Billund Airport

Billund Airport (Billund Lufthavn) is located in central Jutland (Jylland), and it is Denmark’s second busiest airport. The airport mainly deals with travellers to European destinations and travellers to Copenhagen. The airport also has it’s fair share of low cost airline traffic.

The airport is small and it only has a handful of shops and places to eat. The airport well organized and runs very efficiently. There is a good amount of parking.

The airport handles an average of almost two million passengers a year, and millions of pounds of cargo.

The one drawback to this airport is it’s location. It isn’t located very close to any of the major cities in Denmark. In true Danish logical fashion the airport was not placed next to Aarhus (Århus) the second largest city in the country. Instead it was placed very centrally in Jutland, and it lies between 40 and 100 km distance from 7 of Denmark 20 largest cities. This does seem like a very well thought out rational idea. However, the reality is that every traveller ends up being moderately inconvenienced. Especially when you factor in that Billund Airport does not have it’s own train stop. Either a bus trip to the nearest train station or a fairly lengthy bus voyage will be needed to get to your final destination. Unless of course you happen to be one of the rare individuals who have actually flown to Billund with the intention of staying in Billund. All your bus needs can be arranged quite easily in the airport.

The airport’s main runway can handle airliners as large as the aforementioned Boeing 747, although most passengers arrive on smaller airplanes, such as ATR-42s, Boeing 737s and Boeing 757s. Boeing 747 activity at this airport is almost exclusively limited to cargo flights.

AirBaltic (Riga)

Atlantic Airways (Vagar)

Sun Air of Scandinavia (Aarhus, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Gdańsk [begins April 20], Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, London-City, Manchester,

Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas, Plovdiv) [seasonal]

Cimber Air (Bergen, Copenhagen, London-Gatwick, Malaga [begins February 15], Munich, Nice [begins March 29], Oslo, Rome-Fiumicino [begins March 3],

Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda)

DAT – Danish Air Transport (Stavanger)

Iceland Express (Reykjavík-Keflavík)

Icelandair (Reykjavík-Keflavík) [charter]

KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)

Eurowings (Frankfurt)

North Flying

Ryanair (Alicante, Birmingham, Dublin, Edinburgh, Girona, London-Stansted, Milan-Bergamo, Pisa)

UPG-Airservice (Lviv)