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Billund Airport (Danish: Billund Lufthavn) (IATA: BLL, ICAO: EKBI) is an airport in Denmark. Located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeast[2] of Billund, it serves as one of the country's busiest air cargo centres, as well as a charter airline destination. Most major European airports are connected to Billund via multiple daily scheduled flights^{[citation needed]}. Nearby Legoland Billund park is the largest tourist attraction in Denmark outside Copenhagen.

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Billund Airport Billund Lufthavn
IATA: BLL ICAO: EKBI
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Billund Lufthavn A/S
Serves	Southern Denmark
Location	Billund Municipality, Denmark
Opened	1 November 1964 (1964-11-01)
Hub for	Sun-Air of Scandinavia (on behalf of British Airways)
Focus city for	Ryanair[1]
Elevation AMSL	247 ft / 75 m
Coordinates	55°44′25″N 009°09′07″E
Website	bll.dk
Map
BLL Location in Denmark
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 3,100 10,172 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 3,739,267 6.6%
Source: AIP[2]

History

Billund Airport had its beginning in 1961 when the son of the founder of the Lego Group, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, established a private 800-meter long runway and hangar north of his factory in Billund. With Christiansen as a key driver, more of the neighbouring municipalities were included in the group of owners, and it was planned that the airport should be expanded to a regular public airport.^{[citation needed]}

The construction of the new airport was carried out during 1964 and the airport opened on 1 November, with one runway at 1660 meters in length and 45 meters width, a small platform where aircraft could be served, and a control tower to the controller. Hans Erik Christensen, the former chief pilot at Lego, became director, and the passengers were handled in Lego's hangar until the first terminal building was opened in the spring of 1966.^{[citation needed]} The airport was continuously expanded in the following years, with new facilities, terminal buildings, lounge, tax-free area, and hangars where LC Johansen's studio often participated as an architect (today called Johannsen Architects), while other work was carried out by the airport's own studio.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, they had an architectural competition for a new 430,000 ft² (40,000 m²) passenger terminal, designed to serve 3.5 million passengers a year, north of the original airport. KHR Architects won the assignment and completed the construction in co-operation with COWI, and at the end of May 2002 the new passenger terminal was put to use, as the first phase of the future expansion, which is scheduled to take place north of the start and runway, while air cargo services, business and private aviation will continue to be served from the existing buildings south of the runway.^{[citation needed]} In connection with this expansion, the largest since the beginning of the airport, it was with effect from 1 January 1997 turned into a joint-stock company, Billund Airport A/S, with the former members Vejle County and municipalities Vejle, Kolding, Grindsted, Billund, and Give as shareholders.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, the entire runway was renovated and paved, and a new taxiway was built, nicknamed "Mike". This major task only took 14 hours.^{[citation needed]} The runway was closed overnight between the hours 23:00 and 06:00. This did not prevent a Boeing 737-800 from Ryanair landing at one end of the runway, while they worked at the other end. The same year was also a record year for the airport. 2,546,856 passengers passed through the terminals, an increase of 12.7 percent compared with 2007.^{[citation needed]}

From mid-2009, the airport was served by nine airlines flying regular flight service, of which KLM had the busiest route with over 200,000 annual passengers to Amsterdam Schiphol. In 2011, Ryanair announced that Billund Airport with effect from 25 March 2012 would be the base for two Boeing 737 aircraft. At the same time Ryanair published five new routes, so that, from the summer of 2012, they would fly to 19 destinations.^{[citation needed]}

From 1 January 2007 the owners are: Vejle Municipality (34.3%), Kolding Municipality (25.9%), Billund Municipality (15%), Horsens Municipality (10.7%), Fredericia Municipality (6.9%), Hedensted Municipality (6.1%), Brande Municipality (1.0%) and Skanderborg Municipality (0.1%).

In 2014, Lego produced a special Lego Architecture kit, which could only be bought in the departure hall of the airport.^{[citation needed]}

A new terminal was slated to open in the fall of 2019.[3] It cost more than 100 million Danish kroner.

Capabilities

The airport handles an average of more than three million passengers a year, and millions of pounds of cargo. The airport's main runway can handle airliners as large as the Boeing 747, although most passengers arrive on smaller aeroplanes, such as ATR-72s, Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s. Boeing 747 activity at this airport is almost exclusively limited to cargo flights.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Billund:[4]

