Besides opening new routes, a number of international airlines have decided to join in on already existing routes, and others again, to increase their capacity on existing routes. The incentive, among other things, is the inauguration of the new low-cost pier CPH Swift in autumn 2010 – an exciting development which both business and leisure travellers visiting Denmark are expected to benefit hugely from.

Only last week, Danish airline Cimber Sterling announced a new route opening up in Autumn between Copenhagen and Tel Aviv. Last month, low-cost-airline Easyjet announced two new, direct flight routes between Copenhagen and Paris and Basel, respectively. The Basel route is based on an increasing demand from Business travellers, a spokesperson from Copenhagen Airport stated, as it will bind two pharmaceutical regions together.

Also last month, Norwegian announced the launch of a new route between Copenhagen and Marrakech. Norwegian is now Copenhagen Airports 2nd largest customer only beaten by SAS – Scandinavian Airlines System. SAS is expected to reopen its route Copenhagen-Shanghai in the course of 2010 too. 

Two international airlines also announced new services to Copenhagen namely; Air Canada who is re-opening its route between Copenhagen and Toronto as well as low-cost airline Anadolujet, who will be offering flights between Copenhagen and Ankara and Copenhagen and Istanbul.

Delta Airlines also recently opened its first direct route between Copenhagen and New York's JFK-airport, and thus improving accessibility to entire North America significantly. The same airline has, however, announced closing down the Copenhagen-Atlanta service, but only during the winter months.

Earlier this Spring, low-cost airline Germanwings also opened a new route from Copenhagen to Cologne six times a week. As such, Copenhagen Airport not only welcomed a new customer, but also a company where presently 42% of its passengers are said to be business customers.

Air France has also opened a route from Copenhagen to France's third largest city, Lyon, and is now the 7th largest company at Copenhagen Airport, with direct flights from Copenhagen to Paris, Strasbourg and Lyon.
Later this year, Egypt Air has announced the opening a direct route between Copenhagen and Cairo which will increase the accessibility to the African continent too.

And finally, Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has applied for takeoff and landing permission for no fewer than 23 new routes from Copenhagen Airport. Not surprisingly, the application coincides with Copenhagen Airport’s opening of the new low-cost pier CPH Swift scheduled to open on 31st October 2010. Copenhagen airport is also in dialogue with several other airlines, all of whom have until mid-August to notify, whether they will use any assigned takeoff and landing permits in Copenhagen or not. 

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For further information about new routes and CPH Swift contact:
Head of Media Relations - Copenhagen Airport, Mr. Søren Hedegaard Nielsen, E-mail: soeren.h.nielsen@cph.dk Tel.: +45 3231 2806