Bornholm's Airport

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Bornholm's Airport (IATA: RNN, ICAO: EKRN) is a Danish airport about 5 km from Rønne on Bornholm, Denmark.

In 1935 representatives from the Rigsdag, Rønne municipality and Det Danske Luftfartsselskab (DDL) - later a part of Scandinavian Airlines System - made an arrangement about establish a air route between Rønne and Copenhagen. The year after A/S Den bornholmske Flyveplads (The Bornholmish Airport Ltd.) were found and in 1937 the work with clearance of wood and establishment of the airport started. In 1939 the route opened on a temporary licence from the air transport inspection, but it were in need to stop after few days because of the condition of the runway.

The airport were christened on November 16, 1940 and Det Danske Luftfartsselskab started flying with one daily departure to Copenhagen. The route were in 1982 taken over by Maersk Air - later a part of Sterling Airlines - and in 2002 Cimber Air took over the route, after Maersk in more years had flied with deficit. In 2005 started Danish Air Transport a competitive route. Today the airport has 7 daily departures and about 190.000 passagers yearly.

The first airport building were christened in 1941. In 1961 were the first real terminal taken into use. The present terminal is from 1982 while the control tower is from 1977.

In 1947 the state took over the airport, there contemporary changed name to Rønne Airport. In 1992 the name changed again, this time to Bornholm's Airport, amound others after wish from the trades and industries of the island, there wished better oppotunity to market the island. The airport is managed by Statens Luftfartsvæsen (The State's Air Transport System) and the approach control carried out by Naviair.