Billund Airport

Coordinates: 55°44′25″N 009°09′07″E / 55.74028°N 9.15194°E / 55.74028; 9.15194
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Billund Airport

Billund Lufthavn
AMSL
247 ft / 75 m
Coordinates55°44′25″N 009°09′07″E / 55.74028°N 9.15194°E / 55.74028; 9.15194
Websitebll.dk
Map
BLL is located in Denmark
BLL
BLL
Location in Denmark
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 3,100 10,172 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers3,739,267 Increase6.6%
Source: AIP[1]

Billund Airport (

charter airline
destination. Most major European airports are connected to Billund via multiple daily scheduled flights.

History

Check-in hall

Early years

Billund Airport had its beginning in 1961 when the son of the founder of the Lego Group, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, established a private 800-meter long runway and hangar north of his factory in Billund. With Christiansen as a key driver, more of the neighbouring municipalities were included in the group of owners, and it was planned that the airport should be expanded to a regular public airport.[2]

The construction of the new airport was carried out during 1964 and the airport opened on 1 November, with one runway at 1660 meters in length and 45 meters width, a small platform where aircraft could be served, and a control tower.[3] Hans Erik Christensen, the former chief pilot at Lego, became director, and the passengers were handled in Lego's hangar until the first terminal building was opened in the spring of 1966.[2] The airport was continuously expanded in the following years, with new facilities, terminal buildings, lounge, tax-free area, and hangars where LC Johansen's studio often participated as an architect (today called Johannsen Architects), while other work was carried out by the airport's own studio.[2]

In 1997, they had an architectural competition for a new 430,000 ft² (40,000 m2) passenger terminal, designed to serve 3.5 million passengers a year, north of the original airport. KHR Architects won the assignment and completed the construction in co-operation with COWI, and at the end of May 2002 the new passenger terminal was put to use, as the first phase of the future expansion, which is scheduled to take place north of the start and runway, while air cargo services, business and private aviation will continue to be served from the existing buildings south of the runway.[4] In connection with this expansion, the largest since the beginning of the airport, it was with effect from 1 January 1997 turned into a joint-stock company, Billund Airport A/S, with the former members Vejle County and municipalities Vejle, Kolding, Grindsted, Billund, and Give as shareholders.[2]

Development since the 2000s

In 2008, the entire runway was renovated and paved, and a new taxiway was built, nicknamed "Mike". This major task only took 14 hours.[

Boeing 737-800 from Ryanair landing at one end of the runway, while they worked at the other end.[citation needed] The same year was also a record year for the airport. 2,546,856 passengers passed through the terminals, an increase of 12.7 percent compared with 2007.[citation needed
]

From mid-2009, the airport was served by nine airlines flying regular flight service, of which KLM had the busiest route with over 200,000 annual passengers to Amsterdam Schiphol. In 2011, Ryanair announced that Billund Airport with effect from 25 March 2012 would be the base for two Boeing 737 aircraft. At the same time, Ryanair published five new routes, so that, from the summer of 2012, they would fly to 19 destinations.[citation needed]

In 2014, Lego produced a limited Lego Architecture set of Billund Airport, which could only be bought in the departure hall's Lego store. In 2018, a new version of this set was released, again in limited quantities.[5]

A new terminal was slated to open in the fall of 2019.[6] It cost more than 100 million Danish kroner.

In late 2023, a theatre performance was installed at the airport.[7]

Corporate affairs

In 2007, Vejle County was abolished after a municipality reform. Its 50% shareholding was then distributed among municipalities in the county leading to the following ownership:[8]

Ownership distribution of Billund Airport
Owner Percentage of shares
Vejle municipality 34.3%
Kolding municipality 25.9%
Billund municipality 15%
Horsens municipality 10.7%
Fredericia municipality 6.9%
Hedensted municipality 6.1%
Ikast-Brande municipality 1%
Billund Airport 0.1%[9]

Capabilities

The airport handles an average of more than three million passengers a year, and millions of pounds of cargo. The airport's main runway can handle airliners as large as the Boeing 747, although most passengers arrive on smaller aeroplanes, such as

Airbus A320s. Boeing 747 activity at this airport is almost exclusively limited to cargo flights.[citation needed
]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Billund:[10]

AirlinesDestinations
Air Dolomiti Frankfurt[11]
Seasonal: Munich[12]
Paris–Charles de Gaulle[13]
Reykjavík–Keflavík[15]
airBaltic Riga[16]
Seasonal: Gran Canaria,[17] Tallinn[18]
Atlantic Airways Vágar[19]
Seasonal charter: Ioannina[20]
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Tenerife–South[21]
British Airways London–Heathrow[22]
DAT Seasonal: Bornholm
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[23][24]
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík[25]
KLM Amsterdam[26]
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin[27]
Lufthansa Frankfurt[28]
Seasonal: Munich[29][30]
Norwegian Air Shuttle[31] Alicante,[32] Oslo,[33] London–Gatwick (begins 30 June 2025),[34] Málaga[32]
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca[32]
Pegasus Airlines Antalya[35]
Play Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík[36]
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen,[37] Oslo,[38] Stockholm–Arlanda[38]
Seasonal charter: Gran Canaria[39]
Heraklion, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South
SunExpress Seasonal: Antalya[41]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Zurich[42][43]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[44]
Barcelona[45]
Widerøe Bergen[46]
Bucharest–Otopeni, Chișinău (begins 27 October 2025),[47] Gdańsk (begins 30 June 2025),[48] Iași, Katowice (begins 27 October 2025),[49] Vilnius (begins 3 July 2025)[50]

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Leipzig/Halle[51]
Ezhou,[52] Hangzhou[52]
Turkish Cargo
Istanbul[51]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BLL airport. See Wikidata query.

Ground transport

The road distance is to Billund 3 kilometres (2 mi), to Vejle 28 kilometres (17 mi), to Kolding 41 kilometres (25 mi), to Esbjerg 61 kilometres (38 mi) and to Aarhus 98 kilometres (61 mi). There are airport buses to Horsens, Skanderborg and Aarhus.[citation needed]

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c d "The Airport on the Moor". Historisk Atlas. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Youngstown Vindicator". No. LXXVI SO. 79. Youngstown Vindicator. 18 November 1964.
  4. ^ "KHR: Billund Airport Project". khr.dk. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  5. ^ "New version of Billund Airport now available". Brickset.com. 26 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Nyheder 24 timer i døgnet - seneste nyt - jp - jyllands-posten.dk".
  7. ^ "Mission & Vision – Det Flyvende Teater". Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Facts". Billund Airport. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  9. ^ Own shares
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  11. ^ Liu, Jim (28 March 2025). "Air Dolomiti NS25 Network Additions". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
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  20. ^ "Apollo Rejser - Bestil ferie-rejser til hele verden på apollorejser.dk".
  21. ^ Liu, Jim (27 March 2024). "BRA NS24 Charter Program With Apollo / Spies / VING". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  22. ^ "British Airways NW24 Heathrow – Europe Frequency Changes – 27OCT24". Aeroroutes. Aeroroutes. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
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  41. ^ Liu, Jim (27 February 2024). "SunExpress NS24 International Frequency Changes – 25FEB24". Aeroroutes.com. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  42. ^ "Newsroom : SWISS to expand schedules from mid-summer onwards". 25 February 2021.
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  49. ^ https://check-in.dk/wizz-air-er-klar-med-tre-nye-ruter-fra-billund/
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  51. ^ a b "Cargo".
  52. ^ a b "Maersk Air Cargo udvider i Billund". scm.dk. 16 October 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2025.

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