Airlines	Destinations
Air France Hop	Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Greenland	Kangerlussuaq (begins 29 March 2023)[5]
airBaltic	Riga
Airseven[6]	Seasonal charter: Antalya, Chania, Preveza/Lefkada, Rhodes, Thessaloniki
Atlantic Airways	Vágar Seasonal charter: Fuerteventura,[7] Innsbruck[8]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna (begins 4 April 2023)[9]
British Airways	London–City,[10] London–Heathrow, Manchester[11]
Bulgaria Air	Seasonal charter: Burgas[12]
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Bodrum,[13] Chania,[14] Gazipaşa,[13] Heraklion,[14] Kos,[14] Palma de Mallorca,[13] Rhodes[14]
DAT	Seasonal: Bornholm
Eurowings	Seasonal charter: Salzburg (begins 10 January 2023)[15]
Freebird Airlines	Seasonal charter: Bodrum[citation needed]
Icelandair	Seasonal: Reykjavik–Keflavík
Jet Time	Seasonal charter: Chania[citation needed]
KLM	Amsterdam
LOT Polish Airlines	Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Munich[16]
Norwegian Air Shuttle[17]	Oslo Seasonal: Bergen[18]
Novair[7]	Seasonal charter: Chania, Gran Canaria,[19] Hurghada, Rhodes
Pegasus Airlines	Seasonal: Antalya
Ryanair	Alicante, Barcelona,[20] Bergamo, Birmingham,[21] Bologna,[20] Budapest, Charleroi,[22] Dublin, Edinburgh, Gdańsk,[23] Gothenburg,[22] Kraków,[23] London–Stansted, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Memmingen,[22] Poznań, Prague, Rome–Ciampino,[24] Seville,[22] Sibiu,[22] Tallinn,[22] Treviso,[25] Vienna, Vilnius,[26] Wrocław[22] Seasonal: Bari,[27] Ibiza,[28] Madrid,[28] Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto,[28] Trapani,[27] Turin, Valencia (begins 3 May 2023)[29]
Scandinavian Airlines	Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Fuerteventura,[7] Gran Canaria,[7] Tenerife–South[7]
SkyAlps	Seasonal: Bolzano (begins 7 January 2023)[30]
Sunclass Airlines[31]	Seasonal charter: Antalya, Chania, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Tenerife–South
SunExpress	Seasonal: Antalya
Swiss International Air Lines	Seasonal: Zurich[32]
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul Seasonal: Gazipaşa[20]
Vueling	Barcelona, Gran Canaria[33] Seasonal: Málaga,[20] Palma de Mallorca, Paris–Orly, [34] Tenerife–South[35]
Widerøe	Bergen
Wizz Air	Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova (begins 18 December 2022),[36] Gdańsk, Iași, Kraków, Skopje, Tuzla, Vilnius

Statistics

Ground transport

The road distance is to Billund 3 kilometres (2 mi), to Vejle 28 kilometres (17 mi), to Kolding 41 kilometres (25 mi), to Esbjerg 61 kilometres (38 mi) and to Aarhus 98 kilometres (61 mi). There are airport buses to Horsens, Skanderborg and Aarhus. Eight additional bus services operate from the airport. There are six parking zones named after countries of the world, USA, Australia, Kenya, Spain, Egypt and Greenland. Three of the zones are connected by a shuttle bus, the other three being within walking distance.

See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

References

• AIP Denmark: Billund – EKBI
• VFR Flight Guide Denmark: Billund – EKBI

External links

Media related to Billund Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Current weather for EKBI at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for BLL at Aviation Safety Network

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Billund

Der Flughafen Billund (IATA: BLL, ICAO: EKBI), offiziell Billund Lufthavn, Marketing-Name Billund Airport - verden direkte liegt rund zwei Kilometer nordöstlich von Billund in der Mitte Jütlands. Er ist mit 3,5 Mio. Fluggästen im Jahr 2018 der zweitgrößte Flughafen in Dänemark.[2]

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- [en] Billund Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Billund

El Aeropuerto de Billund (en danés, Billund Lufthavn) (IATA: BLL, OACI: EKBI), situado en la ciudad del mismo nombre en Dinamarca, es uno de los aeropuertos de carga más importante del país, así como de destino para aerolíneas chárter y compañías regulares.

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[fr] Aéroport de Billund

L’aéroport de Billund (code IATA : BLL • code OACI : EKBI) est le deuxième plus grand aéroport du Danemark derrière l'aéroport de Copenhague. Il est situé en périphérie de Billund.

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[it] Aeroporto di Billund

L'aeroporto di Billund (IATA: BLL, ICAO: EKBI) si trova a nord-est della cittadina di Billund in Danimarca. È uno degli aeroporti cargo più importanti del paese, ed opera anche voli charter e voli di linea. Nelle vicinanze dell'aeroporto si trova anche il parco di divertimenti Legoland Billund.

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[ru] Биллунн (аэропорт)

Аэропорт Биллунн (дат. Billund Lufthavn; ИАТА: BLL, ИКАО: EKBI) — гражданский аэропорт в Дании, расположенный в 1,9 км к северо-востоку от города Биллунн в регионе Южная Дания. Единственный международный аэропорт в Южной Дании, расположенный в окрестностях парка развлечений Леголанд.

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