Roskilde Airport
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Roskilde Airport Københavns Lufthavn, Roskilde Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Copenhagen Airports A/S | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Copenhagen | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Roskilde | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 146 ft / 45 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°35′08″N 12°07′53″E / 55.58556°N 12.13139°ECoordinates: 55°35′08″N 12°07′53″E / 55.58556°N 12.13139°E | ||||||||||||||
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Roskilde Airport (IATA: RKE, ICAO: EKRK), officially known as Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn, Roskilde), is located 4 nautical miles (7 km) southeast of Roskilde near the town Tune. It was opened in 1973 as the first of three planned relief airports around Copenhagen. These plans were shelved shortly after, and the two other relief airports never made it past the planning stage. The airport is owned and operated by Københavns Lufthavne A/S (Copenhagen Airports) which also operates Copenhagen's major airport at Kastrup. The airport had 25,053 passengers in 2003. The airport is fully equipped, but most flights from this airport are taxi-flights, small-plane regular flights to minor domestic islands or business jets.
It was once discussed to move all charter flights from Copenhagen Airport to this airport, but then the European aviation market changed as national airliners was allowed to be challenged by privately owned ones. The former charter airline companies in Europe then more or less had to either become regular challengers - or vanish from the market. Hence has no flights with large aircraft been moved to this airport.
Operational facilities include:
The airport is open around the clock and has immigration and customs facilities for international traffic, but it is used primarily for taxi, business, and training flights and the airport serves as base for several flights schools. It is home to more than half of the Danish fleet of GA-aircraft. Roskilde Airport is planning an expansion of the runways and airport facilities to receive regular flights of low-cost international and charter operators, including aircraft types of Boeing 737 and Airbus A320-family sizes. However, due to lack of commitment from airline carriers these plans have been postponed until further notice.
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