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Copenhagen Airport
Airport Directory » Denmark » Copenhagen » Copenhagen AirportCopenhagen Airport (Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup) (IATA: CPH, ICAO: EKCH) is the leading airport assisting Copenhagen, Denmark and the other towns within the Oresund Region. It is turn up on the island Amager, eight kilometres southward of Copenhagen town centre, and 24 km due west of Malmö town centre at the other side of the Oresund Bridge. The airport lies principally in the municipality of Tårnby, with a little part in neighbour Dragør. It is the largest airport in Scandinavia.
The airport is the independent hub out of 3 used by Scandinavian Airlines System and is also a hub for Cimber Sterling, Norwegian Air Shuttle and for transavia.com. Copenhagen Airport assists well-nigh 60,000 riders per solar day; 21.5 million riders passed through the installation in 2008, make it the busiest airport in the Nordic commonwealths, and figure 17 in Europe, with a maximal capacity of 83 burdens/60 minute and with appartment for 108 planes. It is owned by Københavns Lufthavne, which also functions Roskilde Airport. The airport has 1700 employees (excepting stores, eating house etc.).
Copenhagen Airport was originally named Kastrup Airport, since it is turn up in the small city of Kastrup, currently a division of the Tårnby municipality. The formal name of the airport is still Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, to separate it from Roskilde Airport, which officially is named Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde.
History
Copenhagen Airport MapSAS Airbus A330 turning over for takeoff, This picture was taken from the airport position hill near the landing track- 1925: CPH opens for service on April 20. One of the 1st private airports in the world, it opens with a grass landing track.
- 1932: 6000 take-offs and landings in the yr.
- 1936–1939: New depot, reckoned 1 of the finest representatives of Nordic functionalism, is made (Architect: Vilhelm Lauritzen).
- 1941: First hard-surface landing track is made.
- 1946: SAS is constituted, an eminent event for Copenhagen Airport, as Copenhagen was to be the independent hub for the air hose. Traffic increases quickly in the 1st yr SAS functions. Also, Copenhagen Airport gets Europe's third-largest.
- 1947: On 26 January, a KLM DC-3 crashes at the airport after halt en path to Stockholm. 22 mortals expire, including the Swedish prince Gustav Adolf, and the American opera vocaliser Grace Moore.
- 1948: 150 take-offs and landings per solar day, and 3000 riders are dealt per solar day.
- 1950: 378,000 riders are dealt.
- 1954: 11,000 metric ton of cargo dealt per yr. SAS sets about the world's 1st trans-polar path, winging ab initio to Los Angeles. The path turn up to be a promotion putsch, and for some yr Copenhagen gets a popular theodolite point for Hollywood stars and manufacturers winging to Europe.
- 1956: 1 million riders dealt per yr. CPH wins the award for the world's most good airport.
- 1960s: With the coming of jet plane airliners, argument get down approximately a major enlargement of the airport. Jets take longer landing track than had antecedently been used, and programs are straighten up to spread out the airport either into being communities in Kastrup or onto Saltholm, a little island. Local protests result and enlargement is dragged one's feet for some clip.
- 1960: On 30 April, Terminal 2, also planned by Lauritzen, opens. Also, a new control tower opens and the airport deals 2 million riders per yr.
- 1970s: The airport endures from acute infinite deficits, particularly with the coming of big jet plane such as 747s. After ab initio make up one's mind to spread out to Saltholm, the labor is finally block up by Denmark's parliament.
- 1973: 8 million riders dealt per yr.
- 1982: The Cargo depot opens.
- 1986: A parkland garage with 2400 infinites opens.
- 1991: The airport is partly privatized.
- 1998: Terminal three opens, and the airport deals 17 million riders per yr.
- 1999: Baggage care system is overhauled, and the Vilhelm Lauritzen depot is travel 3.8 kilometre down the landing track to do appartment for new depots, a hotel, and a railroad terminal.
- 2000: The airport deals 18.4 million riders per yr. A commuter railroad train connecting the airport to Copenhagen and Malmö opens.
- 2001: A five-star Hilton hotel with 382 beds opens at the airport. 267,000 take-offs and landings.
- 2005: Macquaire Airport purchases 52% of stocks
- 2006: Number of riders surpasses 20 million for the 1st clip (20.9 million).
- 2007: A subway station opens, linking the airport to the Copenhagen Metro.
- 2008: A new control tower is opened by Naviair as division of a major redevelopment of the ATC system. Airport functionaries denote programme to construct a new low-cost depot at the installation, which is anticipated to be finished by 2010.
Ground transport
The airport is able to be get at in various fashions:
- Rail - the airport's station is turn up under Terminal three on the Øresund Railway Line and is assisted by Øresundstogen, the independent fashion to get into the town center, and to Helsingør, to Malmö, and other Swedish towns. Danish intercity railroad train end at this station, going to locations in Denmark such as Esbjerg, Århus, Frederikshavn and Padborg, where connexions are available for railroad train to Germany. Also, SJ functions X2000 high-speed railroad train to Stockholm and to Gothenburg.
- Metro - Line M2 of the Copenhagen Metro connects the airport with the town center.
- Bus - Movia jitneys 5A, 35, 36, 75 E, 76 E and 96 N and Gråhundbus line 999 all halt at the airport; jitney 888, express-bus to Jutland, also halts at the airport. Movia jitney 2A halts near the airport. There are long-distance passenger vehicle to Sweden.
- Motorway - the E20 runs right by the airport. The E20 uses the Oresund Bridge to Sweden. The airport has 8,600 parking zone. Customers is able to pre-book their parking zone on-line by seeing the Copenhagen Airport internet site .
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