Cologne Bonn Airport

Cologne Bonn Airport Flughafen Köln/Bonn
IATA: CGN ICAO: EDDK
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH
Serves	Cologne and Bonn
Location	Cologne, Germany
Hub for	Eurowings FedEx Express Germanwings UPS Airlines
Focus city for	Ryanair SunExpress Deutschland TUI fly Deutschland
Elevation AMSL	302 ft / 92 m
Coordinates	50°51′57″N 007°08′34″E
Website	koeln-bonn-airport.de
Map
EDDK Location of airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 06/24 2,459 8,068 Concrete/Asphalt 14L/32R 3,815 12,516 Asphalt 14R/32L 1,863 6,112 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 11,910,138 Passenger change 15-16 15.2% Aircraft movements 136.905 Movements change 15-16 6.4%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ADV German AIP at EUROCONTROL

Cologne Bonn Airport (German: Flughafen Köln/Bonn, also known as Flughafen Köln-Wahn) (IATA: CGN, ICAO: EDDK) is the international airport of Germany's fourth-largest city Cologne, and also serves Bonn, capital of the former West Germany. With around 10.3 million passengers passing through it in 2015, it is the seventh-largest passenger airport in Germany and the third-largest in terms of cargo operations. By traffic units, which combines cargo and passengers, the airport is in fifth position in Germany. As of March 2015, Cologne Bonn Airport had services to 115 passenger destinations in 35 countries. It is named after Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war Chancellor of West Germany.

The airport is located in the district of Porz and is surrounded by the Wahner Heide nature reserve. The airport is centrally located in the Cologne/Bonn Region 14.8 km (9.2 mi) southeast of Cologne city centre and 16 km (9.9 mi) northeast of Bonn. Cologne Bonn Airport is one of the country's few 24-hour airports and serves as a hub for Eurowings and Germanwings, FedEx Express and UPS Airlines. 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.

History

Early years

In 1913, the first plane took off from the Wahner Heide military training area on an artillery reconnaissance flight. In 1939 an airfield was built for the German Luftwaffe.

After World War II the British military took over and expanded the airport. A 1,866 m runway was built in this period. In 1951 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic, superseding the former Cologne Butzweilerhof Airport.

During the 1950s and 1960s two additional runways and a new passenger terminal were constructed. On 1 November 1970 a Boeing 747 took off for New York City from the airport for the first time.

Cologne Bonn Airport was chosen by United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1986 as the location for their European hub.

In the late 1990s the airport started an expansion program. Several new parking lots and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a new long-distance railway station was opened. 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 (0.94%).

Development in the 2000s

Coinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacities. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. Consequently, Germanwings and TUIfly started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared to 2002. These airlines were joined by easyJet in late 2003 and Wizz Air in June 2006.

Also, 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.

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. 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. This route was discontinued on 4 September 2008 due to a reduction in passenger numbers.

Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Norwegian Air Shuttle began service to Cologne/Bonn in May 2012. In April 2014 Ryanair announced the opening of their fifth German base at Cologne/Bonn Airport for October 2014.

In December 2014, Lufthansa announced to 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. Meanwhile, Condor cancelled their service to Varadero after only one season due to the expected competition.

In June 2015 the airport received the ACI EUROPE Best Airport Award in the category of those handling 5 to 10 million passengers.

Facilities

Terminal overview; Terminal 1 is on the left with the connecting hall between both main piers still under construction, Terminal 2 on the right

Cologne Bonn Airport has two passenger terminals which are located directly beside each other:

Terminal 1

The older Terminal 1 is a 1970s building that sports large surfaces of bare concrete in its design. It features a u-shaped main building with shops, restaurants, check-in and service facilities and a visitors deck on its roof as well as the star-shaped piers B and C with five aircraft stands each plus a central airside hall between them added in 2004 with joint security-check facilities, more shops and restaurants as well as three additional stands. All ten stands at both piers feature jet bridges while the other three use walk-boarding. Also several bus-boarding stands are available at the apron. Terminal 1 is used by Eurowings and Germanwings which occupy most of the landside check-in facilities, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines. Terminal 1 features its own direct connection to the railway station.

