Milestone reached in April: 2.7 million travellers through Copenhagen Airport
Some 2.7 million travellers passed through Copenhagen Airport in April, making it the busiest April in CPH’s 100-year history. Spain remains the favourite southern European destination and US routes continue to attract more passengers.
Many people take a spring break. 2.681 million passengers travelled via Copenhagen Airport in April – 10 per cent more than in the same month of 2024, when the busy Easter period fell in March.
“Easter is a peak travel period. About a million passengers passed through the airport during the Easter week, making this our busiest April on record. Many travellers from Denmark and southern Sweden headed south for a sunny getaway or to one of the many cities that can be reached by direct flights from Copenhagen, and many foreign tourists travelled to Copenhagen to visit the Danish capital and the rest of the country,” says Peter Krogsgaard, Chief Commercial Officer of Copenhagen Airports A/S.
Travellers from Denmark and Sweden represented 37 and 16 per cent, respectively, of passengers at Copenhagen Airport in the first months of the year. Of the remaining passengers, the majority were from the UK, the USA and Norway.
Spain remains the favourite southern destination
After the UK, Spain is the most popular country destination. Some 230,000 passengers travelled to and from Spain in April – Barcelona, Malaga and Mallorca being the top destinations.
With 160,000 passengers, London tops the list of the destinations most frequently visited from Copenhagen, however. New York is the favourite overseas destination, followed by Dubai and Doha.
US routes continue to attract more passengers
In April, some 105,000 passengers travelled between Copenhagen and one of the seven US destinations serviced by direct flights from Copenhagen Airport – a 3 per cent increase on the same month last year. New York, with the two airports JFK and Newark, is the favourite US destination, followed by Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.
“We continue to see more passengers on flights to and from the United States. The number of passengers topped that of last year’s Easter month of March. There is growing uncertainty as to whether more people will choose not to travel to the USA, however. If so, we may see the effects later in the year,” says Krogsgaard.
About 65 per cent of travellers between Copenhagen and the United States are transfer passengers landing at Copenhagen en route from Scandinavia and Europe to US destinations. Many Americans take advantage of the strong route network between many US cities and Copenhagen. In the first three months of the year, 52 per cent of all passengers on flights from Copenhagen to the USA were Americans.
Copenhagen Airport celebrates centenary
Sunday, 20 April marked 100 years since the first flight took off from a grass field on the island of Amager – today the site of Copenhagen Airport. The first route went to Berlin with two stops along the way. Today, we have up to eight daily flights to Berlin, just one of the more than 170 destinations on offer from Copenhagen.
“A lot has happened over the past 100 years. Copenhagen Airport has a vibrant past – and a vibrant future ahead as well. Our foundation is solid, with a sound financial position, exciting development plans and ambitious targets for the transition needed to reduce our climate footprint,” says Krogsgaard.
On 20 April, the centenary was celebrated in the terminals for the enjoyment of many of the 103,000 passengers at the airport, with musical entertainment and competitions and samples handed out at various locations around the airport.
