Bacau Airport

Aeroportul Internațional "George Enescu" Bacau Baza 95 Aeriană Bacau
Characteristics
ICAO code	LRBC
IATA code	BCM
Coordinates	46 ° 31 '19 "  N , 26 ° 54' 37"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '19 "  N , 26 ° 54' 37"  E
Height above MSL	185 m (607  ft )
Transport links
Street
Basic data
opening	1946
Start-and runway
16/34	2500 m × 80 m concrete

The Aeroportul Internațional "George Enescu" Bacau , also Bacau "George Enescu" International Airport or in German Airport Bacau or George Enescu Airport Bacau is an international airport in Romania near the city of Bacau . It is named after George Enescu .

The Romanian Air Force also used it as a military airfield under the name Baza 95 Aeriană Bacău "Alexandru Șerbănescu" .

history

During the Second World War, there was a field airfield on the site of today's airport , which was used by the Air Force in June / July 1944 . She referred to it as "Bacau-Trotus", in contrast to the "Bacau-Margineni" airfield north of the city from the prewar period. In Bacau-Trotus were the Fw190s of the II. Group of the battle squadron 2 (II./SG 2) as well as the 10th and 14th squadrons of the battle squadron 9 (10th and 14th (Pz.) / SG 9) for fighting tanks were equipped with the Hs 129B-2 .

The airport opened on April 1, 1946 for civil, cargo and passenger operations. The airport was expanded in the seventies, so that it received international status on December 30, 1975. The airport has been a member of the Airports Council International since 1997 .

The base of the air force in its current form was set up in 1995 as the 95th training flight center and after several years of reorganization of the air force in view of Romania's accession to NATO , it was given its current name of 95th air base in 2004. Jet training was the responsibility of a school squadron, the Escadrila 205 , which borrowed its MiG-21 from the local squadron, the Escadrila 951 . In 2013, the MiG-21s were withdrawn and the 205th squadron decommissioned. Since then, the training has been incumbent on the 951st Squadron, which has since been equipped with the IAR-99C Soim .

After the turn of the millennium, the civilian side of the airport saw great passenger growth and the number of passengers multiplied. Today it is therefore the most important airport in north-east Romania.

Bacau-Margineni Airport

Before the Second World War, the small Bacau airfield was three to four kilometers north-northwest of the city along today's national route 15 .

During the war it was used by both Romanian and German fighter planes. Air force units lying here at the beginning of the German Russian campaign in June / July 1941 were the bulk of Jagdgeschwader 77 , equipped with the Bf 109E / F at the time , and the long-range reconnaissance aircraft of the 3rd squadron of the ObdL reconnaissance group (3rd (F) / reconnaissance group. Gr.Ob.dL) and the 2nd season of the reconnaissance group 22 (2nd (F) / Aufkl.Gr. 22).

In the early summer of 1944 when the Wehrmacht withdrew, parts of battle squadrons 2, 9 and 10 used the airfield; the last German association was the 2nd season of the close reconnaissance group 14 (2./NAGr. 14) until August .

Military use

The Romanian Baza 95 Aeriana (as of 2018) has two flying squadrons

• Escadrila 951 Aviatie Instructie Avansata , school relay , equipped with IAR-99C Soim since 2013
• Escadrila 952 Elicoptere SOCAT , helicopter squadron , equipped with IAR-330L / IAR-330SOCAT

The maintenance facility of Aerostar, which looks after the majority of Romanian military aircraft, is also located here.

Civil use

Airlines and Destinations

The largest local airline is by far the Romanian low-cost airline Blue Air . From Bacau it serves the Italian destinations Verona, Milan-Bergamo, Turin-Cuneo, Florence, Rome, Bari, Ancona and Bologna as well as Barcelona, ​​Dublin, London-Luton, Brussels, Paris-Beauvais and Larnaka. The second local airline is Carpatair , which serves Timișoara from Bacau , where there are numerous connection options. From the end of March 2016, Bacău will also be served twice a week from Stuttgart.

Romania's flag carrier, TAROM , once the only local airline, no longer flies to Bacau.

Passenger statistics

The following table shows the development of the passenger numbers of the Aeroportul Internațional George Enescu Bacău. The passenger boom that began shortly after the turn of the millennium is clearly visible, which is related to the activity of Blue Air at the airport.

year	Passengers
2014	313,376
2013	307,488
2011	318,000
2010	240,767
2009	195,952
2008	119,657
2007	114,323
2002	12,600

future

In view of the increased traffic at the airport, there are plans to expand it. On the agenda are, for example, the construction of a new, modern and larger terminal with a capacity of 450 passengers per hour and the expansion of the runway, which is to receive an instrument runway system.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the Romanian Air Force website ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 13, 2014
2. ↑ The airport via membership in the Airports Council International  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ History of the airport  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Destinations from Bacau ( memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on November 25, 2015 (PDF; 391 kB)  
5. ↑ Information from airliners.de on October 12, 2015
6. ↑ Passenger numbers ( memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
7. ↑ Stefan Popa: Aeroportul “George Enescu” Bacau devine dead mai cautat de clienți. Ziarul de Bacău, January 29, 2012, accessed September 19, 2015 (Romanian). 
8. ↑ cosmin: Creştere de la trafic Aeroportul Internaţional Bacau. airnews.ro, January 15, 2015, accessed September 19, 2015 (Romanian). 
9. ↑ Expansion plans at the airport  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Airport website
• Airport data from World Aero Data (English)