Airport Facts

Located just eight kilometres southeast of the Copenhagen city centre, Copenhagen Airport is in Kastrup, a town on the island of Amager.

The airport is Scandinavia's main airport, i.e. the transfer airport for air traffic between other parts of the world and the many national and regional airports in Scandinavia and the area south of the Baltic Sea.

Copenhagen Airport functions as the hub for SAS and is thus one of the hubs in the Star Alliance. Star Alliance is a network of 27 international airlines that fly to a total of 1.160 airports in 181 countries. The airport is also the Scandinavian hub for DHL, the express air freight company.

Copenhagen Airports A/S is the listed company which owns and operates the airports at Copenhagen and Roskilde. At the end of December 2008, Macquarie Airports Copenhagen ApS (“MAp Copenhagen”) held 53.7% of the share capital of Copenhagen Airports A/S, and the Danish State held 39.2% of the share capital. The remaining part of the shares is held by private and institutional investors in Denmark and abroad.

There are about 22,000 employees in the many different companies that together provide the services that have made Copenhagen Airport one of the highest ranking in the world.

In terms of passengers, the largest airline serving Copenhagen Airport is SAS.

Direct connections are available from Copenhagen Airport to a total of 140 destinations (2010) worldwide.

Number of operations in 2010 (take-offs and landings): 245,629

Number of passengers in 2010: 21,5 million

Cargo volumes in 2009: 312,179 tonnes

Areas and runway systems

The three runways divide the airport area, which is approximately 11.8 square kilometres, into four geographical sections:

The North Area, which contains the three passenger terminals, a railway station, a car park, a police station and other administrative functions, the Gate Gourmet catering facilities, the SAS Cargo Center and SAS's technical area, the last-mentioned with four large hangars.

The East Area, which includes cargo terminals for DHL and SAS, the Veterinary and Customs Centre, forwarding agencies and the LSG Sky Chefs catering facilities.

The South Area , in which technical bases for My Travel, Sterling, Danish Air Transport and North Star are located.

The West Area contains Naviair (air traffic mangement) and Copenhagen Airport’s technical maintenance facilities.

The runway system consists of a main system (direction 22/04) with two parallel runways for take-offs and landings (3500 and 3300 metres long) and a 2800-metre cross-runway (direction 12/30). The runway used most frequently for landings (22L) contains equipment that makes landing possible even under conditions of extremely poor visibility (CAT 3). Runway 04 has equipment to permit landings under Cat 2 conditions, the other runways are what is called Cat1.

The main runway system, with aircraft approaches and take-offs mainly taking place offshore, is used for about 95% of all flights.

The maximum capacity of the runway system is 83 operations (take-offs and landings) per hour.

Stand capacity

108 stands:
9 domestic
43 international with passenger loading bridges
54 remote
2 helicopter

IATA code

CPH

ICAO code

EKCH

Address

Copenhagen Airports A/S
P.O. Box 74, Lufthavnsboulevarden 6
DK-2770 Kastrup
Denmark

Tel: +45 3231 3231
Fax: +45 3231 3132

E-mail: cph@cph.dk