Cologne Bonn Airport

Cologne Bonn Airport
Flughafen Köln/Bonn
Summary
Airport typePublic / Military
Owner/OperatorFlughafen Köln/Bonn GmbH
ServesCologne Bonn Region
LocationWahn, Porz, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Opened18 July 1957; 69 years ago (1957-07-18)
Hub for
Operating base for
Built1939; 87 years ago (1939)
Elevation AMSL302 ft (92 m)
Coordinates50°51′57″N 7°8′34″E / 50.86583°N 7.14278°E / 50.86583; 7.14278
Websitewww.koeln-bonn-airport.de
Maps
Airport map
Airport map
CGN/EDDK is located in North Rhine-Westphalia
CGN/EDDK
CGN/EDDK
Location of airport in Germany
CGN/EDDK is located in Germany
CGN/EDDK
CGN/EDDK
CGN/EDDK (Germany)
CGN/EDDK is located in Europe
CGN/EDDK
CGN/EDDK
CGN/EDDK (Europe)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 2,459 8,068 Concrete/asphalt
13L/31R 3,815 12,516 Asphalt
13R/31L 1,863 6,112 Concrete/asphalt
Statistics (2025)
Passengers10,060,452 Increase+0.5%
Aircraft movements116,281 Decrease-0.9%
Cargo (metric tons)842,377 Decrease-0.4%
Sources: Passenger Traffic, ADV,
AIP at German air traffic control.

Cologne Bonn Airport (German: Flughafen Köln/Bonn „Konrad Adenauer“) (IATA: CGN, ICAO: EDDK) is an international airport in north-western Germany. It serves the country's fourth-largest city Cologne, as well as Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. In 2024, more than 10 million passengers passed through Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN). It is the first time that passenger numbers have exceeded those in 2019 and hence marks a return to pre-pandemic levels. It is the seventh-largest passenger airport in Germany and the third-largest in terms of cargo operations. By traffic units, which combines cargo and passengers, the airport is in fifth position in Germany. As of March 2015, Cologne Bonn Airport had services to 115 passenger destinations in 35 countries. The airport is named after Cologne native Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war Chancellor of West Germany. The facility covers 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) and contains three runways.

The airport is located in the district of Porz and is surrounded by Wahner Heide, a nature reserve. The airport is centrally located in the Cologne Bonn Region 12 km (7.5 mi; 6.5 nmi) southeast of the Cologne city centre and 16 km (9.9 mi; 8.6 nmi) northeast of Bonn. Cologne Bonn Airport is one of the country's few 24-hour airports and serves as a hub for Eurowings, FedEx Express and UPS Airlines as well as a focus city for several leisure and low-cost airlines. It is also a host of a training centre for the German (DLR) and European (EAC) astronaut programmes, part of the European Space Agency. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) formerly used an Airbus A300 ZERO-G aircraft at Cologne/Bonn Airport to simulate zero gravity conditions for research. This aircraft, also known as the "Zero G", is no longer used for research flights but has been stationed at the airport since 2015 and is now an interactive museum exhibit. It can be found outside of the airport, near close to Terminal 2.

Cologne Bonn airport is only 49 km (30 mi; 26 nmi) south of larger Düsseldorf Airport, the main airport of the Rhine-Ruhr region, and also competes with Frankfurt Airport, Germany's largest international airport, which can be reached from Cologne within 47 minutes by the Intercity Express high-speed train. The airport is jointly owned by the City of Cologne (31.12%), the Federal Republic of Germany (30.94%), the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (30.94%), the City of Bonn (6.06%) and two counties: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (0.59%) and Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (0.35%).

History

20th century

The airport's sound logo

In 1938, the first airfield was built on site for the German Luftwaffe. After World War II the British military took over and expanded the airport (as RAF Wahn - B-119). A 1,866 m runway was built in this period.

