3) with 17 million passengers capacity. The first stage of the new Pier D was completed in the spring of 1999.[8]

On 1 July 2000 the Øresund Bridge opened which connects Denmark and Sweden by motorway and train. In 2001 the five-star Hilton hotel opened with 382 rooms. In 2006 for the first time in its history Copenhagen airport exceeded 20 million passengers and reached 20,900,000 passengers. In October 2007 the metro station opened, connecting the airport to the Copenhagen Metro. A new control tower opened in 2008 by Naviair as part of a major renovation of the ATC system. Airport officials announced plans to build a new low-cost terminal at the facility. On 31 October 2010 the new low cost terminal CPH Go opened by easyJet.[9] In 2013 the airport handled a new record of 24,067,030 passengers. In 2014 CPH announced plans to increase capacity to 40 million passengers per year.[10] In 2015 Emirates began servicing the Dubai route with the Airbus A380 with 615 seats.[11]

Facilities

Terminals

Check-in desks at Terminal 2

Copenhagen Airport has two terminals, Terminals 2 and 3, which handle all flights and share a common airside passenger concourse as well as the arrivals section which houses customs and baggage claim and is physically located in Terminal 3. The newest section, CPH Go, dedicated to low-cost carriers opened in October 2010. So far, EasyJet, Transavia and Ryanair are the only airlines operating from this facility, which is accessed from terminal 3. An all new Terminal 4 has been discussed, but replaced by plans to expand the current facilities in appropriate increments.[12] Copenhagen Airport says passengers have easy transfer possibilities.[13]

Previously all domestic flights departed from Terminal 1, but from 29 March 2015 all departures have been collected in Terminals 2 and 3,[14][15] and Pier C was expanded with another jetbridge at DKK 10M to facilitate the Emirates Airbus A380 to Dubai from December 2015,[16][17] which was the first 2-class A380 carrying 615 passengers.[11][18]

