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Airport Cologne/Bonn (Germany) - Wahn

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
Coordinates 50°5157N 007°0834E / 50.86583°N 7.14278°E / 50.86583; 7.14278Coordinates: 50°5157N 007°0834E / 50.86583°N 7.14278°E / 50.86583; 7.14278
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, Cologne/Bonn Region, Germany, 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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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 was a daily transatlantic flight to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines who operated the route with a Boeing 757-200. This route was discontinued on September 4th, 2008 due to a reduction in passenger numbers [1].

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.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal 1
Airlines Destinations
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways Vienna
BMI operated by BMI Regional Nottingham/East Midlands
Germanwings Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Bastia, Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Bucharest-Bneasa, Budapest, Corfu, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Hamburg [begins 28 October], Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kavala, Kiev-Borispol, Klagenfurt [begins 25 October], Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [begins 31 October], Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Manchester [begins 25 October], Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moskow-Vnukovo, Munich, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Prague, Pristina, Pula, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rhodes, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostock-Laage, Salzburg [begins 25 October], Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split, St Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife-South [begins 25 October], Thessaloniki, Tirana, Venice-Treviso [begins 25 October], Verona, Vienna, Warsaw, Zadar, Zagreb, Zürich
Lufthansa Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg, London-Heathrow, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Terminal 2
Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Antalya [seasonal], Berlin-Tegel, Burgas [seasonal], Corfu [seasonal], Djerba [seasonal], Fuerteventura, Heraklion [seasonal], Hurghada, Ibiza, Kos [seasonal], Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lamezia Terme [seasonal], Luxor, Malaga [seasonal], Minorca [seasonal], Monastir [seasonal], Munich, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South
Air Via Bourgas, Varna [seasonal]
Blue Air Bucharest-Bneasa, Sibiu
Bulgarian Air Charter Bourgas, Varna [seasonal]
Condor Airlines Antalya, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South
Czech Airlines Prague
EasyJet London-Gatwick
Freebird Airlines Antalya
Hamburg International Antalya, Bergen, Dubrovnik, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kirkenes, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Patras-Araxos, Umeĺ
InterSky Friedrichshafen
Iran Air Teheran-Imam Khomeini
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper Amsterdam
Ostfriesische Lufttransport Heringsdorf
Pegasus Airlines Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Sky Airlines Antalya
SunExpress Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir
TUIfly Algiers, Antalya, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Brindisi, Cagliari, Cairo, Calvi, Catania, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Graz, Hamburg, Heraklion, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Manchester [ends 30 August], Memmingen, Nador, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rhodes, Rijeka, Rimini, Salzburg, Tangier, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Tunis, Valencia, Venice-Maro Polo, Vienna [begins 31 August], Westerland/Sylt
Turkish Airlines Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk
Wizz Air Gdask, Katowice, Kiev-Boryspil

Cargo airlines
Airlines Destinations
Bluebird Cargo Cork, Keflávik
UPS Louisville, Malmo, Newark
UPS operated by Farnair Switzerland UPS Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, Prague, Zurich
FedEx Express Eastern Europe - Starting in May 2010, will be the largest FedEx hub in Germany [3]

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[4].

Concessions

Since 2000, CGN has greatly increased their passenger service sector which includes its restaurant and shop selection. There are plans to further expand the concession selection in Terminal 1.

Terminal 1

Terminal 2

Notes

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

Schedule April-June 2008 [4]

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