The following squadrons used RAF Wahn: 2 Squadron between 28 June 1948 and 15 September 1949 then again between 1 July 1953 and 28 October 1955, 4 Squadron between 13 November 1947 and 1 March 1948 then the squadron alternating with RAF Lubeck until 19 September 1949, 11 Squadron between 15 September 1948 and 17 September 1949, 14 Squadron between 1 April 1946 and 16 September 1949, 17 Squadron between 1 June 1956 and 3 April 1957, 21 Squadron between 3 and 26 September 1946, 68 Squadron between 1 January 1952 and 22 July 1957, 69 Squadron between 31 March 1946 and 7 November 1947, 87 Squadron between 1 January 1952 and 2 July 1957, 98 Squadron between 15 March 1946 and 19 September 1949, 107 Squadron between 3 September 1946 and 15 September 1948, 128 Squadron between 11 and 31 March 1946, 180 Squadron between 8 and 31 March 1946 & 305 Squadron between 11 March and 15 October 1946.

In 1950 the airport was opened for civilian air traffic to serve both Cologne and West Germany's then new capital, Bonn, superseding the former Cologne Butzweilerhof Airport.

The first scheduled international route was London-Cologne/Bonn-Berlin operated by BEA, inaugurated on 1 January 1951. A second and third runway was opened in 1954 and 1961 subsequently. That same year Lufthansa inaugurated the first scheduled intercontinental service from Cologne/Bonn to New York City.

The new passenger terminal, which still exists today as Terminal 1, was inaugurated in 1970. The airport's passenger and freight facilities have been extended substantially during the 1970s. In 1978, the airport handled more than 2 million passengers for the first time.

Cologne Bonn Airport was chosen by United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1986 as the location for their European hub. TNT Express followed in 1988.

By 1990, the airport handled three million passengers per year. In the mid-1990s the airport started another major expansion program. Several new parking lots, a new control tower and a second terminal were built, and in 2004 a new long-distance railway station connecting the airport with InterCityExpress trains was opened.

Cultural significance

The airport's design and atmosphere have also influenced popular culture. In 1977, musician Brian Eno was inspired by the architecture and ambiance of Cologne Bonn Airport while waiting for a flight. He later described it as "a very beautiful building [...] The light was beautiful, everything was beautiful, except they were playing awful music." This experience led him to create his groundbreaking 1978 ambient music album "Music for Airports" which was designed to "induce calm and a space to think" in airport environments. Eno sought to create background music that, unlike the "lightweight" music typically played in such spaces, would complement the architectural aesthetics of modern airports like Cologne Bonn.

Developments since the 2000s

Coinciding with the start of several low-cost airlines in Germany, Cologne/Bonn opened new capacities. This enabled the airport to make competitive offers to the airlines. Consequently, Germanwings and TUIfly started operations from Cologne/Bonn as their hub in the fall of 2002. As a result, the number of passengers in 2003 rose by 43% compared to 2002. These airlines were joined by easyJet in late 2003 and Wizz Air in June 2006.

Also, the Canadian Forces began to use the airport as a staging area to move troops and supplies in support of humanitarian missions and possible anti-terrorism roles.

In 2006, the Brazilian airline BRA provided a twice a week connection to Rio de Janeiro–Galeão, which was discontinued in April 2007 due to problems with the airline. Also in 2006, a daily transatlantic flight to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport by Continental Airlines was established, operating with a Boeing 757-200. This route was discontinued on 4 September 2008 due to a reduction in passenger numbers.

Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Norwegian Air Shuttle began service to Cologne/Bonn in May 2012. In April 2014, Ryanair announced the opening of their fifth German base at Cologne/Bonn Airport for October 2014. In December 2014, Lufthansa announced it would base Eurowings' new long-haul operations at Cologne Bonn Airport with flights to Florida, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean to start by the end of 2015. Meanwhile, Condor cancelled their service to Varadero after only one season due to the expected competition. In February 2018, Eurowings announced the relocation of all long-haul operations from Cologne consisting of four Airbus A330 aircraft to Düsseldorf Airport by late October 2018 leaving the airport without any long-haul passenger routes again. In 2024, Wizz Air announced it would terminate all routes from Cologne/Bonn, which it had served for ten years.