Runways

Despite the short distance to the city centre, approaches to, and departures from, the airport are above water due to the heading of the dual parallel runway system (04R/22L & 04L/22R). Those runways point to the Øresund strait, close in both directions. The supplementary runway (30/12) oriented perpendicular to the main runways also has its approach or depateure over Øresund in one direction. In the opposite direction, the 30/12 runway has noise restrictions as flight happens close over residential areas.[19] Other advantages are the low altitude of the airport and absence of hills and high buildings below the approach directions. In case of fog, the runway 22L is equipped with an ILS of category III C system, which allows modern aircraft to land in zero sight. Runway 04R/22L was widened by 4 meters in each side at DKK 30M to accommodate the Airbus A380, as part of a general concrete renewal program of DKK 300M.[11][16][17]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinationsTerminal
Adria Airways Ljubljana 3
Adria Airways
operated by Carpatair 		Örebro[20] 3
Aegean Airlines Athens
Seasonal: Heraklion, Kalamata (begins 16 May 2016),[21] Rhodes (begins 28 April 2016)[22] 		2
Aer Lingus Dublin (ends 25 March 2016)[23] 2
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo 2
airBaltic Riga 3
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf 2
Air Cairo Seasonal charter: Sharm el-Sheikh 3
Air Canada Toronto-Pearson 3
Air Europa Seasonal: Madrid 2
Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle 2
Air Greenland Kangerlussuaq 2
Air Greenland
operated by Jet Time 		Seasonal: Narsarsuaq 2
Air Serbia Belgrade 3
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino 2
Alsie Express Sønderborg 3
Atlantic Airways Vágar 2
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Seasonal: Innsbruck 		2
BH Air Seasonal: Burgas 2
British Airways London-Heathrow 2
Brussels Airlines Brussels 2
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Varna[24] 2
Croatia Airlines Zagreb (ends 20 May 2016)[25] 2
Croatia Airlines
operated by Trade Air 		Zagreb (begins 21 May 2016)[25] 2
Czech Airlines Prague 2
Danish Air Transport Bornholm, Karup
Seasonal: Sharm el-Sheikh 		3
Delta Air Lines Seasonal: New York-JFK 2
easyJet Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Edinburgh, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lyon (begins 17 April 2016),[26] Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Venice-Marco Polo (begins 24 March 2016)[27] CPH Go1
easyJet Switzerland Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva CPH Go1
EgyptAir Cairo 3
Emirates Dubai-International 2
Finnair Helsinki 2
Hainan Airlines
operated by Beijing Capital Airlines 		Charter: Beijing-Capital,[28] Hangzhou[28] 2, 3
Iberia Express Madrid 2
Icelandair Reykjavík-Keflavík 3
Iraqi Airways
operated by AirExplore 		Baghdad 3
Jet2.com Seasonal: Leeds/Bradford 2
Jet Time Charter: Antalya, Aqaba, Arrecife, Bodrum, Bourgas, Chambéry, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Fuerteventura, Gazipasa, Grenoble, Heraklion, Hurghada, Innsbruck, Izmir, Kangerlussuaq, Kefalonia, Kos, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Malta, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Ponta Delgada, Rhodes, Salzburg, Samos, Sharm el-Sheikh, Skiathos, Tenerife-South 2
KLM Amsterdam 2
KLM
operated by KLM Cityhopper 		Amsterdam 2
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin 3
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich 3
Luxair Luxembourg 2
Mahan Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini (begins 9 June 2016) [29] TBD
Middle East Airlines Seasonal: Beirut 2
Montenegro Airlines Seasonal: Podgorica 2
Norwegian Air Shuttle Aalborg, Alicante, Amsterdam, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Bergen, Berlin-Schönefeld, Boston (begins 12 May 2016), Budapest, Dubai-International, Dublin, Edinburgh, Faro, Fort Lauderdale, Funchal, Helsinki, Kraków, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Vegas,[30] London-Gatwick, Los Angeles, Madrid, Málaga, Marrakech, Milan-Malpensa, New York-JFK, Nice, Orlando, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Orly, Prague, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, San Juan, Stockholm-Arlanda, St. Croix, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Trondheim
Seasonal: Agadir, Athens, Belgrade, Burgas, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Larnaca, Lisbon, Malta, Marseille, Montpellier, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Rhodes, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Split, Stavanger (begins 20 May 2016),[31] Tenerife-South, Venice, Zagreb 		2
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Lahore 2
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen
Seasonal: Antalya 		2
Primera Air Seasonal: Arrecife, Dalaman, Enfidha, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Ponta Delgada, Rhodes, Santorini, Tenerife-South, Varna 2
Qatar Airways Doha 2
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca 2
Ryanair Alicante, Bergamo, Bologna, Budapest, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, Edinburgh,[32] Kaunas, London-Luton, Madrid, Málaga, Porto (begins 28 March 2016),[33] Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tenerife-South CPH Go1
Scandinavian Airlines3 Aalborg, Aarhus, Aberdeen, Ålesund, Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Billund, Birmingham, Bologna, Boston (begins 29 March 2016),[34] Bremen, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Chicago-O'Hare, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Gdańsk, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Krakow (begins 25 March 2016),[35] Linköping, London-Heathrow, Málaga, Manchester, Miami (begins 28 September 2016),[33] Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo (ends 24 March 2016),[36] Munich, Newark, Newcastle, Nice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Palanga, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznań, Prague, Pristina, Reykjavík-Keflavík (begins 27 March 2016),[35] Rome-Fiumicino, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Shanghai-Pudong, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tallinn, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (ends 25 March 2016),[37] Tokyo-Narita, Trondheim, Venice, Vienna (resumes 24 March 2016),[35] Vilnius, Warsaw-Chopin, Washington-Dulles, Wrocław, Zürich
Seasonal: Bastia, Biarritz, Cagliari, Chania, Dubrovnik, Faro (begins 2 April 2016),[38] Gazipaşa, Innsbruck, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Montpellier, Naples, Palermo, Pisa, Pristina, Pula, Salzburg, Split, Thessaloniki, Turin 		3
Singapore Airlines Singapore 2
SunExpress Seasonal: Antalya, İzmir, Konya 3
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich
Seasonal: Geneva (ends 17 April 2016)[39]		 2
TAP Portugal Lisbon 2
Thai Airways Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Seasonal: Phuket2 		3
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Charter: Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Ibiza, Funchal, Chania, Kos, Preveza, Crete, Heraklion, Mytilini, Rhodos, Skiathos, Larnaca, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Palma de Mallorca, Punta Cana, Phuket, Cancun, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Varadero 2 [40]
Transavia Eindhoven, Munich (begins 25 March 2016)[41] CPH Go1
TUIfly Nordic Charter: Antalya, Arrecife, Burgas, Izmir, Krabi, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Phuket 2
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökcen (begins 30 May 2016)[42]
Seasonal: Ankara, Konya		 2
Ural Airlines Yekaterinburg (Begins 31 May 2016)
Vueling Alicante, Barcelona, Málaga, Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 5 May 2016)[43]
Seasonal: Florence, Rome-Fiumicino (begins 1 June 2016)[44] 		2
Widerøe Haugesund, Kristiansand, Sandefjord 3
Wizz Air Skopje (begins 22 March 2016)[45] CPH Go
WOW air Reykjavík-Keflavík 2

