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The City of Malmö focuses on Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport is losing market shares to competing airports. According to a number of large and important actors in the Øresund Region, this is a serious challenge for the entire region - therefor they have now allocated more than SEK 200 mil. to reverse the tendency through the project Copenhagen Connected.
This week the City of Malmö (Malmö stad) decided to dedicate SEK 2.4 mil. to the Copenhagen Connected project which kicks off in late January. The purpose is to strengthen Copenhagen Airport so that it keeps its position as a central hub towards the rest of the world.
- I doubt that we would have attracted the ESS in Lund if had not had Copenhagen Airport this close. And when we ask big companies why they place their head quarters in Malmö, an important reason is that it is so close to a big airport, says Ilmar Reepalu, mayor of the City of Malmö.
Copenhagen Connected is a four years project funded by the Danish government, the regions constituting the Øresund Region, the Cities of Copenhagen, Lund, and Malmö, organizations such as Copenhagen Capacity, Wonderful Copenhagen and the private business sector.
- Copenhagen Airport will experience even more and stronger competition in a few years when Berlin opens a new large airport. Worst case scenario is that this region will be more peripheral in stead of being close to Central Europe, says Ilmar Reepalu to the news service Nytt från Öresund (News from Oresund).
One of the project goals is to increase the demand of routes to and from Copenhagen Airport and to gain new strategical, international flight connections.
- Right now we are working on attracting resources to the organization which later will prove what concrete actions we need to take, says Ilmar Reepalu.
Source: Nytt från Öresund
