09.09.2005
Metro service directly to Copenhagen Airport

On Thursday, 8 September, the roof tree was put up on the Metro station at Copenhagen Airport. From the autumn of 2007, there will be metro service direct to the airport, when the third phase of the Copenhagen Metro is completed.

The two tracks to the station will be laid out across the island of Amager and end at the tip of the wing-shaped Terminal 3, on the top floor of the multi-storey carpark to the west of the Hilton Copenhagen Airport building.

Metro passengers will be able to walk from the station to Terminal 3 in just a few minutes, without having to brave the elements outdoors. The Ørestad Development Corporation projects about 10,000 passengers getting on or off the trains at the airport Metro station each day in 2007 and roughly 14,000 per day in 2010.

“The station is designed so that it meets passenger demand for transport right to the airport terminal. We have also found a solution with a design consistent with the remaining architecture at the airport. There is no doubt that the new Metro station will make Copenhagen Airport one of the airports in the world with the very best infrastructure. We have the Øresund bridge, the motorway, regional and intercity trains and, from 2007, also Metro services directly to the airport,” said Vice President Mogens Kornbo of Copenhagen Airports.

Phase II of the Copenhagen Metro will go from the Airport to Lergravsparken, and there will be five new stations on the 4.5-kilometre new section: Øresund, Amager Strand, Femøren, Kastrup and Lufthavnen. The trip from the Copenhagen city centre to the airport will take 14 minutes, running along the east coast of the island of Amager and is expected to have 25,000 passengers per day.

The construction has been underway since the spring of 2004. The Ørestad Development Corporation is in charge of the construction across Amager, whilst Copenhagen Airport is the builder and owner of the airport station, which was designed by Vilhelm Lauritzen A/S.