Cologne / Bonn Airport ( Flughafen Köln / Bonn , ( IATA : CGN , ICAO : EDDK )), also known as Konrad Adenauer Airport, is an international civil airport located in the suburban area of Cologne Porz ( Germany ) in the Vaner Nature Reserve Heide The port is located in the Cologne / Bonn Region , 15 kilometers southeast of the central part of Cologne and 16 kilometers northeast of Bonn .
| Cologne / Bonn Airport | |||||||||||||
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| Flughafen köln / bonn | |||||||||||||
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 Airport view from the air | |||||||||||||
| IATA : CGN - ICAO : EDDK | |||||||||||||
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| Type of | civil | ||||||||||||
| A country |  Germany | ||||||||||||
| Location | Cologne , Germany | ||||||||||||
| opening date | 1938 | ||||||||||||
| Owner | Cologne city (31.12%) Germany (30.94%) North Rhine-Westphalia (30.94%) city of Bonn (6.06%) | ||||||||||||
| Operator | Flughafen Köln / Bonn GmbH | ||||||||||||
| Hub for | Eurowings FedEx Express Germanwings UPS Airlines | ||||||||||||
| NUM height | +77 m | ||||||||||||
| Square | 1000 ha | ||||||||||||
| Timezone | UTC +1 | ||||||||||||
| • In the summer | UTC + 2 | ||||||||||||
| Working hours | around the clock | ||||||||||||
| Site | koeln-bonn-airport.de | ||||||||||||
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Airport on map of Germany | |||||||||||||
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| Annual passenger traffic | ▲ 11 910 138 | ||||||||||||
| Annual freight traffic | 770 974 t | ||||||||||||
| Takeoff / landing | ▲ 136 905 | ||||||||||||
Cologne / Bonn Airport ranks sixth in terms of passenger turnover among all airports in Germany and is one of the few round-the-clock airports in the country. In 2016, the number of passengers using the services of the port amounted to 11.91 million people (a record figure in the history of the airport), an increase of 1.5 million compared to 2015. The main passenger traffic in 2016 was at the airports of Berlin-Tegel (638 thousand), Munich (483 thousand), Palma de Mallorca (476 thousand), Berlin-Schönefeld (299 thousand), Antalya (262 thousand) . Among the countries, the airport's passenger traffic in 2016 was Germany (1.7 million passengers), Spain (1.04 million), Turkey (0.66 million), Italy (0.46 million), and Great Britain (0.37 million).
Cologne / Bonn also ranks second in the list of the busiest airports in Germany in terms of air cargo tonnage.
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History
The first flights from the military training base of artillery reconnaissance units in Vaner Heide began in 1913. In 1939, a full-fledged Luftwaffe airfield was built on the site of the airfield site, which was later used during the Second World War .
After the war ended, the airfield came under the control of the British military, which carried out a number of works to expand the territory and reconstruct some of the air traffic control facilities. In 1951, the first paved runway with a length of 1866 meters was built, and in the same year the airport was open for civilian aircraft.
In the 1950-1960s, two more runways and a new building of the passenger terminal were put into operation. On November 1, 1970, the airport received the first wide-body airliner, the Boeing 747 , operating a flight New York - Cologne - New York.
In 1986, the American company UPS Airlines selected Cologne / Bonn Airport as its main transit hub in Europe .
In the late 1990s, the airport management began implementing a large-scale program to expand and reconstruct the airport complex, during which the building of the second passenger terminal, a number of new parking lots were built, and in 2004 the Cologne / Bonn Airport station of the Intercity- network was commissioned Express on the high-speed rail Cologne - Frankfurt .
In 2006, the US main airline Continental Airlines introduced a flight to Cologne / Bonn Airport from Newark Liberty Airport , operated daily on Boeing 757-200 aircraft . Due to the reduction in passenger traffic, this flight was canceled on September 4, 2008 [1] .
