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Copenhagen Airport (Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup in Danish) is the major airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden, located 8 km south of Copenhagen 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. 20 million passengers passed through the facility in 2005, making it the busiest airport in the Nordic countries, and number 11 in Europe. In 2006 the airport is expected to handle 21.5 million passengers.
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 formerly 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 Forbes list of The World's Ten Best Airport Lounges and the ninth best airport of the world in Skytrax's passenger survey . The airport has collected a variety of awards at its homepage
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History
1925 April 20 opens. One of the first private airports in the world, it opens with a grass runway.
1932 6000 take-offs and landings in the year.
1941 First hard-surface runway is built.
1946 SAS is founded, an important event for Copenhagen Airport, as Copenhagen would be a main hub for the airline. Traffic increases rapidly in the first years SAS operates.
1946 Copenhagen Airport is Europe's third-largest.
1947 On 26 January, a KLM DC-3 crashes at the airport after stopping en route to Stockholm. 22 people die, including the Swedish prince Gustav Adolf, and the American opera singer Grace Moore.
1948 150 take-offs and landings per day / 3000 passengers per day.
1950 378,000 passengers/year.
1954 11,000 tonnes of freight per year.
1954 SAS begins the world's first trans-polar route, flying initially to Los Angeles. The route proves to be a publicity coup, and for some years Copenhagen becomes a popular transit point for Hollywood stars and producers flying to Europe.
1956 1 million passengers per year. Wins the award as the world's best airport.
1960s With the advent of jet airliners, debate begins about a major expansion of the airport. Jets need longer runways than had previously been used, and plans are drawn up to expand the airport either into existing communities in Kastrup or onto Saltholm, a small island. Local protests ensue and expansion is stalled for some time.
1960 On 30 April, Terminal 2, also designed by Lauritzen, opens. New control tower is finished.
1960 2 million passengers per year.
1970s The airport suffers from acute space shortages, especially with the advent of large jets such as 747s. After initially deciding to expand to Salthomen, the project is eventually blocked by Denmark's parliament.
1973 8 million passengers per year.
1986 Parking garage with 2400 spaces opens.
1991 Airport is partially privatised.
1998 17 million passengers per year.
1999 Baggage handling system is modernised and the Vilhelm Lauritzen terminal is moved 3.8 km down the runway to make room for new terminals, a hotel, and a train station.
2000 20-22 million passengers per year.
2000 A commuter train linking the airport to Copenhagen and Malmö opens.
2001 A five-star Hilton hotel with 382 beds opens at the airport.
2001 267,000 take-offs and landings.
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Accessibility
The airport can be accessed in various ways:
Motorway - the E20 runs right by the airport, and junctions 15, 16, and 17 are situated nearby. The airport has 8,600 parking spaces.
Bus - HUR buses 12, 30, 36, and express-bus 250S and Greyhound bus 999 all stop at the airport; bus 888, express-bus to Jutland, also stops at the airport. HUR bus 2A stops near the airport.
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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.
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Terminal 1
All domestic arrivals and departures:
Cimber Air (Aalborg, Billund, Karup, Bornholm, Sønderborg – see T2, T3 for international destinations)
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Terminal 2
Air France (Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Strasbourg)
Cimber Air (Bucharest-Otopeni, Basel, Palanga, Wroclaw – see T1 for domestic destinations)
easyJet (Berlin-Schönefeld, London-Stansted)
Sterling Airlines (Aalborg, Alicante, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin-Tempelhof, Billund, Budapest, Burgas starts March 25, 2007, Cairo, Chania, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Gran Canaria, Kraków, Lanzorate, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, Malaga, Montpellier, Nice, Oslo, Palme de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rome-Ciampino, Salzburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife-South, Venice)
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Terminal 3
Scandinavian Airlines System (Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Arvidsjaur (seasonal), Athens, Bangkok, Beijing, Bergen, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago-O'Hare, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Joenkoeping, Krakow, Kristiansand, London-City, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Munich, Newark, Nice, Nuremberg, Oslo, Palanga, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznan, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, St. Petersburg, Seattle/Tacoma, Shanghai-Pudong, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Tampere, Tokyo-Narita, Turku, Vesteraas, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Washington-Dulles, Zurich – see T1 for domestic destinations)
Spanair (Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca)
Widerøe (Sandefjord, Stavanger, Trondheim)
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Notes
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