Terminal 2

Construction of Terminal 2 began in June 1997, and operations at the terminal commenced on 21 June 2000. It is located to the north of Terminal 1. Both feature separate check-in facilities but are connected through a landside walkway. As part of a plan-approval procedure the airport is currently seeking approval for building an airside connection between both terminals. Terminal 2 is a modern-style rectangular building made out of glass and steel which is equipped with eight stands with jet bridges as well as several stands for bus-boarding. It is used by several airlines such as Air Berlin, Ryanair, KLM and Iran Air. Terminal 2 is also directly connected to the airports' railway station via the basement level. The terminal hosts an interdenominational prayer room on its base level.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Cologne Bonn Airport:

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia Maroc	Agadir (begins 2 October 2017), Nador
Air Berlin	Berlin–Tegel, Munich
Air VIA	Seasonal charter: Varna
AtlasGlobal	Seasonal: Antalya, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Bulgarian Air Charter	Seasonal charter: Burgas, Varna
Blue Air	Bucharest, Iași
Condor	Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca (begins 1 November 2017) Seasonal charter: Dubai-Al Maktoum
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya
Ellinair	Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Eurowings	Dresden, Funchal, Hamburg, Milan–Malpensa, Prague
Eurowings operated by Air Berlin	Dublin, Edinburgh, Innsbruck (begins 7 December 2017), Leipzig/Halle, Nice (begins 22 December 2017), Tunis (begins 4 November 2017) Seasonal: Grenoble (begins 11 December 2017)
Eurowings operated by Germanwings	Barcelona, Bari, Berlin–Tegel, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Dresden, Dublin, Edinburgh, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Klagenfurt, Larnaca, Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon, London–Heathrow, London–Stansted, Manchester, Marrakesh, Milan–Malpensa, Nador, Naples, Nice, Ordu–Giresun (begins 6 August 2017), Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Prague, Pristina, Rijeka, Rome–Fiumicino, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Split, Thessaloniki, Tunis, Venice, Vienna, Zagreb, Zürich Seasonal: Antalya, Athens, Bastia, Bodrum, Brindisi, Cagliari, Calvi, Casablanca, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Enfidha, Faro, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Ibiza, Izmir, Jerez de la Frontera, Kavala, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Menorca, Mykonos, Olbia, Pisa, Pula, Reykjavík–Keflávik, Rhodes, Santorini, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sylt, Tangier, Tenerife–South, Tirana, Varna (begins 18 July 2017), Verona, Zadar, Zakynthos
Eurowings operated by SunExpress Deutschland	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Havana, Mauritius, Miami (ends 15 April 2018), Montego Bay, Orlando (begins 8 July 2017, ends 14 April 2017), Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Varadero, Windhoek–Hosea Kutako (begins 12 July 2017) Seasonal: Cape Town (begins 6 November 2017), Fort Myers (begins 4 May 2018), Las Vegas, Seattle/Tacoma (begins 11 July 2017) Seasonal charter: Barbados, La Romana, Santo Domingo
Flybe operated by Stobart Air	Seasonal: London–Southend (ends 27 October 2017)
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
Iran Air	Tehran–Imam Khomeini
Lufthansa	Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Munich
Niki	Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Málaga, Malta, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife–South
Norwegian Air Shuttle operated by Norwegian Air International	Alicante, Málaga Seasonal: Gran Canaria, Tenerife–South
Nouvelair	Seasonal: Djerba, Enfidha
Onur Air	Seasonal: Antalya, Kayseri (begins 6 July 2017)
Pegasus Airlines	Ankara, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen Seasonal: Adana, Antalya, Izmir
Pobeda	Moscow–Vnukovo
Ryanair	Alicante, Barcelona, Bergamo, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bologna (begins 02 November 2017), Bristol (begins 29 October 2017), Copenhagen, Dublin, Gran Canaria, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester (begins 29 October 2017), Marrakesh (begins 30 October 2017), Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Riga, Rome–Ciampino, Seville (begins 29 October 2017), Sofia, Tenerife–South, Treviso (begins 31 October 2017), Valencia, Vilnius (begins 01 November 2017), Vitoria (begins 30 October 2017), Warsaw-Modlin Seasonal: Corfu, Faro
SkyWork Airlines	Bern
Small Planet Airlines (Germany)	Charter: Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife–South
SunExpress	Antalya, Izmir Seasonal: Ordu-Giresun
SunExpress Deutschland	Adana, Agadir, Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Fuerteventura, Gaziantep, Gazipasa, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Izmir, Kayseri, Lanzarote, Marsa Alam, Palma de Mallorca, Sharm el-Sheikh, Trabzon Seasonal: Burgas, Dalaman, Fuerteventura, Paphos, Rhodes, Varna Seasonal charter: Nador
Tailwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Antalya
TAP Portugal operated by TAP Express	Lisbon (resumes 15 July 2017)
TUI fly Deutschland	Antalya, Boa Vista, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Menorca, Sal, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Adana, Dalaman, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Nador, Rhodes, Samsun, Sundsvall, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul–Atatürk, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Wizz Air	Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Gdańsk, Katowice, Košice, Kyiv-Zhuliany, Skopje, Tuzla

Cargo

Cologne Bonn Airport is a major cargo hub in the world mainly due to its function as a hub for FedEx Express and UPS Airlines.

