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|név=Billund Airport
|sajátnév=Billund Lufthavn
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|megnyitás_éve=1964
|üzemeltető=Billund Airport Ltd.
|város=Billund
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|utasforgalom= 1 882 034 <small>(2006)</small><ref>[http://www.billund-airport.com/nnn/nf/gb/statistikker.shtml Statistics], Billund Lufthavn (letöltve: 2007.02.05.)</ref>
|teherforgalom=55 986 <small>(2006)</small>
|gépmozgás=50 404 <small>(2006)</small>
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|kifutó_hossz1=3100
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A '''Billundi repülőtér''' (kódok: IATA: BLL; ICAO: EKBI) Dánia második legforgalmasabb repülőtere. Elsősorban légi teherszállítást és charter járatokat szolgál ki, de – többek között a billundi Legoland közelsége miatt – egyre több a menetrendszerinti járat is.

==Történet==
Az 1960-as években született meg az ötlet az európai légiforgalom emelkedése miatt, hogy repülőteret kellene építeni Billundban. Az építkezés 1964-ben egész évben folyt, és az első járat még abban az évben, november 1-jén felszállhatott. Az első terminál 1966-ban készült el.

Az első menetrendszerinti járatot a SAS indította: naponta repülte a Billund és Koppenhága közötti belföldi útvonalat. Az első nemzetközi (charter) járat tengerészeket vitt egy hajóhoz Észak-Olaszországba. Rövid időre rá a teherszállítás is megkezdődött.

A kifutópálya jelenlegi hosszúságát 1971-ben érte el.

A menetrendszerinti nemzetközi forgalom 1984-ben indulhatott meg, amikor az EGK a légiközlekedés liberalizálása mellett döntött. Az első járatot a Maersk Air indította az angliai Southendbe.

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'''Billund Airport'''  in air cargo centres, as well as a charter airline destination, although some regular airlines also offer flights there.

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.

==History==
With the advent of the jet era, travel to 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. In order to build the airport, the Billund Airport Cooperative Society was formed, with the administritive officer of the county of Vejle, A.M. Wamberg, appointed as chairman of the board.

Assigned construction workers spent most of 1964 building the airport. On November 1 of the same year, the airport was inaugurated.

The first airline to have regular flights out of Billund Airport was SAS, with daily domestic operations to Copenhagen. The first international flight was held in order to take some sailors to a ship that was awaiting them in Italy.

The first cargo flights began to arrive during the late 1960s. When the Boeing 747's 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 newcoming 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 3100 meters, enough for the largest jet of the era, the aforementioned 747, to land. Other measures, such as preparing the air tower with new technology to accommodate the new flights and busier schedule, were also taken.

Directors at Billund already envisioned non-stop, regular passenger flights to international destinations. But the European Economic Community provided a rather unlikely obstacle, preferring to have only one international airport in Denmark instead. 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. Maersk Air provided with the first such service, when the airline began a weekly service to Southend, England. Soon after, the famous Concorde, flown by British Airways, made a stop at the airport.

Billund became a hub airport for Maersk Air. Since then, however, the airline was bought and made a part of Sterling Airways which now accounts for the most important European destinations from Billund.