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  IATA CPH
  ICAO EKCH
  Type public
  Run By Copenhagen Airports A/S
  Closest Town Copenhagen
  Elevation Ft 16
  Elevation M 5



  Runway Angle 04R-22L
  Runway Length F 10,833
  Runway Length M 3,302
  Runway Surface Paved


  Runway Angle 04L-22R
  Runway Length F 9,842
  Runway Length M 3,000
  Runway Surface Paved


  Runway Angle 12-30
  Runway Length F 9,186
  Runway Length M 2,800
  Runway Surface Paved



Copenhagen Airport ('''''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


History

  • 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.

  • ).

  • 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.



TERMINALS

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


All domestic arrivals and departures:


Terminal 2



Terminal 3


  • 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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