Cologne/Bonn Airport Flughafen Köln/Bonn
IATA: CGN - ICAO: EDDK
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH
Serves		Cologne, Germany
Elevation AMSL		252 ft (77 m)
Coordinates		50°52′02″N, 07°08′37″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
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 2006 the number of passengers climbed to 9,9 million. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1077, 928 KB) en Terminal 1 of the Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN) de Terminal 1 des Flughafen Köln/Bonn (CGN) photo by User:Qualle, 12-Aug-2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Cologne Bonn Airport ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... The article about perfume can be found at Eau de Cologne. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... Base layer of asphalt concrete in a road under construction. ... Base layer of asphalt concrete in a road under construction. ... Concrete being poured, raked and vibrated into place in residential construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... km redirects here. ... For other uses, see Cologne (disambiguation). ... Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

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. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... This or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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. The Boeing 747, commonly nicknamed the Jumbo Jet, is a long-haul, widebody commercial airliner manufactured by Boeing. ...

In 1986 Cologne/Bonn Airport was chosen by UPS as the location for their European hub. United Parcel Service Inc. ...

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 on the new ICE-high-speed-track Cologne-Frankfurt was opened. ICE2 train in the station The glass-roof of the station Fernbahnhof Köln/Bonn Flughafen is a railway station in Cologne, Germany that connects Cologne Bonn Airport to long-distance trains, most of them ICE services following the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. ... ICE 1 powerhead The InterCityExpress or ICE (German pronunciation: ) is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and its neighbouring countries. ...

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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 Wizzair in June 2006. Germanwings Airbus A319 at Dortmund Airport Germanwing Airbus A319 Germanwings is a low fares airline based in Cologne, Germany. ... TUIfly Boeing 737-800 D-AHFI at Munich Airport TUIfly is a German airline that was founded in January 2007 as a cooperation of Hapag-Lloyd Flug and Hapag-Lloyd Express whose brands Hapagfly and HLX.com are no longer used. ... easyJet (LSE: EZJ) is a low cost airline officially known as easyJet Airline Company Limited, based at London Luton Airport. ... Wizzair is a Polish/Hungarian low-cost airline focusing on the markets of Central Europe. ...

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.

Alternate space shuttle landing site

Cologne/Bonn Airport is one of the emergency landing sites for NASA's Space Shuttle.^[1] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ...

Airlines and destinations

Aerial view

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Terminal 1

• Austrian Airlines
  • operated by Austrian Arrows (Vienna)
• European Air Express (Geneva, Nürnberg)
• Germanwings (Alghero, Alicante, Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Balaton, Barcelona, Bastia, Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bologna, Bucharest-Băneasa, Budapest, Burgas, Corfu, Dresden, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Faro, Helsinki, Heraklion, Ibiza, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kavala, Kraków, Lamezia-Terme, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Mailand-Malpensa, Moskow-Vnukovo, Munich, Nice, Palma, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Pristina, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg - Pulkovo-1, 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)
• Ostfriesische Lufttransport (Rostock/Laage)
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)

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Terminal 2

• Air Berlin (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Berlin-Tegel, Catania, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Korfu, Kos, Las Palmas, Mahon, Malaga, Monastir, Munich, Murcia, Nürnberg, Palma de Mallorca, Teneriffa, Thessaloniki)
• Armavia (Yerevan)
• B&H Airlines (Sarajevo)
• Blue Air (Bucharest-Băneasa)
• Blue Wings (Istanbul-Atatürk)
• Condor Airlines (Antalya, Arrecife, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Jerez de la Frontera, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South)
• Continental Airlines (Newark)
• Czech Airlines (Prague)
• easyJet (Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Nottingham/East Midlands)
• Germania (Tbilisi)
• Hemus Air (Sofia, Varna)
• Inter Airlines (Antalya)
• InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
• Iran Air (Teheran-Mehrabad)
• KLM
  • KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
• LTU International (Antalya, Arrecife, Burgas, Faro, Fuerteventura, Hurghada, Las Palmas, Palma, Varna)
• Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
• Sky Airlines (Antalya)
• SunExpress (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Izmir)
• TUIfly (Antalya, Araxos, Arrecife, Bari, Berlin-Tegel, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bodrum, Cagliari, Calvi, Catania, Chania, Fuerteventura, Graz, Hamburg, Heraklion, Innsbruck, Kerkyra, Klagenfurt, Kos, Lemezia Terme, Las Palmas, Linz, Manchester, Monastir, Nador, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Rhodes, Rijeka, Rimini, Salzburg, Tanger, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Valencia, Venice, Westerland/Sylt)
• Turkish Airlines (Adana, Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kayseri)
• Tunisair (Monastir)
• Wizz Air (Gdańsk, Katowice)

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External links

• Cologne Bonn Airport (official site)
• World Aero Data airport information for EDDK
• A-Z World Airports: Cologne/Bonn Airport (CGN/EDDK)

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Notes

1. ^ List of Space Shuttle emergency landing sites at GlobalSecurity.org