Sibiu Airport
| Aeroportul Internațional Sibiu | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | LRSB |
| IATA code | SBZ |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 443 m (1453 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 3 km west of Sibiu |
| Street | E 68 / E 81 |
| Local transport | Taxi shuttle bus |
| Basic data | |
| opening | new Sept. 2007 |
| operator | Romanian Civil Aviation Authority (RCAA) |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 503.906 (2017) |
| Flight movements |
5342 |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
1 million p. a. |
| Start-and runway | |
| 09/27 | 2630 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Sibiu International Airport is the commercial airport of the Romanian city of Sibiu .
history
The flight operations began in 1943 on a grassy area of 174 ha. The first routes of the airline LARES (Liniile Aeriene Române Exploatate de Stat) were Bucharest - Hermannstadt - Arad and Bucharest - Hermannstadt - Oradea. In 1944, Sibiu was connected with cities such as Bucharest, Brașov, Deva, Oradea and Târgu Mureș. In 1959 a two-storey airport building with a control tower and waiting area for 50 passengers each (arrival and departure) was built.
In 1970 approach lights and runway lighting were installed to enable night flight operations. The concrete runway at that time was 2000 m long and 30 m wide. In 1975 radar systems were put into operation; In 1992 the airport was opened to international traffic with connections to Stuttgart and Munich .
After the local elections in 2004, which brought the candidate of the Democratic German Forum in Romania , Martin Bottesch , into office, a large-scale expansion of the airport was considered for the first time. This was already in regular use by then, but was in a dilapidated condition. No significant modernization work had taken place since the end of communism. With Romania's planned admission to the EU in 2007 and the city's economic boom since 2000, the plans gained even more weight. At the beginning of 2005, the Sibiu District Council and the city of Hermannstadt finally made the decision to expand the airport.
The district administration vigorously pushed ahead with the expansion, among other things with the support of the European Investment Bank . However, the project was only made possible by the commitment of the city of Sibiu to bear half of the costs; the funds from the district budget would not have been sufficient. The Romanian government also brought in 40 million lei. However, the latter was not prepared to secure the loan from the European Investment Bank. The city and district were therefore forced to take out another loan of 140 million lei in spring 2007 in order not to let the work that began in 2006 come to a standstill.
A modern, state-of-the-art terminal (including an automatic baggage transport system from Siemens ), a new control tower, a fire station (a complete infrastructure to be precise) and the expansion of the parking spaces were completed in September 2007. The new runway was commissioned in November 2007. The old runway was renewed by May 2008. Further work on the old apron and the old terminal building was also completed by mid-2008.
At the end of August 2010, only two years after its completion, the extended runway suffered major landslides due to an inadequate drainage system. Air traffic was diverted to Târgu Mureș and Cluj during this time . In the meantime the whole thing has stabilized and the runway was shortened from 3050 m to 2630 m. But now the question arises as to whether the German construction company Max Bögl or its local subcontractor IPTANA have messed up.
The airport currently has a capacity of 1 million passengers a year, and can handle 300 people per hour. The signage in the terminal building is in three languages ( Romanian , English , German ).
Location and transport links
The airport is 3 kilometers west of the city center of Sibiu on the arterial road to Alba Iulia . The two European roads E 68 and E 81 , as well as the Romanian national roads (drum național) DN1 and DN7 , run together here. There is a connection to the Romanian A1 about three and a half kilometers north of the airport .
Airlines and Destinations
Sibiu is currently served by Austrian Airlines , Blue Air , Lufthansa , TAROM and Wizz Air . There are daily direct flights to Munich . There are also direct connections to Dortmund , London , Madrid , Milan , Memmingen , Nuremberg , Stuttgart and Vienna . Furthermore, direct flights to and from Basel and Brussels will be offered from June 21, 2018 and to Frankfurt , Copenhagen and Paris from June 22, 2018 (as of January 7, 2018).
Passenger numbers
The number of passengers at the airport has developed as follows since 2011:
| year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Passenger numbers | development | |
| 2018 | > 700,000 | ▲ > + 34.7% |
| 2017 | 519.835 | ▲ + 33.1% |
| 2016 | 390,688 | ▲ + 27.2% |
| 2015 | 307.026 | ▲ + 22.6% |
| 2014 | 250,400 | ▲ + 12.4% |
| 2013 | 222,780 | ▲ + 8.3% |
| 2012 | 205,954 | ▲ + 8.5% |
| 2011 | 189,750 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the airport website, Evoluția traficului de pasageri, accessed on March 11, 2018 (Romanian)
- ↑ ORDIN 169 / 1.801. Planul national de actiune privind reducerea emisiilor de gaze cu efect de seră în domeniul aviatiei civile
- ↑ Information on the airport website , accessed on December 27, 2017 (Romanian).
- ^ Report in the newspaper Tribuna with pictures, Romanian
- ↑ Web presentation: Aeroport Sibiu. Retrieved January 7, 2018 (Romanian).
- ↑ European Airport Traffic Trends. ( xls ; 2.22 MB) Accessed October 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Milestones. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
Arad | Bacau | Baia Mare | Bucharest-Aurel Vlaicu | Bucharest-Henri Coandă | Caransebeş | Cluj | Constanța | Craiova | Iași | Oradea | Satu Mare | Sibiu | Suceava | Târgu Mureș | Timișoara | Tulcea