Copenhagen Kastrup Airport

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Københavns Lufthavn
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Copenhagen airport and the town of Dragør.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code EKCH
IATA code CPH
Coordinates

55 ° 37 '5 "  N , 12 ° 39' 21"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 37 '5 "  N , 12 ° 39' 21"  E
Height above MSL 5 m (16  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 8 km south of Copenhagen
Street E 20 (exit 17)
train Københavns Lufthavn station, Kastrup
Local transport Lufthavnen station
Basic data
opening April 20, 1925
operator Copenhagen Airports A / S
surface 1100 ha
Terminals 2
Passengers 30,256,703 (2019)
Air freight 291,287 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		263,411 (2019)
Employees 23,000 (2016)
Runways
04R / 22L 3300 m × 45 m asphalt
04L / 22R 3600 m × 45 m asphalt
12/30 3070 m × 45 m concrete

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The Copenhagen Kastrup Airport [ ˈkasdʀob ] ( IATA : CPH , ICAO : EKCH ; Danish Københavns Lufthavn ) in the Tårnbyer district Kastrup is the international airport of the Danish capital Copenhagen . With over 30 million passengers per year, it is the largest airport in Scandinavia and serves as a hub for SAS Scandinavian Airlines as well as the base for Norwegian Air Shuttle and other companies.

history

Copenhagen Airport was opened on April 20, 1925 as one of the first private airports in the world with a grass runway as a runway. A total of 6,000 take-offs and landings took place here in 1932. In 1939 the new terminal designed by Vilhelm Lauritzen was completed and opened.

During the Second World War took advantage after the occupation of Denmark by the German Wehrmacht , the German Air Force airfield in spring 1940 as the airbase . Kastrup was the main base of the Blindflugschule 4 from April 1941 and from September 1944 the Ju 88Gs of the I. Group of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 7 (I./NJG 7) or, after renaming a part of the IV. Group of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 2 (IV./ NJG 2). In February 1945 the flight operations essentially ended, but in the last months of the war the airport was the destination of evacuation flights from East Prussia and the Baltic States .

After Germany surrendered in May 1945, the British Royal Air Force took over Airfield B.160 , the Allied code name Kastrups. She stationed her 122nd squadron here from June to September, which was equipped with up to five squadrons of Tempest V and Typhoon IB fighter-bombers .

In 1948 the airport already had 150 take-offs and landings as well as 3,000 passengers a day, in 1956 it handled one million passengers for the first time and the airport was named the best in the world.

The new Terminal 2 was inaugurated on May 10, 1960, and the new tower was completed in the same year.

In 1982 the new cargo area was opened, followed in 1986 by a parking garage for 2,400 vehicles.

In 2000 more than 20 million passengers were handled, in the same year the first fixed car and train connection to Sweden was completed near the airport with the Öresund connection . In 2001, Hilton opened a luxury hotel with 382 beds on the airport premises and a total of 267,000 take-offs and landings were counted.

In September 2007 the airport was connected to the M2 line of the Copenhagen Metro .

Infrastructure

Exterior view of Terminal 3
The airport train station .

The 11 km² area of ​​the airport is divided into five areas:

  • Apron: There are two parallel runways (04L-22R [CAT1 - 3300 m]; 04R-22L [CAT2 - 3500 m]). These were laid parallel to the ships' fairway. This ensured that the noise pollution in the center of Copenhagen and in its suburbs decreased. In addition, there is a runway that crosses the other two (12-30 [CAT3]). Mainly it is used as a 'taxiway' for planes landing at sea. Landing or take-off traffic (landward) on the third runway may not take place in bad weather. The potential danger for the neighboring population would be too high due to the population density. Night flights are also not allowed over this runway. The apron has a total of 54 parking positions, nine of which are for domestic flights and 43 for international connections with passenger boarding bridges , as well as two helicopter landing pads .
  • North: This is where public shops are located that can be reached by everyone inside the airport. The arrival and departure halls, administration and the tower are located in the north area.
  • South: For logistics, all supply and transshipment depots are located in the southern part.
  • East: Freight and catering services as well as the aircraft hangars are located in the eastern part. All helicopters are dispatched here at the same time.
  • West: Here, in the part of the old airport, the air traffic controllers for Northern Europe are housed. The old tower was converted for training purposes and is now only switched to productive use in extreme cases.

