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Cologne Bonn Airport
Airport Directory » Germany » Cologne » Cologne Bonn AirportCologne/Bonn Airport (German: Flughafen Köln/Bonn, also named Konrad-Adenauer-Flughafen or Flughafen Köln-Wahn) (IATA: CGN, ICAO: EDDK) is an international airport turn up in the Wahner Heide nature reserve, 15 kilometre southeastward of Cologne town center and 16 kilometre nor'-east of Bonn. It is the 6th biggest airport in Germany and 1 of the commonwealth's few 24-hour airports. In terms of freight voyages it is 2nd. In 2007 the figure of riders increased to 10.47 million, from 9.9 million in 2006.
History
In 1913 the 1st aeroplane start from the Wahner Heide armed forces grooming area on an heavy weapon reconnaissance mission voyage. In 1939 an field was made for the German Luftwaffe.
After World War II the British armed forces took over and expanded the airport. A 1,866 m landing track was built in this time period and in 1951 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic.
During the 50s and 60s two more landing track and a new depot were build. On one November 1970 a Boeing 747 start for New York City for the 1st clip.
In 1986 Cologne/Bonn Airport was pick out by United Parcel Service (UPS) as the place for their European hub.
In the late 1990s the Airport set about an enlargement programme. Several new parking lot and a 2nd depot were made, and in 2004 a new long-distance train station, Bahnhof Köln/Bonn Flughafen, on the new InterCityExpress (ICE) Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed railway line was opened.
Among several other new air connexions in 2006 was a daily transatlantic voyage to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines who functioned the path with a Boeing 757-200. This path was stopped on September 4th, 2008 due to a decrease in rider figure .
Low-cost bearers
Coinciding with the start out of several low-cost air hose in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacity. This enabled the airport to do competitory offers to the air hose. Consequently, Germanwings and TUIfly set about functioning from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. They were get together by EasyJet in late 2003 and Wizz Air in June 2006.
As a effect, the figure of riders in 2003 come up by 43% compared to 2002.
The airport is actively hunting for air hose willing to constitute the 1st trans-atlantic low-cost voyages.
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