Aalborg Airport
| Aalborg Lufthavn Flyvestation Aalborg |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | EKYT |
| IATA code | EEL |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 3 m (10 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 6.5 km northwest of Aalborg |
| Street | Ny Lufthavnsvej 100, DK-9400 Nørresundby |
| train | Aalborg Lufthavn (until December 31, 2018 Lindholm Station) |
| Local transport | Aalborg city bus |
| Basic data | |
| opening | September 4, 1936 |
| operator | Aalborg Lufthavn amba |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 1,462,507 (2019) |
| Air freight | 0 t (2019) |
| Flight movements |
23,766 (2019) |
| Employees | 170 |
| Runways | |
| 08R / 26L | 2549 m × 23 m asphalt |
| 08L / 26R | 2654 m × 45 m asphalt / concrete |
The Aalborg Airport ( Danish Aalborg Lufthavn ; IATA Code : AAL , ICAO code : EKYT ) is the third largest airport in Denmark and is located 6.5 kilometers northwest of the center of Aalborg . Its passenger volume was 1.5 million passengers in 2016. In addition, the Royal Danish Air Force used the facility under the name Flyvestation Aalborg as a base for their Air Transport Wing , an air transport squadron. The headquarters of North Flying is located in the North Flying Terminal at the airport, and the headquarters of Great Dane Airlines , which was founded in 2018, is also located at the airport.
history
Aalborg Airport opened on September 4, 1936. With him, the North Jutland region was to receive an airlift to Copenhagen . It was Denmark's first domestic connection. A one-way ticket cost 25 Danish kroner back then. “I hundrede minutes from København til Aalborg.” - From Copenhagen to Aalborg in a hundred minutes . With these words the route was advertised back then. Today a flight only takes 35 minutes.
Shortly after the occupation of Denmark by the German Wehrmacht as part of Operation Weser Exercise in the spring of 1940, "Aalborg-West" was an important stopover for the Air Force for flights to the Norwegian theater of war and the Battle of Britain .
Aalborg West was during the war together with the adjacent airbase Grove developed into one of the fortified most airfields of the Luftwaffe in occupied Western Europe. Between November 1942 and the beginning of January 1944, a squadron of the IV. Group of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 3 (IV./NJG 3), which was initially equipped with Bf 110 and Do 217 , lay in Aalborg-West. The latter was replaced by the Ju 88C in the summer of 1943 .
The airport has been served by SAS since 1946 . From 2006 to autumn 2008 there were also connections by the low-cost airline Sterling.dk from Aalborg to Copenhagen and London-Gatwick . With the bankruptcy and acquisition by Cimber Air , the route to Paris was abandoned.
The military use of Aalborg continued after the end of the war. After the beginning of the Cold War , two combat squadrons, the 723rd and 724th Eskadrille, moved from Karup to Aalborg and received Meteor NF.11 night fighters . The latter was converted to the Hunter F.51 day hunter in 1956 and used this model until March 1974. The former received the F-86D in 1958 , which it operated until 1966. Another squadron, the 726th, whose F-86D had also been in Aalborg since 1958, received the supersonic F-104 in 1964 , while the 723rd saw the introduction of the "Starfighter" in September 1965. The Danes flew the versions F-104G, TF-104G and from 1971 also some CF-104D. The conversion to the F-16A / B , which is now only flown in Skrydstrup , began in 1983 with the 723rd and three years later with the 726th Eskadrille. In the course of two further waves of downsizing the Flyvevåbnet after the end of the Cold War, the Aalborg squadrons were disbanded in January 2001 and at the end of 2005 and the permanent fighter aircraft stationing ended in Aalborg. The military area of the airport has served as a transport aircraft base since 2004.
Location
Aalborg Airport is located west of Nørresundby and southeast of Aabybro , directly on primary route 55, which runs from Aalborg to Hirtshals . The closest motorway exit is exit number 22 from Europastraße 45 . The airport is also a base for the Royal Danish Air Force.
The airport is connected to the Aalborg city and regional bus network. A new railway line to the airport is expected to be completed in 2019 .
