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An airport rail link service to the main railway station, Gara de Nord (Bucharest North), runs from the Airport railway station located near the parking lot of the Arrivals hall. [131] As of August 2021, the trains, alternately operated by CFR and TFC depart every 40 minutes, seven days a week.
[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.
Henri Coandă International Airport, located north of the Bucharest metropolitan area, in the town of Otopeni, Ilfov. Currently the airport has one terminal divided into three inter-connected buildings (International Departures Hall, International Arrivals Hall and the Domestic Flights Hall – at the ground level of the Arrivals Hall).
Rank Airport City Code (IATA/ICAO) Passengers [3] Annual change Rank change 1. Henri Coandă International Airport: Bucharest: OTP/LROP: 12,591,905: 82.7%: 2. Cluj Avram Iancu International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport: Los Angeles, California, United States LAX/KLAX 556,913 9.9% 7. Charlotte Douglas International Airport: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States CLT/KCLT 505,589 2 2.8% 8. Miami International Airport: Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States MIA/KMIA 458,478 1 18.2% 9. John F. Kennedy International Airport
The new airport is planned to be constructed on an area of up to 600 hectares (1,500 acres), equipped with at least two terminals and have a capacity of around 30 million passengers p/a, supporting Bucharest Otopeni Airport as an alternative international airport both in terms of passenger and freight operations.
The Romanian Army took an interest in aviation from the earliest days, facilitating the construction of the Vlaicu I in 1910. The next year, the Army formed the Aviation Group, which over the next few years was equipped with locally manufactured Farman biplanes under license and also acquired two Blériot monoplanes, several Bristol-Coandă monoplanes and two Morane Type F monoplanes.
The unit was initially established in 1948, but restructured in 1978. It has its overall headquarters at Aurel Vlaicu International Airport and operates five territorial flights in Bucharest, Caransebeș, Cluj-Napoca, Iași and Tulcea. The current General Inspector is General de flotilă aeriană Cătălin-Paul Dache.