Notes

^1 Check-in via Terminal 2.
^2 Two weekly flights from Copenhagen to Bangkok via Phuket. No direct flight in the other way – from Phuket to Copenhagen.[46]
^3 Some flights operated by Air Nostrum, Cimber, Jet Time or PrivatAir.

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
China Cargo Airlines Shanghai-Pudong
DHL Aviation East Midlands, Leipzig/Halle, Madrid, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Emirates SkyCargo Chicago-O'Hare, Columbus-Rickenbacker,[47] Dubai-Al Maktoum,[48] Houston-Intercontinental, Los Angeles, Mexico City
FedEx Express Helsinki, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Korean Air Cargo Seoul–Incheon
Singapore Airlines Cargo Amsterdam, Brussels, Singapore
West Air Sweden Helsinki

Statistics

Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 737-300 taxiing at Copenhagen Airport
TUIfly Nordic Boeing 737-800 taxiing at Copenhagen Airport
Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A330-300 taxiing for takeoff from Copenhagen Airport
Busiest routes by passenger traffic (2014)[49]
Destination
 Airport(s)
 Passengers
London Gatwick Airport, Heathrow Airport, Stansted Airport 1,732,857
Stockholm Arlanda Airport 1,449,963
Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Sandefjord Airport 1,411,399
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport 888,798
Aalborg Aalborg Airport 874,221
Helsinki Helsinki Airport 780,976
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly Airport 774,252
Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport 653,386
Brussels Brussels National Airport 466,709
Milano Linate Airport, Malpensa Airport 433,630
Berlin Tegel Airport, Schönefeld Airport 428,062
Zürich Zürich Airport 426,089
Rome Fiumicino Airport 423,176
Bergen Bergen Airport 419,284
Reykjavik-Keflavik Reykjavik-Keflavik Airport 411,893
Munich Munich Airport 406,832
Vienna Schwechat Airport 382,220
Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Airport 380,861
Barcelona El Prat Airport 367,925
New York City John F. Kennedy Airport, Newark Airport 349,756
Gothenburg Landvetter Airport 335,135
Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Sabiha Gökçen Airport 328,169
Málaga Costa del Sol Airport 315,082
Manchester Manchester Airport 297,209
Stavanger Stavanger Airport 281,032
Geneva Geneva Airport 276,133
Nice Côte d'Azur Airport 274,524
Dublin Dublin Airport 270,333
Dubai Dubai Airport 257,019
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport 254,222

Annual passenger numbers

Passenger numbers at Copenhagen Airport[50]
Year
Passengers
handled[nb 1]
Passenger
% Change
Aircraft
movements
Aircraft
% Change
2001 18,082,158 Steady 288,738 Steady
2002 18,253,446 Increase0.9 266,896 Decrease 7.6
2003 17,707,742 Decrease3.0 259,002 Decrease 3.0
2004 19,034,557 Increase7.5 272,512 Increase 5.2
2005 19,980,301 Increase5.0 268,652 Decrease 1.4
2006 20,877,533 Increase4.5 258,354 Decrease 3.8
2007 21,409,886 Increase2.5 257,587 Decrease 0.3
2008 21,529,857 Increase0.6 264,086 Increase 2.5
2009 19,715,317 Decrease8.4 236,170 Decrease 10.6
2010 21,501,473 Increase9.1 245,635 Increase 4.0
2011 22,725,284 Increase5.7 253,759 Increase 3.3
2012 23,334,939 Increase2.7 242,990 Decrease 4.2
2013 24,066,917 Increase3.1 244,933 Increase 0.8
2014 25,627,093 Increase6.5 251,799 Increase 2.8
2015 26,608,869 Increase3.8 254,832 Increase 1.2

Runway statistics

Take offs - runway number

  • 22 L - 4.8%
  • 22 R - 65.0%
  • 04 L - none
  • 04 R - 30.0%
  • 30 - 0.2%
  • 12 - none

