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Roskilde Airport Københavns Lufthavn, Roskilde Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Copenhagen Airports A/S | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Copenhagen | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Roskilde | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 146 ft / 45 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°35′08″N 12°07′53″E / 55.58556°N 12.13139°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | https://www.rke.dk/ | ||||||||||||||
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  RKE Location of airport in Denmark | |||||||||||||||
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Roskilde Airport (IATA: RKE, ICAO: EKRK), officially known as Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn, Roskilde, pronounced [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwns ˈlɔftˌhɑwˀn ˈʁʌskilə]), is located 4 nautical miles (7 km) southeast of Roskilde near the town Tune. It was opened in 1973 as the first of three planned relief airports around Copenhagen. These plans were shelved shortly after, and the two other relief airports never made it past the planning stage. The airport is owned and operated by Københavns Lufthavne A/S (Copenhagen Airports) which also operates Copenhagen's major airport at Kastrup. The airport had 25,053 passengers in 2003. The airport is fully equipped, but most flights from this airport are taxi-flights, small-plane regular flights to minor domestic islands or business jets.
It was once discussed to move all charter flights from Copenhagen Airport to this airport, but then the European aviation market changed as national airliners were allowed to be challenged by privately owned ones (1990s). The former charter airline companies in Europe then more or less had to either become regular challengers or vanish from the market. Hence, no flights with large aircraft have been moved to the airport. The runway is too short for fully loaded jet airliners such as the Boeing 737.