Airport Guide

History of Copenhagen Airport

One of the first non-military air fields in the world, Copenhagen Airport welcomed its first flight back in 1925, with as many as 6,000 take-offs and landings on its grass runway being recorded by 1932.

This rapid growth saw the construction of a first terminal building and then hard-surface runway by 1939, though the airport really grew as an international travel destination with the establishment of Scandinavian Airline Services (SAS) in 1946.

The dawn of the jet age in the 1960s prompted significant expansion, with a second terminal built and a third only added in 1998.

Recent notable developments include the opening of a special Metro station at the airport, connecting the terminal building directly with the downtown transport system, while a new control tower was officially opened in 2008.

Over the years, Copenhagen Airport has won a host of top industry awards for its customer service, architecture and innovation, among other things.

Travelling to Copenhagen Airport

Getting from the airport to the historic centre of Copenhagen is both fast and easy, partly due to the fact that most Danes speak excellent English.

Opened in 2007, the Metro station offers speedy connections downtown, though most passengers still use the main railway line, on which they can not only travel into the city centre but also connect to the rest of Denmark, as well as pick up high-speed services across the bridge to Sweden and its capital Stockholm.

Buses are also available from outside the terminal buildings and offer a cheaper means of transferring to the centre and also connections to the Copenhagen suburbs.

For those passengers travelling onwards by private car, the E20 motorway – which also passes over the Oresund Bridge to Sweden – passes right by the airport, allowing for swift connections.

Airlines flying from Copenhagen

Currently the 17th-busieset airport in Europe, Copenhagen welcomes flights from all over the continent, alongside cheap domestic shuttle services.

By far the biggest presence at the airport is held by SAS, which uses it as its principal hub.

As well as internal flights, the Scandinavian carrier offers international flights to major destinations across the globe, including Bangkok, Beijing, Dublin, Manchester, Madrid, Paris, Newark for New York, Tokyo and Washington DC.

Low-cost travel from within Europe to Copenhagen is also offered by a host of budget airlines, not least Cimber Sterling, which flies to the Danish capital from, among other locations, Barcelona, Edinburgh and Rome.

Other low-cost airlines touching down at Copenhagen include Norwegian Air Shuttle, SkyEurope, TAP Portugal, Jet Air, bmi, easyJet and transavia.

These are joined by a large number of national carriers, including Swiss International, Turkish Airlines, Iran Air, Syrian Arab Airlines, KLM, Czech Airlines, British Airways and Lufthansa.

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