![]() Meanwhile, Condor cancelled their service to Varadero after only one season due to the expected competition. In December 2014, Lufthansa announced it would base Eurowings' new long-haul operations at Cologne Bonn Airport with flights to Florida, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean to start by the end of 2015. In April 2014, Ryanair announced the opening of their fifth German base at Cologne/Bonn Airport for October 2014. Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Norwegian Air Shuttle began service to Cologne/Bonn in May 2012. This route was discontinued on 4 September 2008 due to a reduction in passenger numbers. Also in 2006, a daily transatlantic flight to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines was established, operating with a Boeing 757-200. In 2006, the Brazilian airline BRA provided a twice a week connection to Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, which was discontinued in April 2007 due to problems with the airline. These airlines were joined by easyJet in late 2003 and Wizz Air in June 2006.Īlso, the Canadian Forces began to use the airport as a staging area to move troops and supplies in support of humanitarian missions and possible anti-terrorism roles. As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared to 2002. Consequently, Germanwings and TUIfly started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. 21st centuryĬoinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacities. Several new parking lots, a new control tower and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a new long-distance railway station connecting the airport with InterCityExpress trains was opened. In the mid-1990s the airport started another major expansion program. īy 1990, the airport handled three million passengers per year. Ĭologne Bonn Airport was chosen by United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1986 as the location for their European hub. In 1978, the airport handled more than 2 million passengers for the first time. The airport's passenger and freight facilities have been extended substantially during the 1970s. The new passenger termina, which still exists today as Terminal 1, was inaugurated in 1970. That same year Lufthansa inaugurated the first scheduled intercontinental service from Cologne/Bonn to New York City. A second and third runway was opened in 19 subsequently. The first scheduled international route was London-Cologne/Bonn-Berlin operated by BEA, inaugurated on 1 January 1951. In 1950 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic to serve both Cologne and West Germany's then new capital, Bonn, superseding the former Cologne Butzweilerhof Airport. A 1,866 m runway was built in this period. After World War II the British military took over and expanded the airport (as RAF Wahn). In 1938, the first airfield was built on site for the German Luftwaffe. The airport is jointly owned by the City of Cologne (31.12%), the Federal Republic of Germany (30.94%), the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (30.94%), the City of Bonn (6.06%) and two counties: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (0.59%) and Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (0.35%). It is also a host of the German and European space agencies DLR and EAC, part of ESA, which train astronauts there for space explorations.Ĭologne Bonn airport is only 49 km (30 mi) south of larger Düsseldorf Airport, the main airport of Rhine-Ruhr, and also competes with Frankfurt Airport, Germany's major international airport, which can be reached from Cologne within 47 minutes by the ICE high-speed train. Cologne Bonn Airport is one of the country's few 24-hour airports and serves as a hub for Eurowings, FedEx Express and UPS Airlines as well as a focus city for several leisure and low-cost airlines. The airport is centrally located in the Cologne Bonn Region 12 km (7.5 mi) southeast of Cologne city centre and 16 km (9.9 mi) northeast of Bonn. The airport is located in the district of Porz and is surrounded by Wahner Heide, a nature reserve. The airport is named after Cologne native Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war Chancellor of West Germany. As of March 2015, Cologne Bonn Airport had services to 115 passenger destinations in 35 countries. By traffic units, which combines cargo and passengers, the airport is in fifth position in Germany. ![]() With approximately 12.4 million passengers passing through it in 2017, it is the seventh-largest passenger airport in Germany and the third-largest in terms of cargo operations. Cologne Bonn Airport ( German: Flughafen Köln/Bonn Konrad Adenauer) ( IATA: CGN, ICAO: EDDK) is the international airport of Germany's fourth-largest city Cologne, and also serves Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.
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