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Business still taking off at Copenhagen Airport

In what is becoming a bit routine, the Copenhagen Airport set a passenger record once again September.

Published: 10 October 2014 12:40 CEST
Business still taking off at Copenhagen Airport
Photo: Karl Baron/Flickr
The 2,339,515 passengers who used the airport last month represented the highest ever number of September travellers ever and a 6.4 percent increase over September 2013.
 
It also marked the 18th month in a row that the airport set a monthly passenger record. 
 
“If we look to our main competitors, the other European hub airports, we remain in a very comfortable position in terms of growth this year. Our stable traffic growth throughout the summer programme is part of the reason that we have been able to secure one of the highest growth rates in Europe,” Thomas Woldbye, the CEO of Copenhagen Airport, said in a statement. 
 
The airport reported that international traffic was up 6.7 percent in September and domestic traffic was up 3.4 percent. Transfer traffic increased by a full 14.5 percent. 
 
“The major part of the intercontinental traffic out of our region still departs from Copenhagen, and the solid transfer growth therefore strengthens our hub,” Woldbye said.
 
Through the first nine months of 2014, over 19.7 million passengers have travelled through Copenhagen Airport, a 7.1 percent jump over the same period last year. 
 
In June 2014, Copenhagen Airport had its busiest month ever but that record was toppled the very next month when 2.6 million passengers used the airport in July. 

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Denmark to make face masks mandatory at airports

Denmark is to require face masks at Danish airports from June 15, the first time the much-debated measure has been imposed on the general public in the country.

Published: 4 June 2020 19:15 CEST
Denmark to make face masks mandatory at airports
A traveller wears a face mask in Copenhagen airport. Photo: Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix
The requirement is part of a new set of infection guidelines for air passengers in Denmark agreed between the aviation trade body Dansk Luftfart, the country's transport and business ministries, and its health and transport agencies. 
 
“We are very pleased that there is now agreement on simple and pragmatic rules that can create a safe journey for passengers”, Michael Svane, director of Dansk Luftfart, said in a statement. 
 
The Danish Health Authority does not currently advise the general public to wear face masks in public, arguing that the benefits are unproven, and that it might encourage people not to follow social distance guidelines. 
 
“People who wear face masks might take the rules less seriously and, for example, go out if they have symptoms, or be less likely to keep their distance,” it warns. 
 
 
In requiring face masks, Denmark is following the guidelines of the European Aviation Safety Agency. 
 
 
Svane told Ritzau that the masks meant that “we can avoid having restrictions in cabins”, such as leaving an empty seat between each passenger. 
 
Denmark's Transport Minister Benny Engelbrecht told Ritzau that the new guidelines would make it easier to restart flights in and out of Denmark. 
 
“It can ensure that aviation can get started nice and smoothly,” he said. “Business travellers in particular need to be able to travel, and to the extent that you travel to airports outside Denmark, it is most appropriate to follow the same guidelines.” 
 
Svane estimated that only 40 percent of the usual flights in and out of Denmark would be back running by the end of 2020, with flying not returning to normal levels before 2022.  
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