Roskilde Airport
Roskilde Airport Københavns Lufthavn, Roskilde Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 55°35′08″N 12°07′53″E / 55.58556°N 12.13139°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | https://www.rke.dk/ | ||||||||||||||
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  RKE Location of airport in Denmark | |||||||||||||||
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Roskilde Airport (IATA: RKE, ICAO: EKRK), officially known as Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn, Roskilde, pronounced [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwns ˈlɔftˌhɑwˀn ˈʁʌskilə]), 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 were allowed to be challenged by privately owned ones (1990s). The former charter airline companies in Europe then more or less had to either become regular challengers or vanish from the market. Hence, no flights with large aircraft have been moved to the airport. The runway is too short for fully loaded jet airliners such as the Boeing 737.
Overview
Operational facilities include:
- ILS approach for runways 11 and 21
- RNAVapproach for runways 03 and 11
- Fuel: Jet A1
- De-icingservice
- Fire fighting category 5, 6 and 7 (on prior notice)
- Met office and ATIS
- Parking and hangar facilities
- Aircraft repairs and overhaul
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 flight schools. It is home to more than half of the Danish fleet of
Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at the airport:
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Anholt, Læsø
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| Starling Air | Ærø, Ringsted, Svendborg |
In 2002 the Ministry for Foreign Affairs Of Denmark reported that
Statistics
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Military operations
A small
Lately Roskilde Airport has been the departure airport of Danish troops deploying to or returning from overseas locations, primarily Afghanistan, due to its more private and secluded atmosphere, compared to the far busier Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup.
Ground transportation
Bus and train services from around the country to the nearby town of Roskilde are extensive, but bus services to and from the airport are infrequent due to its limited use, and the primary means of getting to/from the airport is by own car or taxi. The road distance to the airport from Roskilde is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) and from Copenhagen 40 kilometres (25 mi).
See also
- List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries
References
- ^ "Report on expansion of EKRK" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2012.
- AIP Denmark: Copenhagen/Roskilde - EKRK
- VFR Flight Guide Denmark: Copenhagen/Roskilde - EKRK
External links
Media related to Roskilde Airport at Wikimedia Commons- Roskilde Airport
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