In recent years, Aalborg Airport has become a large airport. Extensive growth has made Aalborg Airport the third largest airport in Denmark.
 
Air traffic on international flights to Aalborg, in the Nordic region of Jutland, is on the rise – resulting in an expansion of the airport.

Aalborg Airport will begin expanding the airport with an investment of 23.5 million euro in January 2012 finishing in May 2013. The investment involves expanding the number of gates from six to 12, creating a new lounge area and also the airport’s tax-free shop will enlarge significantly in size from 70 to 510 square meters. 

Aalborg Airport may expand in size physically, but the airport has also grown in other ways. In spring 2011, KLM launched four daily flight connections between Aalborg-Amsterdam connecting Aalborg to more than 200 international destinations. Now in spring 2012, the same ailrine will expand their daily flight connections between Aalborg-Amsterdam from four to six.


The Spanish airline Vueling will launch flight connections between Aalborg-Barcelona and Norwegian plan to open a new route Aalborg-Berlin as well as re-open the Aalborg-Gatwick route, all in 2012. Besides these destinations, Aalborg is directly connected to Copenhagen by 44 daily roundtrip flights.