The Copenhagen Airport serves as the main international airport in Copenhagen, Denmark and also the Oresund region. The Oresund region is located on an island known as Amager, which is about 8 km South of Copenhagen’s city center and about 24 km west of the city known as Malmo, which is situated on the other far side of the Oresund region bridge. The airport is found in the Tanby municipality and a small portion of it in the neighboring Dragor municipality. It is one of the oldest international airports in the whole of Europe and is in fact the largest airport in all the Nordic countries.
The airport handles at least 60 scheduled airlines and serves almost 60,000 passengers each day. In 2009, the airport served close to 19.7 million people and this fact makes it the most busy airport in the Nordic region and also having a maximum loading capacity of 83 loading per hour with room for about 108 planes. A good number of the passengers who use the Copenhagen Airport are international as compared to the ones who use the other Scandinavian airports. The percentage of domestic flights in the airport is less than 10% of all the annual flights and this is another fact that makes it the biggest in the region.
The Copenhagen Airport is owned by Kobenhavns Lufthavne and it was originally known as the Kastrup Airport because it is located in a small town called Kastrup, which is now part of the Tarnby municipality. Many of the locals still call the airport Kastrup because the town is still called by the same name. In January 26th 1947,a flight crashed immediately after taking off from Copenhagen Airport, which killed 22 people on board including the then prince of Sweden known as Prince Gustaf Adolf.