Strategic partnership brings Swedish and Danish catchment area even closer to CPH.

Copenhagen Airport has signed a strategic partnership agreement with DSB (the Danish rail service) which means a more coherent travel from train station to airport as well as major time savings for especially the business travelers from eastern Jutland, Funen and Sweden respectively.

“DSB currently has a 40% market share of traffic to and from Copenhagen Airport, and DSB would like to help our business customers by creating a more coherent travel experience, allowing passengers to turn travel time into working hours. The train service every 30 minutes between the centre of Aarhus and Copenhagen Airport is an obvious example of this”, says Søren Eriksen, CEO of DSB.

This opinion is shared by Carsten Nørland, VP, Sales and Marketing at CPH who also sees the partnership as a strengthening of Copenhagen Airport’s position in the competition with the airports at Hamburg and Stockholm. “Very many people in Jutland, northern Germany and southern Sweden will save a lot of time and have more non-stop flights available with the more frequent rail services to Copenhagen Airport, which is one of the key traffic hubs of northern Europe,” he added. DSB is of the same opinion and would also like to put focus on Sweden.

In the longer term, CPH and DSB intend to expand their partnership to include additional offers. The list of potential offers currently being discussed includes long-term parking by train stations, check-in and baggage drop at train stations, and extension of the DSB Travel Guarantee scheme to include cover of missed flights due to train delays.

“With this strengthened partnership, we wish to create value for our customers by offering them a coherent travel experience with focus on customers all the way from they arrive at the rail station until they board their flight,” said Nørland, emphasizing that some of these initiatives will be implemented at a later point in time.

In addition to more trains to and from the airport, CPH and DSB intend, in the short term, to make it even easier for passengers to check in for their flights at railway stations and to get information on train departure times at the airport.