Cluj airport

Aeroportul Internațional Avram Iancu Cluj
Characteristics
ICAO code	LRCL
IATA code	CLJ
Coordinates	46 ° 47 '7 " N , 23 ° 41' 10" E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '7 " N , 23 ° 41' 10" E
Height above MSL	316 m (1037 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	9 km east of Cluj-Napoca
Street	Traian Vuia, No. 149; E 576
Local transport	Bus lines 8 and 8L of the CTP
Basic data
opening	1932
operator	Consiliul Județean Cluj
surface	8.34 hectares
Passengers	2,678,000 (2017)
Start-and runway
07/25	2040 m × 45 m concrete

The Avram Iancu airport, Cluj ( IATA CLJ , ICAO LRCL ; Romanian Aeroportul Internaţional Avram Iancu Cluj (AIAIC)) is an airport at Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) in the region Transylvania in Romania . It is the third most important commercial airport in the country and is located 9 km east of the city in the suburb of Someșeni . The name " Avram Iancu " refers to a revolutionary from this region in the 19th century.

Even before the Second World War, today's airport was used both civilly and as a military airfield by the Romanian Air Force. During the Second World War, he served in the Hungarian Air Force from 1940 to 1944, when this part of Romania was part of what was then the Kingdom of Hungary.

Airlines and Destinations

There are direct flights to the airport from German-speaking countries: Lufthansa Regional flies from Munich , Austrian Airlines and TAROM from Vienna , and Wizz Air from Berlin , Dortmund , Cologne , Frankfurt , Memmingen , Baden-Baden , Basel and Nuremberg . There are also connections with TAROM via Bucharest .

In addition to flights to Bucharest, Wizz Air also offers connections to Barcelona , Bari , Basel , Beauvais , Bergamo , Charleroi , Eindhoven , Forlì , Genoa , Larnaka , London-Luton , Madrid , Málaga , Malmö , Rome-Ciampino , Saragossa , Stockholm-Skavsta , Tel Aviv , Treviso , Valencia and Vienna .

LOT also connects Cluj-Napoca with Warsaw , Turkish Airlines and AtlasGlobal with Istanbul , Blue Air with Dublin and Hamburg .

Passenger numbers

The number of passengers at Avram Iancu Airport in Cluj-Napoca increased by around 1648% from 2001 to 2015. In 2017, the airport recorded 2.678 million passengers.

year
year	Passenger numbers	development
2017	2,699,286	▲ + 43.6%
2016	1,884,645	▲ + 26.7%
2015	1,487,603	▲ + 25.8%
2014	1,182,047	▲ + 14%
2013	1,036,438	▲ + 10.7%
2012	932,000	▼ −7.2%
2011	1,004,555	▼ −4.7%
2010	1,029,507	▲ + 23.4%
2009	834,400	▲ + 11%
2008	752.181	▲ + 93%
2007	390,521	▲ + 60%
2006	244,366	▲ + 21%
2005	202,556	▲ + 25%
2004	162,668	▲ + 34%
2003	121,037	▲ + 15%
2002	105.091	▲ + 17%
2001	90.128	▲ + 19%

Web links

Commons : Avram Iancu Cluj Airport - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Avram Iancu Cluj Airport website
David Ciceo: Activity report 1st semester 2016. accessed on October 27, 2016 (Romanian; PDF; 5.6 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Traficul aerian a explodat anul trecut , Pro TV March 6, 2018
↑ Program of flights to and from Cluj, as of June 2017
↑ CLUJ "AVRAM IANCU" INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RA - 2016 (Romanian)
↑ Traficul aerian a explodat anul trecut , Pro TV March 6, 2018
↑ European Airport Traffic Trends. ( xls ; 2.22 MB) Retrieved March 11, 2018 (English).

[1] Traficul aerian a explodat anul trecut , Pro TV March 6, 2018

[2] Program of flights to and from Cluj, as of June 2017

[wt2012-02-28-3] CLUJ "AVRAM IANCU" INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT RA - 2016 (Romanian)

[4] Traficul aerian a explodat anul trecut , Pro TV March 6, 2018

[5] European Airport Traffic Trends. ( xls ; 2.22 MB) Retrieved March 11, 2018 (English).