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The airport is named after Romanian flight pioneer Henri Coandă, builder of Coandă-1910 aircraft and discoverer of the Coandă effect of fluidics. Prior to May 2004, the official name was Bucharest Otopeni International Airport (Romanian: Aeroportul Internațional București Otopeni).
Bucharest / Băneasa: LRBS BBU Bucharest "Aurel Vlaicu" International Airport (formerly Băneasa Airport) APP 119.415 TWR 125.205 GND 129.950 Bucharest / Otopeni: LROP OTP Bucharest "Henri Coandă" International Airport (formerly Otopeni Airport) APP 119.415 TWR 118.805 GND 121.855 DEL 121.955 Brașov / Ghimbav: LRBV GHV Brașov-Ghimbav ...
[11] [12] In June 2019, it was announced that the airport will reopen for commercial flights in early 2020. [13] On 1 August 2022, the airport was re-opened after 10 years of renovation work and 110 years since it was founded. [14] The first scheduled flight was operated on 20 April 2023, to Antalya.
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Airline timetables used to be printed, multi-page pamphlets available at airport counters, or upon request by phone or mail. On January 16, 1928, Pan Am published one of their first timetables. It read The air-way to Havana, Pan American Airways, Pershing Square Building, New York.
The Otopeni military airport was built around 1940 and initially intended as a military training center. It was extensively used by the Luftwaffe in 1941 with units of the Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 and Jagdgeschwader 77 located there. The Romanian Grupul 6 Vânătoare also used the airport between June and August 1941. The base was further ...
In terms of passenger traffic, Cluj Airport is the second busiest airport in Romania, after Bucharest Henri Coandă, handling 3.24 million passengers in 2023. Its size and location (on the European route E576 and close to the A3 Transylvania Motorway) make it the most important airport in the historical region of Transylvania.
Until 2012 there was also another airport which is no longer used, except for charter/private flights: Aurel Vlaicu International Airport is situated only 8 km north of the Bucharest city centre and is accessible by STB buses 100, 131, 330, 335, tram line 5 (temporarily closed, replaced by 605) and taxi.