DENMARK. Copenhagen Airport has reported a +6.7% year-on-year increase in passenger traffic in August, to 2.7 million.
Passenger numbers were up +7.8% on intercontinental routes during the month. Between January and August, intercontinental traffic at the airport has risen +10.5%. More than two million travellers have flown on one of the airport’s 32 long-haul routes this year.
Copenhagen Airport CEO Thomas Woldbye
Copenhagen Airport CEO Thomas Woldbye said this showed “significant and important growth”.
He commented: “Copenhagen Airport is an international hub, and in this context, long-haul intercontinental routes play a key role.
“We have in recent years worked intensely on attracting new routes, especially to North America and Asia, because intercontinental routes help strengthen Copenhagen Airport’s position as a hub that travellers from all over northern Europe use to connect to flights to the rest of the world.
“The long-haul routes are used not just by Danish leisure and business travellers, but to a great extent also by incoming leisure and business passengers, for instance from the United States.”
Domestic traffic was up +5.6% in August, with +6.7% more travellers on European routes.
Year-to-date traffic at Copenhagen Airport has increased +10.2%, as a total of 19.4 million passengers passed through the airport in the first eight months of 2016.
