Facts & figures
General
- P.O. Box
- Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH
Postfach 98 01 20
51129 Köln - Address
- Heinrich-Steinmann-Str. 12
51147 Köln - Date of foundation
- 8 December 1950
- Area of the airport site
- 1,000 hectares
- 3-runway system
- intercontinental runway (14 L/32 R) = 3,815 metres
parallel takeoff and landing runways (14 R/32 L) = 1,863 metres
crosswind runway (06/24) = 2,459 metres - Jobs
- Cologne Bonn Airport as a whole: about 14,804 people in 115 companies and public authorities. Flughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH (Cologne/Bonn operating company): 1,856 employees (2017)
Technical information
- IATA-Code
- CGN
- ICAO-Code
- EDDK
- ICAO-classification
- 4 E
- Geographical position
- 50° 52' 02" N latitude
07° 08' 37" E longitude
77 m above NN (airport reference point)
The airport is located 14.8 km south-east of the centre of Cologne - Operating hours
- 24 hours
- Terminals
- 2 Terminals with a capacity of 14 million passengers per year
- Terminal 1
- opened in 1970, Architect: Prof. Scheider von Esleben, extension "Starwalk" in 2004; € 25 million investment, Architect: Helmut Jahn
- Terminal 2
- opened in 2000, € 195 million investment, including the luggage sorting system, Architect: Helmut Jahn (additional € 43 million invesment for Car Park 2)
- Aprons
- A total of 9:
5 aprons for pax (21 ha)
4 aprons for cargo (29 ha) - Apron positions
- A total of 107:
21 positions close to terminals
86 remote positions - Passenger Bridges
- A total of 17:
Terminal 1: 9 bridges
Terminal 2: 8 bridges - Gates
- A total of 55 Gates:
Terminal 1: 35 Gates
Terminal 2: 20 Gates - Security lanes
- 16
- Check-In desk
- A total of 86 desks:
Terminal 1: 46 Check-In desks
Terminal 2: 40 Check-In desks - Non-Aviation
- Almost 9,449 m2 non-aviation floor space in the terminals
Medical Centre 240 m2
A total of 52 shops and restaurants:
32 shops
20 restaurants/cafés - Cargo centre
- Ten cargo terminals, high-bay warehouse for aircraft pallets
- Area of operation
- approx. 1,000 hectares
- Tower
- Monitors all flight operations by the DFS (German Air Traffic Control), officially opened in 1994, height: 56 m, modern radar systems, fully-glazed octagonal cabin
- Fire servie
- The airport fire service is, in conformity with ICAO regulations, equipped with all necessary vehicles and equipment and is operational 24 hours a day.
- Other facilities
- Hangar 1 (70 x 30 m, entrance height 5.5 m)
Hangar 2 (100 x 40 m, entrance height 12.5 m)
Hangar 3 (100 x 65 m, entrance height 14.5 m)
Hangar 6 (100 x 40 m, entrance height 9.0 m)
fuel depots, in-flight catering companies - Power supply
- The airport operating company as a network operator
Takeoff and landing runways
- NW-SO 14L/32R
- 3815 m x 60 m
Two-side approach path with instrument landing system (ILS), high-performance approach lighting system, runway centre-line and side lights - Arrival 32 R
- ICAO category III b with Approach Flashlighting System and runway touchdown zone lighting, PAPI (Precision Approach Path Indicator)
- Arrival 14L
- ICAO category III a, PAPI
- SW-NO 06/24
- 2459 m x 45 m
ICAO category III a, PAPI
High-performance approach lighting system, runway centre-line and side lights - Arrival 24
- Precision approach path according to ICAO category I with ILS and Approach Flashlighting System, PAPI
- Arrival 06
- Instrument approach path according to the ICAO standard (without ILS), PAPI
- NW-SO 14R/32L
- 1863 m x 45 m
High-performance approach lights, runway centre-line and side lights, instrument approach path according to the ICAO standard (without ILS), PAPI - Additional landing aids
- 360° radar (ASR-8), non-directional broadcasting (NDB), VHF directional radio broadcasting with distance measuring unit (VOR-DME)
Unlike many other airports that are already facing supply shortfalls, Cologne Bonn Airport has the largest reserves of takeoff and landing capacities in Germany.
This means that airlines have a free choice of slots and can optimise their flight schedules.
The modern takeoff and landing runway system of Cologne Bonn Airport, with its longest runway of 3,815 m (Cat III A), allows non-stop flights of fully loaded and fully fuelled jets to any destination in the world.
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