A short introduction to Roskilde Airport

Roskilde Airport is located eight kilometres south of Roskilde, between the towns of Gadstrup and Tune. The airport lies 40 kilometres from the Copenhagen city centre and 45 kilometres from Copenhagen Airport at Kastrup.

The airport is owned and operated by Copenhagen Airports A/S (CPH), a company listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Copenhagen Airport at Kastrup is its primary business area, but CPH is also involved in international activities through its investments in Newcastle International Airport in the UK and nine Mexican airports.

Roskilde Airport formally opened on 1 April 1973. The decision to build an airport near Roskilde was in part based on plans to build a new major airport on the island of Saltholm in the Øresund plus three satellite airports. These plans were later abandoned, and Roskilde Airport is the only one of the three satellite airports that materialised.

As was the case with Copenhagen Airport at Kastrup, Roskilde Airport ownership and operational responsibility were taken over by Copenhagen Airports A/S in October 1990. Before then, the airport was owned by the Danish state and operated by the Copenhagen Airports Authority, a public corporation under the Danish Ministry of Transport.

The Airport is primarily used for general aviation purposes (commercial and private flights with light aircraft) and for flight instruction and taxi and training flights. Today, the largest airline using the airport is Copenhagen Airtaxi.

The strategy is to continue developing the airport’s services aimed at these particular segments in order to exploit the airport’s unique capacity for fast and effective handling of light aircraft traffic.

Roskilde Airport is the domicile of about 30 companies and the workplace of about 300 people. The 1200-square-metre terminal building includes a café, an airport office, a meteorological service and administrative offices.

Over the past five years, the airport has handled between 30,000 and 50,000 passengers per year.

Size and runway system

Roskilde Airport has two runways: Runway 03/21 is 1,500 metres long and 32 metres wide, whilst Runway 11/29 is 1,799 metres long and 32 metres wide. The total area of the airport is 4.5 square kilometres.

IATA code

RKE

ICAO code

EKRK

Address

Copenhagen Airports A/S
Roskilde Airport
Lufthavnsvej 20
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark

Tel: +45 3231 3231
Fax: +45 3231 6277
E-mail: rkeweb@cph.dk