Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport

Founded in the year 1925 and originally named Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen Airport is the main airport of Scandinavia that serves Denmark Copenhagen, and Malmö Sweden. The airport is situated eight kilometers south of the center of Copenhagen city on Amager Island, and lies chiefly in Tarnby city, and a small part in the adjoining Dragor city. Copenhagen Airport was among the world's earliest civil airports; where its first phase was distinguished by a revolutionary spirit at a time when flying was only for the fortunate few.

Today, the airport is one of the two major hubs for Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), serving about fifty-thousand passengers every day. It is also one of the hubs for Star Alliance, a system of sixteen international airlines flying to a sum of seven-hundred-ninety-five airports in one-hundred-thirty-nine countries. And is also the hub for DHL in Scandinavia. In 2005, it became the busiest airport in Nordic countries, with 19.98 million travelers passing through its facility, and it is expected to hold 21.5 million travelers in 2006.

The Copenhagen Airport Kastrup as it is formally called, has twenty-two-thousand employees from the various companies that make it one of the world's top ranking airports; has room for one-hundred-eight planes; and has a highest capacity of eighty-three loadings per hour.

There are direct connections obtainable from the airport to one-hundred-thirty-two destinations all over the globe, eighty-four of which is European, twenty-two are Nordic, nineteen are Intercontinental, and seven are domestic. There are three runways that divide the area of the airport, which is about 11.8 square kilometers, to four geographical parts: the North area, East area, South area, and West area.

The three airport terminals serve several airlines including: terminal 1- Danish Air Transport, Cimber Air, SAS, and Flying.dk; terminal 2 – Air France, Air Berlin, Air Greenland, Adria Airways, Alitalia, Aeroflot, Atlantic Airways, Arkia Israel Airlines, Bulgaria Air, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Cimber Air, Czech Airlines, Easyjet, Delta Air, and more; terminal 3 – Air One, Air Baltic, BMI, Austrian Airlines, Blue 1, Estonian Air, Cimber Air, and many more.

Copenhagen Airport can also be accessed in many ways such as motorway, bus, rail, or metro station. The airport has won a lot of awards as one of the world's most excellent airports, including being listed in Forbes magazine as one of "The World's Ten Best Airport Lounges", as well as the world's ninth top-airports in the passenger survey of Skytrax.