Cologne Bonn Airport

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Cologne/Bonn Airport Flughafen Köln/Bonn
Image:CGN Terminal1.jpg
IATA: CGN - ICAO: EDDK
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Cologne, Germany</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		252 ft (77 m)
Coordinates		50°52′02″N, 07°08′37″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
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.

1 History
2 Low-cost carriers
3 Alternate space shuttle landing site
4 Airlines and Destinations
- 4.1 Terminal 1
- 4.2 Terminal 2
5 External links
6 Notes

[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.<ref>List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org</ref>

[edit] Airlines and Destinations

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[edit] Terminal 1

Austrian Airlines
- operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
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

Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Athens, Barcelona, Bilbao, Budapest, Catania, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Korfu, Kos, Las Palmas, Mahon, Malaga, Monastir, Murcia, Nürnberg, Palma, Teneriffa, Thessaloniki)
Atlasjet (Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk)
B&H Airlines (Sarajevo)
Blue Wings (Istanbul-Atatürk)
BRA Transportes Aéreos (Rio de Janeiro)
Condor Airlines (Antalya, Arrecife, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South)
Continental Airlines (Newark)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
dba (Berlin-Tegel, Munich, Tiflis)
easyJet (Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Nottingham/East Midlands)
FlyLal (Palanga)
Hapagfly (Antalya, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas)
HLX.com (Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham, Cagliari, Catania, Hamburg, Klagenfurt, Manchester, Neapel, Olbia, Palermo, Palma, Pisa, Porto, Rijeka, Rimini, Salzburg, Valencia, Venedig, Westerland/Sylt)
Hemus Air (Sofia)
Inter Airlines (Antalya)
InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
Iran Air (Teheran)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
LTU International (Antalya, Arrecife, Burgas, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas, Palma, Varna)
Onur Air (Antalya)
Sky Airlines (Antalya)
SkyEurope (Bratislava)
SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Izmir)
Turkish Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kayseri)
Tunisair (Monastir)
Wizz Air (Gdańsk, Katowice)