Sibiu International Airport
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The Sibiu International Airport is the commercial airport in the Romanian city Sibiu and the only civilian airport in southern Transylvania.
History
After the local elections in 2004, which freed the candidate of the Democratic German Forum in Romania, Martin Bottesch into office, was first thinking about a large-scale expansion of the airport. This was until then indeed already regularly in use, however, was in a dilapidated state. Since the end of communism, no significant modernization work more had taken place. The planned accession of Romania to the EU in 2007 and the economic growth of the city since 2000, the plans won again on weight. In early 2005, finally summarized the County Council and the City of Sibiu Sibiu the decision to airport expansion.
The district administration drove the expansion, including with the support of the European Investment Bank, vigorously. The project was made, however, only through the commitment of Sibiu City to pay half of the costs, the funds from the county budget would not have been sufficient. The Romanian government also brought a 40 million lei. However, the latter was not willing to secure the loan with the European Investment Bank. City and county were forced again to take in the spring of 2007 a loan of 140 million lei in order not to let stalled the work begun in 2006.
A modern terminal (including an automatic baggage handling system from Siemens) according to the state, a new control tower, fire station (actually a complete infrastructure ) and the expansion of the parking could be completed in September 2007. The commissioning of the new airstrip in November 2007. The old runway was renewed until May 2008. Further work on the old advance or at the old terminal building were also completed by mid-2008. The landing of all aircraft classes is possible since up to and including the Boeing 737-800. The most important feature of the since 2000 greatly improved the city's infrastructure, the new airport contributes significantly to further the attractiveness of the site.
End of August 2010 it is in the extended runway, only two years after its completion, come to larger landslides due to an inadequate drainage system. Air traffic was diverted at this time according to Targu Mures and Cluj. In the meantime, has stabilized the whole and the runway was shortened from 3050m to 2630m. Now, on the question whether the German space construction company Max Bögl, or their local subcontractors IPTANA have fudged.
The airport currently has a capacity of 1 million passengers per year, per hour can 300 people be dispatched. The signage in the terminal buildings is trilingual (Romanian, English, German ).
Location and Transport
The airport is located 3 km west of the city center of Sibiu on the exit road to Alba Iulia ( National Road 1 or E68 ).
Airlines and destinations
Sibiu is currently served by Austrian Airlines, Blue Air, Carpatair, Lufthansa and TAROM. Direct daily flights are made, for example, to Vienna. Furthermore, there are several daily connections to Munich and Bucharest are also offered regularly Flights to Târgu Mureş, Antalya and Madrid.