Terminal building

Copenhagen Airport currently has two terminals , which include around 50 shops, 15 restaurants and bars as well as several airport lounges and conference areas.

Terminal 1

Domestic flights were handled in this terminal until 2015. From here the island of Bornholm and Jutland were approached. Greenland and the Faroe Islands , both of which are autonomous parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, were not approached from this terminal, but rather from Terminal 2/3. Since Terminal 1 was closed in 2015, both domestic and international flights have been handled from Terminals 2 and 3.

One of the earlier entrances to Terminal 1, which was closed in 2015

Terminal 2 and 3

National and international air traffic is handled here. Copenhagen is the largest transshipment and hub in Northern Europe.

Location and transport links

The airport is located in the Kastrup district of the Copenhagen suburb of Tårnby in the municipality of the same name and is about eight kilometers from the city center of Copenhagen on the east coast of the island of Amager , immediately south of the motorway and the railway line that lead to the Öresund connection . Precisely because of the airport, the western part of the Öresund connection is designed as a tunnel that begins directly at the airport. For safety reasons, air traffic control closes a runway when ships are announced in Drogden Sound with a height of over 30 meters, as the approach path of the aircraft is very low over the water of the sound.

The airport has a direct connection to the Öresund connection with the Københavns Lufthavn train station . Thanks to the train connection to Sweden , the airport is not only a major hub for Scandinavian air traffic, but is also an important point for Danish-Swedish traffic connections. The airport is also connected to the metro system of the Danish capital with the Lufthavnen station.

The airport can be reached by train in five hours from Stockholm , 3.5 hours from Gothenburg and Aarhus to Terminal 3. From Malmö it only takes 20 minutes and twelve minutes from the center of Copenhagen. The distance from the train station to the check-in counters is only around 100 meters.

Airlines and Destinations

Over 180 national and international destinations are served from Copenhagen. These include destinations in Europe as well as North America , Africa and Asia .

In German-speaking countries, there are flights to Basel , Berlin-Tegel , Berlin-Schönefeld , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Geneva , Hamburg , Hanover , Cologne / Bonn , Munich , Münster-Osnabrück , Salzburg , Stuttgart , Vienna and Zurich .

Traffic figures

Sources: Copenhagen Airports A / S
Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport - traffic figures 1997–2019
year Passenger numbers Air freight ( tons ) Flight movements
National International total
2019 1,487,932 28,768,771 30.256.703 291.287 263.411
2018 1,586,728 28.711.803 30.298.531 266.096
2017 1,611,369 27,566,464 29,177,833 259.243
2016 2,028,514 27,014,773 29,043,287 423.042 265,784
2015 1,915,528 24,694,804 26,610,332 372.748 254,838
2014 1,946,790 23.680.303 25,627,093 390.210 251,799
2013 1,902,652 22.164.378 24,067,030 360,990 244,942
2012 1,935,133 21,401,054 23,336,187 354.270 242.992
2011 2,401,265 20,324,252 22,725,517 332,877 253,762
2010 2,450,580 19.051.170 21,501,750 309.236 245,640
2009 2,014,933 17,700,518 19,715,451 312.179 236.172
2008 - - 21,530,016 - 264.101
2007 - - 21,409,526 - 257,591
2006 - - 20,877,496 - 258.356
2005 - - 19,981,872 - 268,655
2004 - - 19,034,585 - 272,518
2003 - - 17,714,007 - 259.002
2002 - - 18.272.173 - 266,894
2001 - - 18.136.274 - 288,739
2000 - - 18,119,752 - 303.713
1999 - - 17,050,629 - 298,533
1998 - - 16,368,038 - 280,788
1997 - - 16.623.404 - 283,621

