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('''''Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup''''' in Danish ) is the major Airport serving Copenhagen , Denmark , located 8 km south of the 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. 19 million passengers passed through the facility in 2004 . A train station, opened in 2000 , is located directly beneath the arrival hall. Also a Copenhagen Metro station is planned to be in operation by 2007 .
Malmö-Sturup Airport (MMX), east of Malmö , serves as a secondary airport for Copenhagen and Malmö.
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 's passenger survey http://www.airlinequality.com/2005/airport-05-ent.htm. The airport has collected a variety of awards at its homepage
- 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.
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- 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.
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.
All domestic arrivals and departures:
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Hamburg)
- Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Strasbourg)
- Air Greenland (Kangerlussuaq, Narsarsuaq)
- Air One (Rome-Fiumicino)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Atlantic Airways (Faroe Islands)
- Britannia
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
- Cimber Air (Bucharest, Basel, Wroclaw – ''see T1 for domestic destinations'')
- Continental Airlines (Newark) Starting May 23, 2006
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- DirectFly (Bydgoszcz)
- 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/Vienna, 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 Air Portugal (Lisbon, Stockholm)
- Transavia (Amsterdam)
- Tunisair (Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul, Kayseri, Konya)
- Air Baltic (Riga, Vilnius)
- 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, Antalya, Athens, Bangkok, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham (UK), Brussels, Budapest, Cairo, Chania, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Joenkoeping, Krakow, Kristiansand, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester (UK), Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Newark, Newcastle, Nice, Nuremburg, Oslo, Palanga, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznan, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg (RU), Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai, Singapore, Stavanger, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tokyo-Narita, Vesteraas, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Zagreb, Zurich – ''see T1 for domestic destinations'')
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Skyways Airlines (Karlstad, Lindkoeping)
- Spanair (Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Palma Mallorca)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
- Varig (London-Heathrow, São Paulo-Guarulhos)
- Widerøe (Sandefjord, Stavanger, Trondheim)
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