Henri Coandă International Airport

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The Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport ( IATA: OTP, ICAO: LROP; Rumanian Henri Coandă Aeroportul iNTernational Bucureşti. ) Is before Baneasa the larger of the two international airports of the Romanian capital Bucharest. He is the main airport of the country and serves as a hub for the national carrier TAROM.

History

The airport dates back to a 1940 opened airbase of the Luftwaffe. After the end of World War II, the Romanian Air Force took over in 1944 was extended to 1200 m airstrip. From 1965 worked on the reconstruction of the military airfield to a civil airport. For this purpose, the sheet was 08 /26 extended to 3500 m and from 1968 conducted the first international flights. The terminal for up to 1.2 million passengers was opened on 13 April 1970 and still serves as an international arrival terminal. 1987, built at a distance of only 1100 m parallel runway 08L/26R was put into operation.

In May 2004, the airport after aviation pioneer Henri Marie Coandă and developers named. In March 2011, a new finger dock was put into operation.

In April 2012, covered all scheduled flights that were previously handled at the smaller airport Baneasa, according to Otopeni, Baneasa because as of this date only serves the business travel.

Terminal building

The airport has one terminal for all domestic routes and international flights. It has 24 gates, 14 of which are equipped with passenger boarding bridges.

Airlines and destinations

Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport is the home of the indigenous TAROM, which is also the most active airlines at the airport. You through intra-European and domestic flights. Moreover operate various other European airlines. Intercontinental connections exist only to northern Africa (eg Tunisia) and the Middle East. A connection to North America (New York) was offered by Delta Airlines in 2008, set back a few months after the beginning though.

Transport links

Bus: There are two express bus routes to the city center, line 780 and line 783 Both lines connect the Otopeni Airport with the airport Baneasa. From there, the line runs 780 to Gara de Nord, the line 783 of the most important places in the city center, including Piata Charles de Gaulle, Piata Victoriei, Piata Romana, Piata Universitatii, to Unirii Square. A ticket for two journeys costs 8 Lei (2011, equivalent to about 1.80 euros ). The bus stop is located on the ground floor of the airport building, one floor below the arrival.

Car: The airport is located 20 km north of downtown. The national road DN1 there leads; to a Highway ( A3) has been built since 2004.

Taxi: From the airport taxi fixed prices are a company ( "Fly" ) to the city center (2008: 3,30 lei = 1 euro per km, Distance from the center about 20 km). It also offer other taxis their services, however, these are usually much more expensive (eg 8 lei per km ) or take fixed prices (2007: 60-80 EUR ). Referred to in the negotiations with the taxi drivers Prices are Euro amounts in the rule.