Flying to Bornholm

Bornholm Airport

Bornholm Airport (IATA: RNN, ICAO: EKRN) lies around five kilometres south-east of the island capital, Rønne. Its paved 11/29 runway measures about 2,000 metres (2,002 metres, to be precise) – enough for the turboprop aircraft that operate the scheduled services today.

The airfield opened on 16 November 1940 as a Danish civil airfield named "Den Bornholmske Flyveplads", starting out with a simple grass strip and a small wooden building. Contrary to a common assumption, it was not built as a German military installation – but after Germany occupied Denmark in April 1940, the Luftwaffe did use and extend it as an emergency and diversion airfield. A first, makeshift terminal followed in 1941; the proper permanent terminal building didn't arrive until 1961. So if you picture a slick modern airport, adjust your expectations: Bornholm handles a modest, regional volume of traffic, not hub-scale numbers.

Flights within Denmark

The main route is operated by Danish regional carrier DAT (Danish Air Transport) under the brand "Bornholmerflyet". It flies the Copenhagen (CPH)–Bornholm (RNN) route year-round, several times a day, with around five to six departures each way on weekdays. From December, one weekday rotation is usually dropped, bringing it down to about five. The aircraft used are ATR 72 turboprops – including two ATR 72-600s introduced in autumn 2018 – alongside other ATR-42/72 variants. Flight time is about 35 to 40 minutes.

Over the summer, DAT adds seasonal direct flights from Jutland:

• From Billund: flight time around 1 hour 5 minutes. This route runs direct for a large part of the year.
• From Aalborg: flight time around 1 hour 15 minutes. Outside the summer season, Aalborg–Bornholm usually requires a connection.

DAT describes these seasonal windows only as "summer months" or "much of the year", without exact dates – if you need a specific spring or autumn connection, check the current timetable before booking.

Getting there from the UK or Ireland – connecting via Copenhagen

There are no direct flights to Bornholm from the UK or Ireland. To fly there, you first travel to Copenhagen and connect onto the DAT flight to Rønne. How you book matters, because it decides whether your baggage travels through with you.

DAT holds interline agreements with several airlines, including SAS, Finnair, Emirates, Widerøe and Qatar Airways. Baggage through-check to Bornholm only happens automatically if you book the entire journey as one through ticket via a partner's website – SAS (sas.dk), for example. In that case SAS checks your baggage from your original departure airport all the way to Rønne and sets the overall fare. That doesn't apply if you buy separate tickets or book directly through dat.dk: then you have to collect your baggage in Copenhagen yourself and check it in again for the onward flight. If you're travelling on separate tickets, build in a generous connection time, since a missed connection isn't covered.

Prices and booking

DAT's fares start, according to the airline, at 499 DKK from Aalborg and Billund and 549 DKK from Copenhagen – one way, with no extras included. These are best-case fares, not typical prices.

A realistic range for the main Copenhagen–Rønne route in 2026 looks like this:

• Low season: with flexible booking, a return flight can be found for under about 900 DKK – without checked baggage.
• High season: typically around 2,400 to 3,400 DKK return, depending on the month.

Book directly through DAT (dat.dk or bornholmerflyet.dk). If you need your baggage to travel through from outside Denmark to Bornholm, it's better to book via the interline partner instead – for example through sas.dk as a single through ticket. Since fares rise with demand, booking early pays off, especially for summer weeks.

From the airport into town

The airport is only about five kilometres from central Rønne, so the onward journey is short. A few options:

• Taxi: bookable through DanTaxi on +45 48 48 48 48, the number also listed on the official airport website. Often the simplest option for the short hop into Rønne.
• Flytaxi (shared taxi): must be pre-booked at least three hours before departure or arrival with Bornholm Taxi on +45 56 96 23 01. It serves addresses right across the island, not just Rønne, at a fixed fare of between 60 and 200 DKK depending on destination; you pay the driver directly.
• Bus (summer only): the regional BAT routes 7 and 8 stop at the airport. These are two island loop routes running in opposite directions – route 7 runs Rønne, Hasle, Hammershus, Gudhjem, Svaneke, Nexø, Dueodde, Airport, back to Rønne; route 8 covers the same loop the other way. Both run in the summer season only.

One practical note on public transport: Bornholm does not accept the nationwide Rejsekort – BAT is the only Danish transport operator without this system. Instead there are punch cards (paper or app-based) as well as 24-hour and 7-day tickets; fares were adjusted on 18 January 2026. BAT only publishes exact departure times at the airport day by day, via bat.dk or rejseplanen.dk – worth checking before your flight home. More on paying your way on the island is in our guide to money and payment.

Flying or the ferry? An honest comparison

Flying is the fastest way to Bornholm, but it isn't always the best choice. The obvious alternative is the train-plus-fast-ferry combination: Bornholmslinjen runs the Ystad–Rønne catamaran ferry, a crossing of around 80 minutes with up to 16 sailings a day. From Copenhagen, trains via Malmö (the DSB Øresund train plus the Swedish Pågatåg) get you to Ystad for the connection; the old through "InterCity Bornholm" service in its original form no longer exists. Door to door, the train-plus-ferry route from Copenhagen to Bornholm takes around 2.5 to 3 hours.

On price, the picture flips: the Ystad–Rønne ferry starts from 199 DKK for a car with up to five people (one way), and combined train-plus-ferry tickets are bookable as a single through product ("DSB Standard Bornholm") via DSB. The rule of thumb: flying saves time, the train-ferry combination saves money – and it brings your own car along, which flying can't. If you're already travelling to Copenhagen affordably and fancy a relaxed sea crossing, the ferry is a good choice; if you don't want to give up a whole day to travel, fly instead.

A comparison of all the ferry routes is in our guide to ferries to Bornholm, and the train options from abroad are covered in getting there by train. All the ways to reach the island compared – car, train, ferry and flight – are brought together in the general guide to getting to Bornholm.