Copenhagen Airport the largest hub in Northern Europe

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Two million passengers passed through Copenhagen Airport in November.

That is a 12 per cent increase year on year. The number of transfer passengers has improved by 40 per cent in the last twelve months.

This has been strengthening the airport’s position as the largest hub in northern Europe.

Fortunately, the extraordinary appetite for travel continued during the autumn months. The pax numbers for November totalled 1,957,215 passengers passing through the CPH terminals.

A growing number of passengers are using Copenhagen Airport as a stopover on their journey to destinations around the world.

In November alone, the airport served a total of 350,000 transfer passengers, 60,000 more than in November of last year.

The majority of transfer passengers at Copenhagen Airport fly in from airports in Sweden, Norway or Denmark.

It is more efficient and has less of a climate impact for airlines to gather its passengers and fill a flight to Chicago.

The number of transfer passengers passing through Copenhagen was up by 40 per cent in comparison with last year. It happened during the first eleven months of 2023.

This means that this year so far more than 4.4 million transfer journeys have been made in, to and out of Copenhagen Airport.

The majority of passengers were those travelling with SAS.

North America in a strong position

The increase in the number of transfer passengers is primarily due to the growing popularity of routes from Copenhagen to the USA and Canada.

North American destinations are strongly represented at Copenhagen Airport, as the winter programme includes nine routes to eight destinations in the USA and Canada.

The routes to the USA and Canada are performing extremely well. They have now more routes than they did in 2019.

They are seeing many passengers from Sweden and Norway using Copenhagen as the starting point for their journey to the USA.

The same goes for traffic coming the other way.

A growing number of Americans are travelling to Denmark, and for many of them, Copenhagen is the starting point of their onward journey in Europe. Krogsgaard says it.

Busy days ahead of the Christmas holidays

December is a busy time for people preparing for Christmas.

Once again this year, London is a big favourite, and with up to 21 daily departures to the British capital, there are plenty of flights to choose form.

London is the most popular destination out of Copenhagen all year round.

But, according to Krogsgaard, this is especially true in December. At this time many people take a weekend break or a few days in December to soak up that special London atmosphere.

On the other hand, December and January among the quieter months of the year at Copenhagen Airport.

Still, it will be busy at the airport during the days leading up to the holidays.

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