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Routes
“Our hope for 2014 is
growth – and
growth,” enthuses
Ole Wieth
Christensen,
Director Airline
Sales and Route Development,
Copenhagen Airport. “We broke
last year’s passenger record
with 24.1 million passengers in
2013, and expect to do the same
in 2014.”
Today, Copenhagen has over
60 airlines operating on 156
routes, including 26 long-haul
destinations. It is Northern
Europe’s leading Star Alliance
hub, with SAS its biggest
customer offering 44% of traffic.
Second is Norwegian with 16%,
followed by easyJet with 6%.
“We are starting the year with
two new direct long-haul routes
to Los Angeles and JFK, served
by fast growing Norwegian,”
says Christensen. “But we want
more. We have our eyes fixed on
Asia, as Copenhagen is one of
the first touch points in Europe,
when you fly in.”
Routes win
Growth is critical for an airport
with plans to grow to 40 million
annual passengers. “For
Copenhagen route development
is vital. So it was with pride that
we were named the world’s best
at route development among
airports with 20 to 50 million
passengers at World Routes in
Las Vegas — contesting against
airports like Seoul Incheon and
Munich. That was a great day
and very late night!”
Ready
to expand to 40m
Growing
international LCC presence
The aspirations for
2014 at Brisbane
Airport are clear. “We
hope to increase
international LCC
capacity by growing
Jetstar International’s presence
at Brisbane, as well as attracting
other LCCs,” says the airport’s
Aviation Business Development
Manager Australasia, Maaike
van der Windt. To help facilitate
this goal, Brisbane is planning to
construct additional non-
aerobridge gates aimed at
carriers who will accept a
reduced level of service for their
passengers, who will either be
bussed to additional gates or
walk out from the departures
concourse.
Domestically, Brisbane’s LCC
presence was boosted last
year when Tigerair Australia
announced it was to establish
a two-aircraft base at the
airport. Flights to Adelaide
start on 11 March — while some
of the marketing team is here
in Kuching! The base launch
will also see the addition of
another two new routes, namely
to Cairns and Darwin (both 15
April), as well as frequency
growth to Sydney and
Melbourne.
No excess baggage
During Routes Asia, the airport
will hold over 20 meetings with
airlines, other airports and
industry suppliers, with each
airline receiving customised
information. However, van der
Windt has been considerate
towards airline delegate’s
potential for excess baggage.
“We have no giveaways – we
don’t want to add to the weight
of delegates’ suitcases!!”
The Tigerair
Australia base
announcement in
December last year
committed the LCC
to make Brisbane
Airport its third
Australian base
(after Melbourne
and Sydney). The
news was welcomed
by Julieanne Alroe,
the airport’s CEO
and announced by
the airline’s CEO Rob
Sharp.
CopenhagenAirport
has just launched the ‘Expanding CPH’ plan on how it
will grow to handle 40million passengers a year. Unlike many of its European
competitors it is not planning to build a grand new, separate terminal — its
expansion allows it to keep the airport’s ‘under one roof’ layout.
