Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport (Danish: [Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) or Copenhagen Airport (Danish: [Københavns Lufthavn] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help); (IATA: CPH, ICAO: EKCH)) is an international airport in Denmark that has 3 terminals. It is the largest airport in the Nordic countries.
| Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup | |||
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| IATA: CPH – ICAO: EKCH | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Københavns Lufthavne | ||
| Serves | Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden | ||
| Location | Kastrup, Tårnby, Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| Hub for | *Norwegian Air Shuttle | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 5 m / 17 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 55°37′05″N 012°39′22″E / 55.61806°N 12.65611°ECoordinates: 55°37′05″N 012°39′22″E / 55.61806°N 12.65611°E | ||
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| 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 (2018) | |||
| Passengers |  30,298,531[1] | ||
| Domestic |  1,586,728[1] | ||
| International | 28,711,803[1] | ||
| Aircraft movements | 266,096[1] | ||
| Source: AIP[2] | |||
Scandinavian Airlines and Norwegian Air Shuttle are the largest airlines in Copenhagen.
It is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Copenhagen city centre, and 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of Malmö city centre.
There are three runways: 3,600m, 3,300m and 2,800m, all are asphalt.
The most popular flight destinations from Copenhagen are London, Oslo and Stockholm.[3]
History
- 1925 - Opens for service.
- 1939 - The first Terminal ever was built.
- 1940 - The Runway was expanded
- 1946 - SAS got a building near it
- 1960 - Terminal 2 was built
- 1969 - Terminal 1 was upgraded
- 1982 - The Cargo terminal opens.
- 1998 - Terminal 3 was built
- 2006 - 20 million passengers for the first time.
- 2007 - A metro station opens, connecting the airport to the Copenhagen Metro.
- 2010 - The new low cost terminal CPH Go opens the 31st of October.
Passengers (2010) 21,501,750
- 2015 - The airport got a renovation
- 2025 - 100 years anniversary
Copenhagen Airport Media
Kastrup Airport in the 1960s
Check-in desks at Terminal 2
Flughafen Kopenhagen 2009
Map showing the terminals and runways
Copenhagen Airport in 2025
Train towards Copenhagen Central Station at the Copenhagen Airport railway station
A Douglas Dakota, similar to the KLM aircraft that crashed in 1947
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Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Copenhagen Airport Statistics". Archived from the original (PNG) on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ↑ "EKCH – København/Kastrup" (PDF). AIP Denmark. Copenhagen: Trafikstyrelsen/Danish Transport Authority. 28 June 2012. part AD 2 – EKCH. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ↑ Car rental Copenhagen Airport (CPH) Discovercarhire. 06.12.2018.