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Trending upwards: An expansion programme is underway at Copenhagen Airport to accommodate passenger growth |
DENMARK. Largely driven by long-haul intercontinental routes, Copenhagen Airport has recorded its busiest ever October with a +6.2% increase in passenger numbers compared to the same month in 2014.
A total of 2,476,553 passengers travelled through the airport, with an expansion of Pier C recently completed to accommodate the growth. International traffic grew by +7.1%, as did European traffic. However, domestic traffic was down by -5%, attributed to lower capacity, and transfer traffic fell by –3.7%.
A +2.5% year to date increase over 2014, to 22,607,558 million passengers, has also been recorded.
Copenhagen Airports CEO Thomas Woldbye said the overall growth underlined the need to expand the airport and “grow from 25 to 40 million passengers annually over the next couple of decades”.
He said: “Most recently, we expanded one of our main runways and the pier used for intercontinental traffic, Pier C, adding an additional 6,300sq m of space to accommodate the growth and the biggest passenger airliners.”
Woldbye also noted that the number of long-haul routes out of Copenhagen had doubled in the past decade, reaching 34 routes next year. “More routes and more frequencies is good news for Denmark. It means that we can attract more tourists and business travellers to our country; companies all over Denmark will be better able to do business globally, and Danish leisure travellers will have even more destinations to choose from,” he said.
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