25.09.2005
Hosting Routes key for Copenhagen Airport

This year, Copenhagen Airport is hosting Routes for the first time. As Scandinavia’s principal hub, the airport attaches great importance to its role as host.

“In a purely geographic sense, Denmark is the smallest country in Scandinavia, and it comes as a surprise to many people outside Denmark that Copenhagen is actually the region’s biggest hub, with more than 19 million passengers a year, a well-developed network of routes and direct connections to more than 130 destinations served by about 70 different airlines. Even though many of the 1600 Routes delegates already know Copenhagen, our hosting the conference is a unique opportunity for us to spotlight the huge potential our airport and region offer,” says CEO Niels Boserup of Copenhagen Airports.

Copenhagen Airport is a locomotive for development in the Øresund region. With the airport’s unique location and the region’s excellent infrastructure, airlines have immediate access to two countries – Denmark and southern Sweden – and flight connections to all of Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Copenhagen Airport is the closest major international airport for just about all of Denmark and roughly 40 per cent of Sweden’s population.

“In recent years, we at Copenhagen Airport have been focusing more on route development. We are highly competitive and – unlike many other airports in northern Europe – still have unused capacity. I expect we will be seeing growth in the number of destinations from Copenhagen Airport in the next few years, and hosting Routes will help increase our options,” Boserup says.