Incidents

  • On September 3, 1946, a Douglas DC-3A of Air France (F-BAOB) crashed about 40 km southwest of it at Køge after taking off from Copenhagen Airport . All 22 occupants, 5 crew members and 17 passengers were killed. The cause is assumed to be a fuel leak that led to an engine fire.
  • On February 8, 1949 a Vickers Viking 1B of Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) (OY-DLU) crashed into the Oresund while approaching Copenhagen Airport near Barsebäck, Sweden . All 27 people on board were killed.
  • On August 15, 1957, an Ilyushin Il-14 of Aeroflot ( СССР-L1874 ) collided on final approach with a chimney of the HC Ørsted Værket power plant and crashed into the southern harbor basin of Copenhagen. The plane came from Riga- Spilve Airport. All 23 inmates were killed.
  • On November 17, 1957, one was Viscount 802 of the British European Airways (BEA) (G-AOHP) on a cargo flight from London Heathrow to Copenhagen . During the approach, three of the four engines failed due to a malfunction in the de-icing system. The aircraft was destroyed in a belly landing 28 kilometers northwest of the airport, but both pilots survived.
  • On April 13, 1963, a Douglas DC-6B of Sterling Airways (OY-EAP) had an accident while landing at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport. The plane was on a transfer flight from Las Palmas with only three engines running. Just before the runway, altitude and speed had dropped too far. When attempting a go-around with three engines, the airplane tilted sharply to the right and hit the wing tip 50 meters from the runway, whereupon the wing broke. The three-person flight crew survived and the machine was destroyed.
  • On August 28, 1971, an Ilyushin Il-18 of the Hungarian airline Malév ( HA-MOC ) crashed into the sea on the final approach under instrument flight rules near the island of Saltholm . The pilot was the well-known Hungarian World War II pilot Dezső Szentgyörgyi , who lost control of the aircraft on the approach. Of the 34 occupants, only 2 survived the accident.
  • On February 3, 1975, after a Boeing 747 of Japan Air Lines landed at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport, 197 people had to be treated for severe food poisoning with symptoms such as vomiting, stomach cramps and severe diarrhea, 144 of them in hospital. A chef from the airline's catering company had staphylococci contaminated ham omelets on his fingers . The way the food was stored until it was served encouraged the bacteria to multiply. Thanks to a fortunate circumstance, the pilots hadn't eaten any of the meal, since, in the opinion of the investigating medical officer, they would otherwise have been unable to land the machine safely. Following the announcement of the incidents of the catering manager committed by Japan Airlines suicide . The Federal Aviation Administration changed its regulations so that two pilots assigned to the same flight should eat meals prepared by two different cooks (see also food poisoning at Japan Air Lines )

Others

Flyvergrillen snack stand , meeting place for aircraft spotters (2007)

literature

Web links

Commons : Københavns Lufthavn  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CPH traffic data: Close to 30.3 million passengers in 2019. In: cph.de. Copenhagen Airports A / S, January 13, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Trafik-, Bygge and Boligstyrelsen. Stat.Trafikstyrelsen.dk, accessed June 7, 2020 (Danish).
  3. ↑ a b c Publications. CPH.dk, accessed on December 28, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Shipping traffic in the Baltic Sea - A ship is going down , Badische Zeitung, November 10, 2012, accessed on June 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Joe Baugher: USAF Serials, 42-107067 , accessed December 4, 2017.
  6. ^ Accident report B-17 OY-DFE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 4, 2017.
  7. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 43 (English), December 1991, pp. 91/107.
  8. ^ Accident report DC-3 F-BAOB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 45 (English), June 1992, p. 53.
  10. ^ Accident report DC-3 PH-TCR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 23, 2017.
  11. ^ Accident report Viking 1B OY-DLI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 1, 2017.
  12. ^ Accident report Viking 1B OY-DLU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 23, 2017.
  13. ↑ Accident report IL-14 СССР-L1874 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 30, 2017.
  14. ^ Accident report Viscount 802 G-AOHP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 10, 2018.
  15. ^ Accident report DC-6B OY-EAP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 24, 2018.
  16. ^ Accident report IL-18 HA-MOC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 30, 2017.