Two new airlines to start new routes from Copenhagen

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Two new airline companies to start new routes from Copenhagen
05-05-2006

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Copenhagen Airport has just welcomed two new airline companies, which will strengthen the airport’s position as the largest junction for airline traffic in Scandinavia. The routes go to Atlanta in the US and three German destinations respectively, writes the airport in its press release.

Delta Air Lines has opened a new route to Atlanta. This makes Copenhagen Airport the starting point for the only non-stop connection between Scandinavia and the south-eastern US. From Atlanta which is the world’s largest airport, there are connecting flights with Delta Air Lines to 153 cities in the US, Caribbean, South America and Canada.

Copenhagen Airport’s general manager Niels Boserup sees great potential in the new direct route which daily is to bring passengers from Scandinavia to the southern US in less than ten hours.

“This is an important day for the airport and its employees. However, the day has even more relevance for Copenhagen and the region which will now have a new direct connection to the important American market. 80 per cent of the US’ inhabitants can be reached in less than two hours flight from Atlanta,” says Niels Boserup.

Apart from the new intercontinental route also three low-price routes have been added to the Copenhagen Airport’s programme, as Germany’s second-largest airline company Air Berlin is to start new connections to Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf.

Air Berlin has a large service network in Europe, and besides the three non-stop routes it is offering passengers from Copenhagen a number of choices for connecting flights via Düsseldorf or Berlin to destinations in Spain, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.