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* Billund Airport ( BLL ), in central Jutland, one of Denmark's busiest cargo centres as well as a popular charter airline destination and an airport for regular flights serving 2. 4 million passengers a year, mainly from the western part of the country.
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Billund and Airport
Among Jutland's regional attractions are Legoland close to Billund Airport, the easterly village of Ebeltoft with its cobbled streets and half-timbered houses, Skagen in the far north famous for its seascapes and artist community and the north-west beach resorts of Løkken and Lønstrup.
Sun Air of Scandinavia, a franchise of British Airways, started flights from Torp to Billund Airport on 1 November 1999, but this was terminated in March 2000.
Vejle Municipality is part-owner of Denmark's second-largest airport, Billund Airport, located near the Lego Group's headquarters some 30 km.
Airport buses run regularly to Billund Airport from Vejle Transit Centre.
Many travellers to or from Aarhus use the larger Billund Airport instead, located away by road.
File: Arriving at Vágar Airport, Faroe Islands. JPG | An arrival from Billund
Billund Airport is Denmark's second busiest airport, and was opened in 1964.
In 1962 the Billund Airport was inaugurated, first as Lego's private airport, and was later opened for other uses.
Its main base is Billund Airport.
As of 2010, Sylt Air operates seasonal scheduled flights between Sylt, Hamburg ( Hamburg Airport ) and Billund ( Billund Airport ).
Capella Bar at Billund Airport level 2
Billund Airport located northeast of Billund, Denmark, serves as one of Denmark's busiest air cargo centers, as well as a charter airline destination, although some regular airlines also offer flights there.
To build the airport, the Billund Airport Cooperative Society was formed, with the administrative officer of the county of Vejle, A. M. Wamberg, appointed as chairman of the board.
The first airline to have regular flights out of Billund Airport was SAS, with daily domestic operations to Copenhagen.
On 15 September 2010 a Lufthansa Airbus A380-800 did a flyby at Billund Airport.
Billund Airport 2007
* Billund Airport official site: Danish or English
After its rival, Air Lithuania went bankrupt in November 2005, Amber Air was expected to take over Air Lithuania's routes to Oslo and Billund Airport.
* Billund Airport, IATA code: BLL
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On January 1, 2007 due to Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), the old Billund municipality was combined with the former Grindsted Municipality.
* Denmark ( Aalborg, Billund, and Copenhagen ),
Maersk Air also had a route to the earlier hub of Maersk Air, Billund ( Denmark ), for a short period ( from November 1, 2003 to October 31, 2004 ).
Billund and Jutland
Billund Kommune is a municipality ( Danish, kommune ) in Region of Southern Denmark in the center of the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark.
Billund and one
On 3 May 2012, Cimber Sterling – one of largest operator out from Billund – was declared bankrupt.
Legoland Billund had more than one million visitors in this year, for the first time in its history.
Billund and Denmark's
( Coupland appears on the rear cover of the novel's hardcover versions photographed in Denmark's Legoland Billund, holding a Lego 747.
Billund and cargo
When the Boeing 747s began operating in 1970, cargo airlines from both the Americas and from Asia began to see Billund airport as a good stop-over point for their flights between the United States and the Far East, and vice-versa.
Billund airport officials, seeing that the city and the airport would benefit from the extra fees that the newer carriers would have to pay for landing rights, agreed to make Billund a cargo center, and the airport's main runway was expanded in 1971, to, enough for the largest jet of the era, the aforementioned 747, to land.
Several cargo airlines ( or passenger airline cargo divisions ) make stops at Billund airport.
Here is a partial list of cargo airlines or divisions serving Billund airport.
Billund and well
The airports of Copenhagen and Billund provide a variety of domestic and international connections while ferries provide services to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom as well as routes to the Danish islands.
In response to the growing poverty, Billund Housing Association was founded and created affordable housing as well as a retirement home.
Billund and charter
With the growth of the city of Billund as a favourite destination among charter passengers, a new terminal became a necessity, and, in 2002, the airport's Terminal Two was opened, which allowed officials to close Terminal One to passengers and turn it into a cargo-only terminal.
In the 2011 – 12, many charter airlines began long-haul operations out of Billund with following destinations: Colombo, Phuket, Sharjah, St. Croix in the winter and Cancún, Punta Cana in the summer.
In addition to the scheduled airlines above, several charter airlines serve Billund airport: BH Air, Bulgarian Air Charter, Jet Time, Nesma Airlines, Sky Airlines.
It frequently operated charter flights to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Düsseldorf in Germany, Billund and Copenhagen in Denmark, Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Moscow in Russia.
Billund and airline
Sun Air of Scandinavia is an airline based in Billund, Billund Municipality, Denmark.
By 1984, however, the EEC officials changed their minds, and Billund airport was finally allowed to have its first regular, non-stop airline service to another country.
Since then, however, the airline was bought and made a part of Sterling Airways, now Cimber Sterling, which now accounts for the most important European destinations from Billund.
Billund and airport
For the west of the country, the major airport is Billund ( 2. 7m passengers in 2011 ) although both Aalborg ( 1. 4m passengers in 2011 ) and Aarhus ( 591. 000 passengers in 2011 ) have smaller airports with regular connections to Copenhagen.
For the west of the country, the major airport is Billund although both Aarhus and Aalborg have smaller airports with regular connections to Copenhagen.
The proximity of the airport to the Legoland theme park in Billund arguably makes it easier for the airport to attract passengers, and to lure more airlines into operating to the airport.
With the advent of the jet era, travel to Europe on the rise and such airlines as Air France, BOAC, Iberia, and United States airlines, particularly Pan Am and TWA making international advances, it was decided that an airport was needed in Billund during the 1960s.
Billund became a hub airport for Maersk Air.
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