Low Cost Airlines
Cologne / Bonn Airport is a convenient transit hub for low cost airlines in Germany. The airport tariff policy made it possible to attract German discounters Germanwings and TUIfly in the fall of 2002, who later chose Cologne / Bonn as one of their main hubs . At the end of 2003, they were joined by the British budget carrier EasyJet, and in June 2006 - by the airline Wizz Air . Relatively low prices for aircraft maintenance resulted in an unprecedented increase in passenger traffic at Cologne / Bonn airport in 2003, which was 43% compared to the same period last year.
Since 2015, the airport serves direct flights of Pobeda Airlines from Moscow Vnukovo Airport. From February 17, 2017, the airline opened direct flights from St. Petersburg.
Currently, the airport management expresses a desire to attract airlines that can open low-cost transatlantic routes from Cologne / Bonn airport on a regular basis.
Airlines and Destinations
| Airline | Destinations | Terminal |
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| Air via | Burgas (seasonal), Varna (seasonal) | 2 |
| Austrian Airlines performed by Tyrolean Airways | Vein | one |
| Blue air | Sibiu | 2 |
| Bmibaby | East Midlands (since October 31, 2010) | 2 |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Burgas (seasonal), Varna (seasonal) | 2 |
| Condor | Antalya (seasonal), Dalaman (from May 3, 2010, seasonal), Fuerteventura, Heraklion (from May 1, 2010, seasonal), Hurghada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca (seasonal), Tenerife | 2 |
| Czech Airlines | Prague | 2 |
| Easyjet | London (Gatwick) | 2 |
| Freebird Airlines | Antalya, Istanbul (since May 20, 2010) | 2 |
| Germanwings | Ankara, Antalya, Athens (seasonal), Barcelona, Bastia, Belgrade, Berlin (Schoenefeld), Bologna, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Corfu, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Friedrichhaven, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Yekaterinburg, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Faro, Friedrichhaven, Fuerteventura, Iraklion, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Friedrichhaven, Fuerteventura, Heraklion Sabiha Gokcen ), Izmir, Kavala, Kiev (Borispol), Klagenfurt, Kos (restored from May 1, 2010, seasonal), Krakow, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Leipzig, Lisbon, London (Stansted), Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan (Malpensa), Moscow (Vnukovo), Munich, Mycenae (restored from May 2, seasonal), Nice, Palma de Mallorca, P raga, Pristina, Pula, Reykjavik (Keflavik), Rhodes, Rome (Fiumicino), Rostock (Laage), Salzburg, Santorini (May 1, 2010), Sarajevo, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg (Pulkovo-2), Stockholm ( Arlanda), Tel Aviv, Tenerife, Thessaloniki, Tirana (since June 19, 2010), Venice, Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Zadar, Zagreb, Zurich | one |
| Intersky | Friedrichshaven | 2 |
| Iran Air | Tehran (Imam Khomeini) | 2 |
| Klm performs KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam | 2 |
| Pobeda | Moscow (Vnukovo); St. Petersburg | 2 |
| Wizz air | Gdansk, Katowice, Kiev (Boryspil - until 03.2011) (Zhulyany from 03.2011) | 2 |
Cargo Airlines
| Airline | Destinations |
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| FedEx Express | in May 2010, the airport becomes a hub in Western Europe |
| FedEx Feeder performs Air Contractors | Paris - Charles de Gaulle |
| UPS Airlines | Louisville, Malmo, Newark (Liberty), Philadelphia |
| UPS Airlines performs Bluebird Cargo | Cork, Edinburgh, Reykjavik (Keflavik) |
| UPS Airlines performs Farnair Switzerland | Basel / Mulhouse, Geneva (Quantrand), Katowice, Prague, Zurich |
| UPS Airlines performs Star Air (Maersk Air) | Copenhagen, Dublin, Paris - Charles de Gaulle, Shannon |
Notes
- ↑ Announcement on the official website of Continental Airlines (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 16, 2010. Archived November 16, 2009.
Links
- Official website of the airport (English) (German) (nid.)
- Airport Weather (eng.)