08.09.2006
Six million passengers this summer

Copenhagen Airport sets a record with an average of more than two million passengers a month in June, July and August this year. Driving the growth was travel-hungry Danes combined with increased availability of inexpensive tickets and low-cost routes out of Copenhagen.

A total of more than six million travellers passed through Copenhagen Airport this June, July and August, setting a new passenger record for the airport.

For the first time ever, the airport at Kastrup served more than two million passengers a month for both June and July; the number for August was just over 1.9 million. All in all, the airport saw 6,012,697 passengers during those three summer months, an monthly average of just over two million.

The growth is due to rising numbers of locally departing passengers, i.e. passengers checking in at Copenhagen. The number of locally departing passengers in those three summer months was 8.6 per cent higher than in the summer of 2005. By comparison, growth in the total number of passengers for the same period of time was 3.8 per cent (for locally departing, transfer, transit and arriving passengers).

"The huge increase in number of locally departing passengers reflects an increasing desire to travel among Danes and a greater availability of low-price tickets and low-cost routes departing from Copenhagen airport," said Flemming Petersen, vice president with Copenhagen Airports A/S.

Copenhagen Airport is the largest airport in Scandinavia, serving 20 million passengers last year. The total this year is expected to reach 21 million.