Facilities

Terminals 1 (right) and 2 (left) with the airport railway station visible under its glass roof.
Terminal 2 interior

Cologne Bonn Airport has two passenger terminals which are located directly beside each other.

Terminal 1

The older Terminal 1 is a 1970s building that sports large surfaces of bare concrete in its design. It features a u-shaped main building with shops, restaurants, check-in and service facilities and a visitors deck on its roof as well as the star-shaped piers B and C with five aircraft stands each plus a central airside hall between them added in 2004 with joint security-check facilities, more shops and restaurants as well as three additional stands. All ten stands at both piers feature jet bridges while the other three use walk-boarding. Also several bus-boarding stands are available at the apron. Terminal 1 is used by Eurowings, which occupy most of the landside check-in facilities, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines. Terminal 1 features its own direct connection to the railway station.

Terminal 2

Construction of Terminal 2 began in June 1997, and operations at the terminal commenced on 21 June 2000. It is located to the north of Terminal 1. Both feature separate check-in facilities but are connected through a landside walkway. Terminal 2 is a modern-style rectangular building made out of glass and steel which is equipped with eight stands with jet bridges as well as several stands for bus-boarding. It is used by several airlines such as Ryanair. Terminal 2 is also directly connected to the airports' railway station via the basement level. The terminal hosts an interdenominational prayer room on its base level.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Cologne Bonn Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Air Arabia Maroc Nador, Tangier
Air Cairo Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Marsa Alam
Air Mediterranean Athens
Air Serbia Niš
AJet Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Seasonal: Ankara, Sivas
Austrian Airlines Vienna (ends 11 January 2027)
British Airways Seasonal: London-Heathrow (begins 23 November 2026)
Condor Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Corendon Airlines Antalya, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Istanbul, (begins 1 July 2027), Marsa Alam (begins 5 November 2026), Sharm el Sheikh, Tenerife–South, Zonguldak
Seasonal: Balıkesir, Burgas (begins 9 May 2027), Adana/Mersin, Ankara, Fuerteventura, Gazipaşa, Izmir, Rhodes, Varna (begins 15 May 2027)
Eurowings Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Catania, Chișinău, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Jeddah, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa, Munich, Nador, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Pristina, Rome–Fiumicino, Sarajevo, Split, Tbilisi, Thessaloniki, Tunis, Vienna, Zagreb, Zürich
Seasonal: Bari, Bastia, Belgrade, Brindisi, Burgas, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Edinburgh, Erbil, Faro, Fez, Fuerteventura, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kavala, Kayseri, Klagenfurt, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Menorca, Monastir, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Palermo, Pisa, Prague, Pula, Rhodes, Rijeka, Santorini, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tangier, Tenerife–South, Tirana, Valencia, Varna, Venice, Verona, Yerevan, Zadar
Freebird Airlines Antalya
GP Aviation Pristina
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol (begins 27 November 2026), Leeds/Bradford, London–Gatwick (begins 26 November 2026), Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
LEAV Aviation Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor
Seasonal: Antalya, Heraklion, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
Lufthansa Munich
Lufthansa City Airlines Munich
Nesma Airlines Hurghada
Nile Air Cairo
Pegasus Airlines Ankara, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Kayseri
Seasonal: Adana/Mersin, Antalya, Bodrum, Elazığ, Izmir
Ryanair Agadir, Alicante, Barcelona, Bergamo, Bologna, Dublin, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Kaunas, Lisbon, London–Stansted, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marrakesh, Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Porto, Riga, Rome, Seville, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tenerife–South, Tirana, Valencia, Vienna
Seasonal: Athens, Corfu, Knock, Rimini, Zadar
SunExpress Antalya, Izmir
Seasonal: Adana/Mersin, Ankara, Bodrum, Dalaman, Elazığ, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Wizz AirBucharest–Otopeni, Chisinau, Podgorica, Skopje, Tirana, Tuzla (ends 10 January 2027)

Cargo

Cologne Bonn Airport is a hub for FedEx Express and UPS Airlines, which operates 140 flights per week at the airport alone.

