The official opening of Copenhagen Airport was on 20 April 1925. Since then the Airport has grown to one of the major airports in Europe. 5.082 passengers used the Airport in 1925, in 2007 this number has risen to over 21.400.000 passengers. The Airport itself has also become bigger since 1925, now with 3 terminals and 3 runways. Copenhagen Airport has been awarded the best airport in Europe 5 years in a row now.

For the enthusiast the Airport Terminal (landside) is a nightmare, because without a bordingpass non of the movements can be seen from the International Terminals. Anyone who want to do some planespotting must go to Kystvejen or Flyvergrillen or some of the other points on the map click here

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Flyvergrillen

Flyvergrillen is a  burgerbar located at the end of Amager Landevej. It takes about 35 min (about 2 miles) to walk from the Airport Terminal to Flyvergrillen, walk past the Domestic Terminal and when you come to Gate Goumet, turn left and it just straight ahead. All the movements can be seen from here and good photographs is also possible from this point in the afternoon. After about 3pm the sun is in your back for the rest of the day. Flyvergrillen is open from 10.30 untill dark, but is it possible to spot from there, before it opens.

Kystvejen

The walk to Kystvejen is about 15 min from the Terminal. From Terminal 3 (arrivals) go past the taxi's and through the parking lots following the airport buildings. When you come to a round about (at McDonalds, Netto and Statoil) follow the signs to DHL/Cargo walking with the SAS hangars on you righthand side. Here you have the sun in your back untill about 3pm. After that you can go to the other side of the runway or Flyvergrillen. The cargoarea at the eastern end of the airport can also be seen from this spot. The main operator of the cargoapron here are Aviavilsa, Danish Air Transport, DHL, Korean Air, Fedex, West Air Sweden and RAF-avia. From Kystvejen the aircraft parked outside the SAS hangars can be seen, and also the gates that the SAS DASH 8-400 uses can be seen from here. Singapore uses the cargoapron at SAS Cargo Center located at the SAS hangars. Kystvejen is a noparking zone, so don't park your car there!!! Drive past the runway lights and park your car at one of the parking lost on you right hand side just a little further on. When 22L are in use this is the place to be.

When runway 04R are in use there is a good spot on Hovedgaden. From this point very good photographs can be taken with the sun behind you untill about 3pm, but a ladder is needed (2 or 3 steps) because there are dobb fences. If you turn left down Nordre Kinkegade and take the small road that follow the fence you can take good pictures as the planes turn into the runway, here there are only one fence. When you drive through the tunnel (under runway 22R-04L) turn left at the next trafficlights by the small church. Follow the road through the small town and in under 1 minute you are at the airport fence. Planes landing on the other runway can also be seen from here, and photos are possible with a 500mm lense!

At the end of runway 04L there is a very good spot for landingshots. You got the sun in your back all day. The only problem is, that you can not see any of the movements inside the airport from this spot as you are too far away. To get there by car, go down Amager Landevej and when the road makes a hard right, follow it (if you go stright ahead you end up at Flyvergrillen) At the first trafficlight, go stright ahead on Tömmerupvej and just follow the road untill you see the runwaylights. This is a no parking zone, so you might be told by police to move on, or you can drive a little bit further on and park your car and then walk back. There is no shops near by here so remember to bring food and drink.

The Airport

Spotting from inside the Airport is also possible (you need a bordingpas to get in) The end of pier B (gate B19) offers good view of the movements. Photos can be hard to get from this point due to aircrafts parked at the gates. Pier A offers some view of the aircrafts and the domestic terminal can be seen from here. Pier C and the end of pier A is for non schengen passengers, so you can only go there if you are travelling outside the EU! From the D gates the commuter area can be seen and some of the cargoaricrafts might be visible from here.