Military use
The Flyvestation Aalborg was after closing the base Værløse on 1 April 2004, the basis of the Danish transport aircraft, currently (as of 2016) which is Eskadrille 721 , each consisting of a swarm of C-130J-30 Hercules and Bombardier Challenger 604 (MPA) , on stationed at the airfield, also some Saab Safari , called T-17.
Civil use
From Aalborg machines start directly after:
| airline | aims |
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| Atlantic Airways | Seasonal: Vágar |
| Bulgaria Air | Seasonal charter: Burgas |
| Corendon Airlines | Seasonal Charter: Gazipaşa (starts May 14, 2020) |
| Danish Air Transport | Seasonal: Bornholm |
| Great Dane Airlines | Seasonal charter: Chania , Gran Canaria , Hurghada , Palma de Mallorca , Rhodes , Split (starts June 20, 2020), Tenerife-South , Varna |
| Jet time | Seasonal charter: Antalya , Chania , Gran Canaria , Larnaka , Palma de Mallorca , Rhodes |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle |
Copenhagen , Málaga Seasonal: Gran Canaria , Palma de Mallorca |
| Ryanair | London Stansted |
| SAS Scandinavian Airlines |
Copenhagen , Oslo-Gardermoen Seasonal: Sälen / Trysil Seasonal Charter: Chania |
| Sunclass Airlines | Seasonal charter: Gran Canaria , Palma de Mallorca , Tenerife-South |
| Sunexpress | Seasonal: Antalya |
| Vueling | Barcelona |
Traffic figures
| year | Passengers | Freight in t | Flight movements |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 720.410 | ||
| 2001 | 699.116 | ||
| 2002 | 663.226 | ||
| 2003 | 614.776 | ||
| 2004 | 643.970 | ||
| 2005 | 682.020 | ||
| 2006 | 788.338 | 1,163 | 21,703 |
| 2007 | 992.674 | ||
| 2008 | 1,045,478 | ||
| 2009 | 1,124,032 | ||
| 2010 | 1,343,184 | ||
| 2011 | 1,392,139 | ||
| 2012 | 1,327,945 | ||
| 2013 | 1,422,289 | 14,090 | 24,810 |
| 2014 | 1,409,867 | ||
| 2015 | 1,456,496 | ||
| 2016 | 1,520,987 | ||
| 2017 | 1,521,658 | ||
| 2018 | 1,609,965 | ||
| 2019 | 1,462,507 | 0 | 23,766 |
Incident in September 2007
On September 9, 2007, a De Havilland DHC-8-400 of the airline SAS, which had started from Copenhagen to Aalborg, had to make an emergency landing. The right landing gear, which could be extended but could not be loaded for reasons that were not yet clear, collapsed under the weight of the aircraft. As a result, the right engine of the machine hit runway 26R with full force and the propeller was completely destroyed. One of the propeller blades bored into the aircraft cabin and seriously injured a passenger, there were also eleven slightly injured. After further accidents with this type of aircraft, SAS decided on October 28, 2007 to decommission all aircraft of this type indefinitely, 22 of which the airline owned. After that, the Copenhagen-Aalborg route was served by other aircraft in the SAS fleet.
Web links
- Aalborg Lufthavn official website (Danish, English partly)
- Homepage of the military airfield (Danish)
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- TV2 News, Fly ulykke Aalborg on YouTube , Danish TV report on the emergency landing on September 9, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passenger numbers 2005-2020 (February). Historical key passenger figures for Aalborg Airport. In: aal.dk. Aalborg Lufthavn, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Trafik-, Bygge and Boligstyrelsen. Stat.Trafikstyrelsen.dk, accessed on June 8, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ Ny bane til Aalborg Lufthavn. bane.dk, May 9, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 (Danish).
- ↑ Amsterdam. (No longer available online.) Aalborg Lufthavn, archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; accessed on March 23, 2014 .
- ^ Aalborg Lufthavn, Passenger Valley 2000–2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 6, 2017 ; accessed on May 20, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Aalborg Lufthavn, Fact and figures 2013. (PDF; 2.18 MB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 5, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Aalborg |
Karup |
Skrydstrup
Former
Aalborg Aviation Base (1940–1945) |
Aarhus (1943–1998) |
Lundtofte (1917–1956) |
Vandel (1943–2003) |
Værløse (1934-2004)