07.02.2006
100,000 more passengers on intercontinental flights last year

With a total increase in passenger numbers of more than 100,000 last year, growth in intercontinental traffic out of Copenhagen Airport continued. A total of 1,877,000 passengers travelled between Copenhagen and destinations outside Europe in 2005, representing a year-on-year growth rate of 6%.

More than a third of the intercontinental passengers – 643,000 – travelled to or from destinations in the USA, whilst Thailand was the second-largest country of destination with 372,000 passengers and China third-largest with 274,000. An aggregate 9.4% of the airport’s almost 20 million passengers last year travelled to or from intercontinental destinations.

New routes in 2006

Two new airlines will be opening intercontinental routes out of Copenhagen to the USA: Delta Air Lines will launch direct flights to Atlanta from 2 May, and Continental Airlines will follow suit later that month, with flights to New York from 24 May.

In the autumn, Copenhagen Airport will see the launch of yet another intercontinental route when Emirates begins direct flights to Dubai on 1 October with onward connections to a large number of destinations in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and the Middle East.

The new routes will bring the number of intercontinental routes out of Copenhagen to 21, to which should be added a number of intercontinental charter destinations. By comparison, Stockholm/Arlanda has 12 intercontinental routes, and Oslo/Gardermoen has four.