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Radiofrequencies:
Tower: 118,100  118,570  119,350 | Approach: 118,450  119,800  120,250  124,970 | Final: 119,100
Depature: 124,970 | Clearence: 119,900 | Apron: 121,600  121,720  121,900
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Firetraning area:
OY-STD SE210 ex Sterling 1  2  3 | OY-BVH F27 ex Business Flight | OY-BZW Metro 2 ex Muk Air | A-018 Draken ex. RDAF
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Stored:
LN-PIP DC8 ex Chico Dan | LN-RDI, LN-RDO, LN-RDL, LN-RDJ, LN-RDA Dash 8 SAS | OY-KBA A340 SAS
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Cargo service:
Air China B747-4F | China Airlines Cargo B777-2F | Danish Air Transport ATR42-3 | DHL A300, B757-2, B767-3 | Exin An26 | Fedex A300 | Korean Air B747-4F | Singapore B747-4F | West Air Sweden ATP
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Charter service:
Air Cairo A320 | AMC Airlines B737-8 | Astreus B757-2 | Bulgarian Air Charter MD82 | Corsair B747-4 | Freebird A320, A321 | Iberworld A320 | JetTime B737-3 | Nesma Airlines A320 | Novuelair A320 | Onurair A320, A321, MD83 | Pegasus B737-5, B737-8 | Primera Air Scandinavia B737-7, B737-8 | Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia A320, A321, A330 |  Thomson Airways B767-3 | TUIfly Nordic B737-8, B757-2, B767-3
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Scheduled service:
Adria A319, CRJ200, CRJ900 | Aeroflot A319, A320, A321 | Aerosvit/Dniproavia EMB145 | Air Baltic B737-5, B757-2, DASH8 | Air Berlin A319, A320, B737-3, B737-4, B737-7, B737-8, DASH 8-4, F100 | Air Canada B767-3 |  Air France A318, A319, A320 | Atlantic Airways B146-2, B146-RJ100 | Austrian A319, A320, A321, B737-6, B737-8, F100 | BA Cityflyer EMB170 | BH Airlines A319, B737-4 | Blue1 B146-RJ85, B146-RJ100, B717, MD90 | British Airways A319, A320, A321 | British Midland EMB135, EMB145 | Brittair CRJ200, CRJ700 | Brussels Airlines RJ85, RJ100, B737-3, B737-4 | Cimber Sterling ATR42, ATR72, B737-7, CRJ200 | Continental Airlines B757-2 | Croatia Airlines A319, A320, DASH 8-4 | CSA A319, ATR72, B737-5, B737-4 | Danish Air Transport ATR42-3, ATR72-2, MD83 | Delta Airlines B757-2 | EasyJet A319, A320 | Egyptair B737-8 | Estonian CRJ900, B737-5 | Finnair A319, A320, A321, EMB170, EMB190 | Germanwings A319 | Greenlandair A330 | Iberia A320, A321 | Icelandair  B757-2, B757-3 | Iceland Express B737-3, B737-7, B757-2 | Iran Air A300, A310 |  JAT B737-3 | KLM B737-3, B737-4, B737-7, B737-8, B737-9, EMB190 , F70, F100 | LOT EMB170, EMB175 | Lufthansa A319, A320, A321, B737-5, CRJ100, CRJ700, CRJ900 | Malev F70, B737-3, B737-4, B737-6, B737-7, B737-8 | MAT Airlines B737-5 | Montenegro Airlines F100 | NextJet Saab340 | Niki A320, EMB190 | Norwegian B737-3, B737-8 | OLT Saab 340, Saab 2000 | PIA A310, B777-2, B777-3 | Qatar Airways A319, A330-2, A330-3 | SAS A319, A321, A330, A340, B737-7, B737-8, CRJ900, MD80, MD81, MD82, MD87 | SATA A320 | Singapore B777-2 | Skyways F50, Saab 340 | Spanair A320, A321, MD82 | Swiss A319, A320, A321 | Syrian Air A320 | TAP A319, A320, A321 | Thai B747-4 | Transavia B737-7, B737-8 | Turkish A319, A320, A321, B737-8 | Wideroe DASH 8-1, DASH 8-3, DASH 8-Q4
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