Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport

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Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport
Bucharest Airport Logo.svg
Henri Coandă International Airport, March 2013.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code LROP
IATA code OTP
Coordinates

44 ° 34 '20 "  N , 26 ° 6' 8"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 34 '20 "  N , 26 ° 6' 8"  E
Height above MSL 96 m (315  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 16 km north of Bucharest
Basic data
opening 1968
operator Compania Nationala AIHCB SA
Terminals 1
Passengers 12,802,000 (2017)
Air freight 31,421 t (2015)
Flight
movements 		97,218 (2015)
Runways
08R / 26L 3500 m × 45 m asphalt
08L / 26R 3500 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Bucharest Henri Coanda Airport ( IATA : OTP , ICAO : LROP ); ( Romanian Aeroportul Internațional Henri Coandă Bucureşti ), formerly Bucharest-Otopeni Airport , is the larger of the two international airports of the Romanian capital Bucharest before Băneasa . It is located north of Bucharest in the small town of Otopeni and is the country's main airport. It serves as a hub for the state airline TAROM and the Romanian Blue Air .

history

The airport goes back to a military airfield opened in 1940 , which in spring 1941 served as an intermediate landing site for the German Air Force as part of the Wehrmacht's Balkan campaign . The airfield was expanded in 1943 and became a base for German interceptors against Allied bombers. Squadrons stationed here for a longer period were from May 1943 to August 1944 the Bf 110 of the 10th and 12th squadron of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 6 (10th and 12./NJG 6) and from December 1943 to August 1944 the 2nd squadron of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 100 ( 2nd squadron ) ./NJG 100). The airfield was the target of bombing raids by the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces on April 4 and August 26, 1944 .

After the end of the Second World War , the Romanian Air Force took over the runway, which had been extended to 1200 meters in 1944. It maintains the 90 air base here to this day . From 1965 work began on converting the military airfield into a civil airport. For this purpose, runway 08/26 was extended to 3500 meters and the first international flights were handled from 1968. The terminal for up to 1.2 million passengers was opened on April 13, 1970 and still serves as an international arrival terminal today. In 1987, the parallel runway 08L / 26R, built at a distance of only 1100 meters, was put into operation.

In May 2004 the airport was named after the aviation pioneer and developer Henri Marie Coandă . In March 2011 a new finger dock was put into operation.

In April 2012, all scheduled flights that had previously been handled at the smaller Băneasa airport moved to Otopeni, as Băneasa will only be used for business travel from that date.

In 2017, the airport recorded 12.802 million passengers.

Terminal building

Inside view of the terminal

The airport has one terminal for all domestic and international flights. It has 24 gates, 14 of which are equipped with passenger boarding bridges . In addition, there are three business class lounges and three VIP lounges available to air travelers .

Airlines and Destinations

A TAROM Boeing at a passenger boarding bridge

Bucharest Henri Coandă is the home airport of the local TAROM , which is also the most active airline at the airport. It operates intra-European and national flights.

The charter airline Air Bucharest , like the Hungarian Wizz Air and the Irish Ryanair , operates a base at the airport. Various other European airlines also operate.

Business class lounge at the airport in Bucharest

There are only intercontinental connections to northern Africa (e.g. Tunisia) and the Middle East. A connection to North America (New York) was offered by Delta Airlines in 2008, but discontinued a few months after the start.

Transport links

Bus : There are two express bus routes to the city center, line 780 and line 783. Both lines connect Otopeni Airport with Bucharest-Băneasa Airport . From there, line 780 goes to Gara de Nord , line 783 goes through the most important places in the city center, including Piața Charles de Gaulle, Piața Victoriei , Piața Romană , Piața Universității , and Piața Unirii . The bus stop is on the ground floor of the airport building, one floor below arrivals. The drive to the city center takes just under an hour and costs around 2 euros (as of 2018).

Car : The airport is 20 kilometers north of the city center. The national road DN1 leads there. The A3 motorway , which opened in 2012, runs a few kilometers east of the airport without having a direct connection.

Taxi : Fixed taxi prices from a company (“Fly”) apply to the city center from the airport. Other taxis also offer their services, but these are usually much more expensive or have fixed prices. The prices mentioned in the negotiations with the taxi drivers are usually euro amounts.

Incidents

In the area of ​​Bucharest-Otopeni / -Henri Coanda airport, eight total aircraft losses occurred between 1971 and December 2018. In two of them 65 people were killed.

Web links

Commons : Henri Coandă International Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traficul aerian a explodat anul trecut , Pro TV March 6, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Traffic Evolution. BucharestAirports.ro, accessed on July 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Information on the Romanian Air Force website. Archived from the original on May 14, 2014 ; accessed on May 13, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ FlugRevue October 2010, pp. 72–75, hub for Romania - Aeroportul International Henri Coanda.
  5. ↑ a b Andra Drochioiu: Otopeni Airport has new terminal following EUR 60 M investment. In: Nine O'Clock. March 30, 2011, accessed September 20, 2011 .
  6. ↑ romanliberia.ro - Cum va Arata Aeroportul de lux din Baneasa (Romanian) March 9, 2011.
  7. ↑ Traficul aerian a explodat anul trecut , Pro TV March 6, 2018
  8. ^ Bucharest Airports - VIP & Business Lounges - Henri Coandă. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Accident statistics Bucharest-Otopeni , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 14, 2018.