Copenhagen Airport, International airport in Tårnby Municipality, Denmark
Copenhagen Airport is an international airport in Tårnby Municipality south of the Danish capital. The three terminals link together through covered walkways and offer waiting halls with rows of seats, shops, restaurants and several zones for departures and arrivals on different levels.
The facility opened in April 1925 and initially served only small propeller planes with a grass runway. After the Second World War authorities expanded the site and added paved runways to handle jet aircraft, which came to dominate traffic from the 1960s onward.
The name comes from Copenhagen even though the facility sits entirely within Tårnby borders. Passengers here switch between Danish and Swedish trains, as many travelers commute daily across the Øresund strait between both countries back and forth.
Travelers find trains at terminal three, while buses and taxis wait outside all entrances. Those heading to Sweden take the same train toward Malmö, which crosses the bridge without changing and reaches its destination in roughly twenty minutes.
The bridge to the arrivals hall carries a viewing platform overlooking the runways, where travelers between flights can watch planes take off and land. Some passengers cross four countries in a single day when traveling from Iceland through Denmark and Sweden onward to continental Europe.
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