Two new low cost airlines in 2010

Copenhagen Airport looks forward to welcoming two new low-cost airlines at the airport in 2010. Germanwings launches its Copenhagen–Cologne service with six weekly frequencies on 28 March 2010. The airline will use Airbus A319 on the service with capacity for 150 passengers. In the same month Austrian-based NIKI launches six weekly frequencies on its new Copenhagen-Vienna service. The airline will use Airbus A320s seating 180 passengers and, with return flights on every day except Saturdays.

The launch of the Germanwings and NIKI services to Cologne and Vienna respectively is a continuation of the expansion by low-cost airlines at Copenhagen Airport, and low-cost airlines now account for approximately 16% of all traffic at the airport; the highest percentage ever.

Germanwings to Cologne

Germanwings is one of the leading low-cost airlines in northern Europe and flies to more than 70 destinations out of its five German bases, of which Cologne is the biggest. From Cologne, the airline offers onward connections to a large number of destinations – including Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Vienna, Salzburg, Zurich, Split, Zagreb and Istanbul - and at Copenhagen Airport baggage can be checked through to end destinations.

 “The new Germanwings service to Cologne not only gives us a new, important service to our big neighbour to the south of us for the benefit of business and leisure travellers. The airline’s decision to set up services out of Copenhagen Airport also underlines our status as the biggest airport in Scandinavia – also in terms of low-cost flights,” said Carsten Nørland, VP for Aviation at Copenhagen Airports.

NIKI to Vienna

“NIKI’s daily flights to Vienna will give passengers even more cheap-flight options out of Copenhagen. The success of low-cost airlines at Copenhagen Airport benefits both passengers and the region as a whole as it becomes more accessible to foreign tourists and business travellers,” said Carsten Nørland, VP, Sales, of Copenhagen Airports.

NIKI was voted Best Low Cost Airline 2009 by REISE & PREISE the German travel magazine. From NIKI's Vienna base the airline offers connections to Palma de Mallorca, Nice and Bucharest among others.

When the two new airlines begin operating on Copenhagen in the spring, all major northern European low cost airlines which use principal airports will be represented at Copenhagen Airport.