Landings - runway number

  • 22 L - 65.8% (runway has ILS CAT III C system)
  • 22 R - 1.6%
  • 04 L - 30.3%
  • 04 R - 0.1%
  • 30 - 2.0%
  • 12 - 0.2%

[51]

Other facilities

SAS traffic office resides at the airport, and so do Cimber Sterling's. Thomas Cook Airlines has both its head- and traffic office here as well as a flight simulator centre. All these reside at Copenhagen Airport South and in Dragør, Dragør Municipality together with a VIP-terminal. The VIP-terminal building is actually the very first terminal building, from the 1920s. It was moved about 2 km during the 1990s.

In 2015, Boeing opened a Maintenance, repair, and operations facility at CPH, as proximity to daily operations is more important than high wages when checks have to be made every 1,000 flight hours.[52]

Ground transport

Within the airport area, special airport buses depart every 15 minutes. The bus line connects all terminals and parking lot areas and uses in all 11 bus stops. The transport is free of charge for all. During a few night hours, the buses depart every 20 minutes instead.[53]

Train

Train towards Copenhagen Central Station at the Copenhagen Airport train station.

The airport's station is located underneath Terminal 3 on the Øresund Railway Line.

  • The station is served by trains operated by DSB Øresund as part of the Øresundståg service. These trains, running as local services between Copenhagen city centre and Helsingør, have a dense stopping pattern inside Denmark. Øresundståg also operates regional and intercity trains to destinations across the south of Sweden: Malmö, Gothenburg, Kalmar, Karlskrona, and Kristianstad.
  • DSB, the Danish national rail operator, have InterCity and InterCityExpress trains calling at this station. Domestic destinations include Esbjerg, Aarhus, Aalborg and Sønderborg. DSB additionally runs trains to border cities of Germany and Sweden, such as Flensburg (Germany) and Ystad (Sweden), where a ferry connects the station to the Danish island of Bornholm.
  • Swedish SJ runs several high-speed trains with daily departures between Copenhagen central station (København H) and Stockholm central station (Stockholm C) and Gothenburg (Göteborg). These train all call at the Copenhagen Airport station (København Lufthavn/Kastrup).

Metro

Line M2 of the Copenhagen Metro links the airport with the city centre in around 15 minutes. The Metro station is two floors above the underground rail station and continues on elevated tracks until it goes underground after 5 stations. The metro lacks public time tables as they run very frequent; in rush hours every four minutes, outside rush hours and on weekends every six minutes, and every 15/20 minutes during night time.

Road

  • Movia buses 5A, 35, 36 and Gråhundbus line 999 all stop at the airport; bus 888, express-bus to Jutland, also stops at the airport. Movia bus 2A stops near the airport. There are long-distance buses to Sweden and Norway operated by Swebus: 820 to Oslo via Gothenburg and 832 to Uppsala via Stockholm. GoByBus and Bus4You also operate the same routes.
  • The E20 motorway runs right by the airport. The E20 uses the toll road Øresund Bridge to Sweden. The airport has 8,600 parking spaces. Customers can pre-book their parking space online by visiting the Copenhagen Airport website [2].

Incidents and accidents

A Douglas Dakota, similar to the KLM aircraft that crashed in 1947.
  • 26 January 1947 (1947-01-26): Douglas Dakota (DC-3), PH-TCR of KLM crashed after takeoff from Copenhagen, killing all 22 onboard, including Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (father of present king Carl XVI Gustaf) and American singer and actress Grace Moore. 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 metres (150 feet), stalled, and plummeted nose-first to the ground where it exploded on impact. The investigation showed that the crash had been caused by a forgotten elevator gust lock. Short of time, the captain never performed his checklist and took off not realising the lock was still in place. See 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 Copenhagen accident.
  • 17 November 1957 (1957-11-17): Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashed at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause was a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.[54]
  • 28 August 1971 (1971-08-28): a Malév Ilyushin Il-18, HA-MOC crashed into the sea while executing an instrument approach. The main cause of the accident was microburst, a particularly dangerous and unpredictable meteorological phenomenon. 23 passengers and the crew of 9 died. 2 passengers survived. The captain of the plane was World War II flying ace of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, Dezső Szentgyörgyi. He was due to retire in less than 3 weeks.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Number of passengers including domestic, international and transit

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