Airlines	Destinations
ATRAN	Moscow–Vnukovo
Cargojet	Brussels, Halifax, Hamilton
EgyptAir Cargo	Cairo
FedEx Express	Athens, Memphis, Munich, Shanghai–Pudong, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
FedEx Feeder operated by ASL Airlines Ireland	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
MNG Airlines	Istanbul–Atatürk, Leipzig/Halle, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Turkish Airlines Cargo	Istanbul–Atatürk, London–Luton
UPS Airlines	Almaty, Ancona, Barcelona, Budapest, Chicago–O'Hare, Dubai–International, East Midlands, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London–Stansted, Louisville, Madrid, Malmö, Moscow–Vnukovo, Mumbai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Philadelphia, Rome–Ciampino, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen, Singapore, Stockholm–Arlanda, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin
UPS Airlines operated by Bluebird Cargo	Cork, Edinburgh, Reykjavík–Keflávik
UPS Airlines operated by ASL Airlines Switzerland	Basel/Mulhouse, Bucharest, Cardiff, Geneva, Katowice, Ljubljana, Prague, Sofia, Timisoara, Zagreb
UPS Airlines operated by MNG Airlines	Istanbul–Atatürk
UPS Airlines operated by Star Air	Dublin, Bergamo, East Midlands, Lyon, Marseille, Munich, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Porto
West Air Sweden	Berlin–Schönefeld

Statistics

Passengers and freight

Main building of Terminal 1

Exterior of Terminal 2

Airside area at Terminal 2

Main cargo ramp

	Passengers	Movements	Freight (in t)
2000	6,291,739	138,434	423,641
2001	5,705,819	134,950	443,040
2002	5,375,126	125,307	494,331
2003	7,758,655	139,872	518,493
2004	8,332,961	136,927	605,069
2005	9,452,185	140,775	636,887
2006	9,904,236	139,096	685,563
2007	10,471,657	138,837	704,649
2008	10,342,931	128,713	578,161
2009	9,739,581	120,675	552,363
2010	9,849,779	121,011	656,120
2011	9,623,398	117,715	742,372
2012	9,280,070	125,335	751,183
2013	9,077,346	120,385	739,569
2014	9,450,493	123,241	754,356
2015	10,338,375	128,616	757,717
2016	11,910,138	136,905	786,407
Source: ADV German Airports Association

Route statistics

Busiest routes (2014)

Rank	Destination	Passengers
1	Berlin, Germany	1,321,095
2	Munich, Germany	1,003,612
3	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	839,771
4	Antalya, Turkey	525,206
5	London (all airports), United Kingdom	483,514
6	Istanbul (all airports), Turkey	480,491
7	Hamburg, Germany	399,152
8	Vienna, Austria	268,592
9	Zürich, Switzerland	220,978
10	Gran Canaria, Spain	153,417
Source: Airport Traffic Statistics

Ground transportation

Train

An ICE 3 high-speed train arriving at Cologne/Bonn Airport station

Cologne/Bonn Airport station is a 4-track railway station on a loop off the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line that connects Cologne Bonn Airport to long-distance trains at least once an hour per direction, most of them ICE services. The station lies directly across both terminals under a large glass roof and features direct connections to the basement of Terminal 2 as well as the check-in area at Terminal 1-C. The S-Bahn line S13 as well as regional train line RE8 also stop here and continue to Cologne and Bonn. Regional Express line RE6 connects the airport station with Düsseldorf Main Station, via Cologne Main Station and Neuss Main Station with an hourly frequency.

Car

The airport has its own exit (named Flughafen) on motorway A59 which links it to the city centres of Cologne and Bonn as well as the Ruhrgebiet.

Bus

Local bus lines also connect the airport with Cologne (route 161) and Bonn (route SB60). On 28 October 2015, a new coach terminal opened and is used for remote bus services to other German cities and many other European countries.

Incidents and accidents

• There have been two similar severe security breaches at the airport in March and May 2016. In March 2016, an off-duty police officer entered the airside area in Terminal 2 after bypassing the security screening. In May 2016, a tourist entered the Terminal 1 airside area without clearing security as well. In both cases, the Terminal had to be shut down until the intruder was found which severely disrupted flight operations.

See also

• Transport in Germany
• List of airports in Germany

External links

Media related to Cologne Bonn Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for EDDK at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for CGN at Aviation Safety Network