AirlinesDestinations
Cargojet Hamilton (ON), St. John's
Coyne Airways Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London–Heathrow, Tbilisi, Yerevan
Egyptair Cargo Cairo
FedEx Express Bengaluru, Guangzhou, Memphis, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv
MNG Airlines Istanbul, New York–JFK
Turkish Cargo Istanbul
UPS Airlines Ancona, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Bengaluru, Bergamo, Billund, Budapest, Bucharest–Otopeni, Delhi, Dubai–International, Dublin, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Geneva, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Katowice, Larnaca, London–Stansted, Louisville, Lyon, Madrid, Malmö, Marseille, Mumbai, Munich, Newark, Naples, Oslo, Ostrava, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Philadelphia, Porto, Prague, Rome–Ciampino, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sofia, Tel Aviv, Timișoara, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław

Military use

The German Air Force's Executive Transport Wing is based on the south-western side of the airport, adjacent to the Wahn Air Force Barracks. The military part of the airport is also used by the Canadian Forces as an operational support hub.

Statistics

Direct flight destinations from Cologne Bonn Airport (April 2026)
Aerial view of the airport
Terminal 1 (on the left) and the connecting hall between both main piers still under construction and Terminal 2 (on the right)
PassengersMovementsFreight (in t)
2000 6,291,739138,434423,641
2001 Decrease 5,705,819Decrease 134,950Increase 443,040
2002 Decrease 5,375,126Decrease 125,307Increase 494,331
2003 Increase 7,758,655Increase 139,872Increase 518,493
2004 Increase 8,332,961Decrease 136,927Increase 605,069
2005 Increase 9,452,185Increase 140,775Increase 636,887
2006 Increase 9,904,236Decrease 139,096Increase 685,563
2007 Increase 10,471,657Decrease 138,837Increase 704,649
2008 Decrease 10,342,931Decrease 128,713Decrease 578,161
2009 Decrease 9,739,581Decrease 120,675Decrease 552,363
2010 Increase 9,849,779Increase 121,011Increase 656,120
2011 Decrease 9,623,398Decrease 117,715Increase 742,372
2012 Decrease 9,280,070Increase 125,335Increase 751,183
2013 Decrease 9,077,346Decrease 120,385Decrease 739,569
2014 Increase 9,450,493Increase 123,241Increase 754,356
2015 Increase 10,338,375Increase 128,616Increase 757,717
2016 Increase 11,910,138Increase 136,905Increase 786,407
2017 Increase 12,384,223Increase 141,338Increase 838,526
2018 Increase 12,945,341Increase 144,204Increase 859,396
2019 Decrease 12,368,519Decrease 142,486Decrease 814,573
2020 Decrease 3,081,159Decrease 78,867Increase 863,410
2021 Increase 4,253,568Increase 79,214Increase 985,754
2022 Increase 8,756,712Increase 120,975Decrease 971,442
2023 Increase 9,763,127Decrease 118,191Decrease 871,537
2024 Increase 10,012,447Decrease 117,345Decrease 845,629
2025 Increase 10,044,359Decrease 116,028Decrease 842,377
Source: ADV German Airports Association

Ground transportation

Train

The platforms at Cologne/Bonn Airport station

Cologne/Bonn Airport station is a four-track railway station on a loop off the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line that connects Cologne Bonn Airport to long-distance trains at least once an hour per direction, most of them ICE services. The station lies directly across both terminals under a large glass roof and features direct connections to the basement of Terminal 2 as well as the check-in area at Terminal 1-C. The S-Bahn line S 19 to Düren and regional train line RE 6 to Minden (Westfalen) connects the airport station with via Cologne Main Station. RB 27 between Mönchengladbach and Koblenz calls at the airport station as well.

Car

The airport has its own exit (named Flughafen) on motorway A59 which links it to the city centres of Cologne and Bonn as well as the Ruhrgebiet.

Bus

Local bus lines also connect the airport with Cologne (route 161) and Bonn (route SB60). On 28 October 2015, a new coach terminal opened and is used for remote bus services to other German cities and many other European countries.

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

Citations

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