Normally this wouldn’t be a particularly odd thing, most airports have an express bus link.
It’s just with Copenhagen, it’s so well connected to the airport that does it really need this extra one.
To put it into context, Heathrow is the UK’s largest airport, and one of the most important airports in the world. Copenhagen is certainly the most important airport in Scandinavia, and certainly comes in the top 10 of major European airports.
Heathrow:
- Quarter hourly train service taking around 20 minutes at the cost of around £20
- Tube every 10 minutes or so, taking well over the hour, but only costing around the £6 mark
- Coaches pretty regular, taking well over the hour, but again costing only a couple of quid
- Buses, local buses from nearby train and tube stations, nearest advertised link is in Feltham taking 30 minutes and costing £1.20
Copenhagen:
- Train every 10 minutes, taking around 10 minutes, cost £4
- Metro every 4 minutes, taking less than 15 minutes, cost £4
- Bus every 4 minutes, taking less than 30 minutes, cost £4
Which brings me back to the question, why, on top of 6 trains, 15 metro’s and 15 busses an hour (and that’s only the buses from the city centre, not the local ones closer to the airport) would you need a coach service?
And then, in small writing, I discovered the real reason. And it’s an old favourite, it’s RyanAir.
The “Copenhagen” airport express is actually to take you over into Sweden to an airport on the outskirts of Malmo that RyanAir use as their “Copenhagen” base.
They used to actually call it Copenhagen, but then some busy-body in the EU decided that landing at an airport in another country which uses a different currency to the city your advertising you are flying to is a bit misleading and perhaps they should be a little more honest. Just who do these EU Bureaucrats think they are? Next they’ll be saying the plans to rename Birmingham as London-Birmingham International are not on!
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