Denmark: airlines, codes & hubs

Network airlines

Scheduled airlines with a hub and connecting flights – usually on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.

Air Greenland

GL / GRL

Greenland’s airline: a single red widebody jet to Copenhagen, Dash 8s between the coastal towns and a large helicopter fleet – plus a route network being fundamentally reshaped by three new airports.

Atlantic Airways

RC / FLI

The airline of the Faroe Islands: a small Airbus fleet with A320 and A320neo, a helicopter service between the islands and a home airport between mountains and fjord where wind and fog set the pace.

Maersk Air

DM / DAN

Historical Danish airline of the shipping group A. P. Møller-Mærsk: Maersk Air flew from 1969 to 2005 out of Copenhagen and Billund, mainly with Boeing 737s and Fokker turboprops, and merged into Sterling in 2005.

Low-cost carriers

Cheap point-to-point flights, often with a single-type fleet, many bases and short turnaround times.

Sterling Airlines

NB / SNB

Historic Danish airline: Sterling Airways flew vacationers south from 1962, went bankrupt in 1993, returned as Sterling European and became a low-cost carrier from 2001 – until bankruptcy in October 2008.

Leisure airlines

Airlines focused on vacation destinations – in scheduled service and for tour operators.

Jettime

JTD

Danish charter and ACMI airline from Kastrup near Copenhagen: Boeing 737-800s for tour operators, sports teams and as short-notice cover for other airlines – formerly with ATR 72s flown for SAS as well.

Sunclass Airlines

DK / VKG

Scandinavia’s leisure airline from Copenhagen: Airbus A321 and A330-900neo, flights for Ving, Spies and Tjäreborg, and a history from Premiair through MyTravel to Thomas Cook Scandinavia.

Regional airlines

Short routes with turboprops and regional jets, often as feeders to the big hubs.

Cimber Air / Cimber Sterling

QI / CIM

Historic regional airline from Sønderborg: founded in 1950, later a partner of Lufthansa and SAS, flying as Cimber Sterling from 2009 – and bankrupt in May 2012.

DAT Danish Air Transport

DX / DTR

Family-run airline from Vamdrup in Jutland: scheduled flights of its own to Bornholm, in Norway, Germany and Italy, plus wet lease with ATR turboprops and Airbus A320s for other airlines.

Cargo airlines

All-cargo airlines, cargo subsidiaries and express services with their own freighters.

Star Air

SRR

The Danish cargo airline of the Maersk group: flying freighters for UPS from Cologne/Bonn since 1993, for years with Boeing 767-200s and -300s, and since 2022 under the name Maersk Air Cargo with its own hub in Billund.

Charter & wet lease

Companies that fly aircraft with crew for other airlines, tour operators or sports teams.

Sun-Air of Scandinavia

EZ / SUS

The family-run airline from Billund flew in British Airways colors for almost three decades – latterly with the Dornier 328JET. There have been no scheduled flights since the end of March 2025; Sun-Air now flies charter only.

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