Cologne Bonn Airport

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Coordinates: 50°51′57″N 007°08′34″E / 50.86583, 7.14278

Cologne/Bonn Airport
Flughafen Köln/Bonn

IATA: CGN – ICAO: EDDK
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH
Serves Cologne/Bonn
Location Wahner Heide nature reserve
Elevation AMSL 302 ft / 92 m
Website www.airport-cgn.de
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 2,459 8,068 Concrete
14L/32R 3,815 12,516 Asphalt
14R/32L 1,863 6,112 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2007)
Aircraft Movements 151,020
Passengers 10,471,657
Source: AIP[1]
Statistics from 2006 Annual Report[2]

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 city centre[1] 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 2007 the number of passengers increased to 10.47 million, from 9.9 million in 2006. [2]

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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 the British military took over and expanded the airport. A 1,866 m runway was built in this period and 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 City for the first time.

In 1986 Cologne/Bonn Airport was chosen by United Parcel Service (UPS) as the location for their European hub.

In the late 1990s the Airport started an expansion program. Several new parking lots and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a new long-distance railway station, Bahnhof Köln/Bonn Flughafen, on the new InterCityExpress (ICE) Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line 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 TUIfly) started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. They were joined by EasyJet in late 2003 and Wizz Air 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.[3]

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aerial view
Aerial view

[edit] Terminal 1

  • Austrian Airlines
  • bmi
  • B&H Airlines (Sarajevo)
  • Cirrus Airlines (Geneva)
  • Germanwings (Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Bordeaux (begins summer 2008), Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Burgas, Cluj Napoca, Corfu, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Katowice, Kavala, Lamezia Terme, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Malta, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moskow-Vnukovo, Munich, Nice, Osijek (begins spring 2008), Palma, Prague, Pristina, Pula (begins summer 2008), Reykjavik-Keflavik (begins summer 2008), Rhodes, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Varna, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Zadar, Zagreb, Zürich)
  • Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, London-Heathrow, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Heringsdorf)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)

[edit] Terminal 2

[edit] Cargo Airlines

[edit] Space

Cologne Airport is host of the German space agency DLR, part of ESA which trains astronauts there for Space Explorations. Apart from that Cologne Airport is one of NASA's world-wide 19 non-American Space Shuttle abort landing sites.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Aeronautical Information Publication from European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
  2. ^ a b Annual Report 2006
  3. ^ List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org
  4. ^ Official Fedex Press Release

Schedule April-June 2008 [[2]]

[edit] External links

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