10 COPENHAGEN AIRPORT (CPH) IN DENMARK
Copenhagen Airport (CPH) opens the list of the ten oldest airports in Europe. Located on the island of Amager, approximately eight kilometres (five miles) away from Copenhagen in Denmark, it was inaugurated in 1925. The airport was originally called Kastrup Airport as it is in the small town of Kastrup.
The area of CPH airport covers up to 11.8 square kilometres (around 4.6 square miles) and this makes it the second largest airport in the Nordic countries. Featuring the dual parallel runway system, two passenger terminals and a total of 108 jet bridges and remote parking stands, CPH airport currently supports operations of 54 passenger and four cargo airlines and is able to serve both narrow and wide-body jets.
9 GENEVA AIRPORT (GVA) IN SWITZERLAND
Locals call it ‘Cointrin Airport’ but officially the airport, which is located four kilometres (2.5 miles) away from Geneve and can be accessed from both sides of the Swiss-French border, is known as Geneva Airport (GVA). The unique location of this airport makes Geneva a European Union freight hub even though Switzerland is not a member of the EU. GVA airport started operations in 1919 when the Grand Council of Geneva gave a green light for a small airfield project at Meyrin, a municipality of the Canton of Geneve.
Initially, the airfield had an area of 54 hectares (130 acres) and was mainly serving scarce passenger traffic on German flag carrier’s Lufthansa (LHAB) (LHA) flights, which used to connect Berlin and Barcelona with a stop in Geneve. However, 11 years after the official launch, in 1930 some six airlines began their services to the airport.
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