Located just eight kilometres southeast of the Copenhagen city centre, Copenhagen Airport is in Kastrup, a town on the island of Amager.

The airport is Scandinavia´s main airport, i.e. the transfer airport for air traffic between other parts of the world and the many national and regional airports in Scandinavia and the area south of the Baltic Sea.

Copenhagen Airport functions as the hub for SAS and is thus one of the hubs in the Star Alliance. Star Alliance is a network of 15 international airlines that fly to a total of 772 airports in 133 countries. The airport is also the Scandinavian hub for DHL, the express air freight company.

The airport is owned and operated by Copenhagen Airports A/S, a company listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.

There are about 22,000 employees in the many different companies that together provide the services that have made Copenhagen Airport one of the highest ranking in the world.

In terms of passengers, the three largest airlines serving Copenhagen Airport are SAS, Maersk Air and Sterling European.

Direct connections are available from Copenhagen Airport to a total of 127 destinations worldwide, seven of which are in Denmark, 20 are in other Scandinavian countries, 78 are in other European countries and 22 are intercontinental airports.

Number of operations in 2004 (take-offs and landings): 272.518

Number of passengers in 2004: 19 million

Cargo volumes in 2003: 335,731 tonnes

Areas and runway systems
The three runways divide the airport area, which is approximately 11.8 square kilometres, into four geographical sections:

The North Area, which contains the three passenger terminals, a railway station, a car park, a police station and other administrative functions, the Gate Gourmet catering facilities, the SAS Cargo Center and SAS's technical area, the last-mentioned with four large hangars.

The East Area, which includes cargo terminals for DHL and SAS, the Veterinary and Customs Centre, forwarding agencies and the LSG Sky Chefs catering facilities.

The South Area, in which technical bases for Maersk Air, My Travel, Sterling, Danish Air Transport and North Star are located.

The West Area contains Naviair (air traffic mangement) and Copenhagen Airport’s technical maintenance facilities.

The runway system consists of a main system (direction 22/04) with two parallel runways for take-offs and landings (3500 and 3300 metres long) and a 2800-metre cross-runway (direction 12/30). The runway used most frequently for landings (22L) contains equipment that makes landing possible even under conditions of extremely poor visibility (CAT 3). Runway 04 has equipment to permit landings under Cat 2 conditions, the other runways are what is called Cat1.

The main runway system, with aircraft approaches and take-offs mainly taking place offshore, is used for about 95% of all flights.

The maximum capacity of the runway system is 83 operations (take-offs and landings) per hour.

Stand capacity
108 stands:
9 domestic
43 international with passenger loading bridges
54 remote
2 helicopter

IATA code - CPH

ICAO code - EKCH

Address
Copenhagen Airports A/S
P.O. Box 74, Lufthavnsboulevarden 6
DK-2770 Kastrup
Denmark

Tel: +45 3231 3231
Fax: +45 3231 3132

E-mail: cph at cph dk

E-mail: info-dept at cph dk

WWW: Copenhagen Kastrup Int Airport

Runway 04R/22L

10827 x 148 feet
3300 x 45 meters

Runway 04L/22R

11811 x 148 feet
3600 x 45 meters

Runway 12/30

10072 x 148 feet
3070 x 45 meters

Navaids

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