Cologne Bonn Airport

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Cologne/Bonn Airport
Flughafen Köln/Bonn
IATA: CGN - ICAO: EDDK
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH
Serves Cologne, Germany
Elevation AMSL 252 ft (77 m)
Coordinates 50°52′02″N, 07°08′37″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14L/32R 12,516 3,815 Asphalt
14R/32L 6,122 1,866 Asphalt
06/24 8,070 2,460 Concrete

Cologne/Bonn Airport (German: Flughafen Köln/Bonn, also called Konrad-Adenauer-Flughafen or Flughafen Köln-Wahn) (IATA: CGN, ICAO: EDDK) is an international airport located in the Wahner Heide nature reserve, 15 km southeast of Cologne and 16 km northeast of Bonn. It is the sixth largest airport in Germany and one of the country's few 24-hour airports. In terms of cargo flights it is second. In 2005 the number of passengers climbed to 9,5 million.

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[edit] History

In 1913 the first plane took off from the Wahner Heide military training area on an artillery reconnaissance flight. In 1939 an airfield was built for the German Luftwaffe.

After World War II, British military took over and expanded the airport. A 1,866m-runway was built in this period. In 1951 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic.

During the 50s and 60s two more runways and a new terminal were constructed. On 1 November 1970 a Boeing 747 took off for New York for the first time.

In 1986 Cologne/Bonn Airport was chosen by UPS as the location for their European hub.

In the late 90s the Airport started an expansion program. Several new parking lots and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a railway station on the new ICE-high-speed-track Cologne-Frankfurt was opened.

Among several other new air connections in 2006 is a daily transatlantic flight to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines.

[edit] Low-cost carriers

Coinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacity. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. Consequently, Germanwings and Hapag-Lloyd Express started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. They were joined by easyJet in late 2003 and Wizzair in June 2006.

As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared to 2002.

The airport is actively searching for airlines willing to establish the first trans-atlantic low-cost flights.

[edit] Alternate space shuttle landing site

Cologne/Bonn Airport is one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle.[1]

[edit] Airlines and Destinations

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[edit] Terminal 1

  • Austrian Airlines
  • European Air Express (Genf, Nürnberg)
  • Germanwings (Alghero (Sardinia), Alicante, Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Budapest, Bukarest, Burgas, Corfu, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Helsinki, Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Jerez de la Frontera, Kavala, Kraków, Lamezia-Terme, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Mailand-Malpensa, Moskow-Vnukovo, Munich, Nice, Oslo, Palma, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pristina, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Sarajevo, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Varna, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Zadar, Zagreb, Zürich)
  • Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter (Erfurt)
  • Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London-Heathrow, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)

[edit] Terminal 2

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org
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