Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport

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The Timişoara Airport (Romanian: Aeroportul iNTernational Traian Vuia ) is an international airport northeast of the city of Timişoara Romanian. He is after the two airports of Bucharest, Romania 's third largest airport.

The airport is named after the Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer Traian Vuia ( 1872-1950 ). This designed, built and flew in 1906, the first self-propelled aircraft heavier than air in Europe.

History

1935, the first Romanian airfield was built close to the current location in Mosnita Veche. In 1960, the first administrative building of the airport was built at its present location near the village Ghiroda. 1964, the station building was handed over for domestic flights of its determination.

Between 1975 and 1980 the start and runway was extended from 2500 to 3500, and taken to the International Terminal, the control tower, the VIP lounge and an office building in operation. In the years between 1980 and 1990 the airline for domestic flights ( to Bucharest and Constanta ) and also for international flights was added (to and from Frankfurt, New York and Chicago).

A warehouse for air cargo was opened in 1998. In 2002, the departure lounge for domestic flights was modernized. Since 2003, the airport was named after Train Vuia. Also in 2003, took a terminal for transit traffic to its operation, and the airport has developed into an air transport hub, the city also joined in Romania with airports in Italy and Germany.

2004, the international terminal was modernized and expanded. Followed in 2005 by a feasibility study for the development of the airport in the years 2006 to 2015. Due to the increasing passenger traffic through the apron area was extended in 2006 and set up a new parking lot. Followed in 2007 by an expansion of the international terminal. In 2008, the airport had nearly a million passengers and moved 1950 tons of cargo.

Airlines and destinations

Timişoara is the home airport of Carpatair. With this airline Timişoara is with Ancona, Arad, Athens, Bacau, Bari, Bologna, Budapest, Bucharest - Otopeni, Chisinau, Craiova, Chernivtsi, Florence, Sibiu, Iasi, Cluj, Constanta, Lemberg, Milan, Odessa, Rome, Stuttgart, Suceava, Turin, Venice, Verona and connected.

In addition, the Hungarian Wizz Air since 2009, maintains a base at the airport. 2009, there were links to Barcelona, ​​Dortmund, Forli, London, Milan, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Venice and Valencia.

Austrian Airlines binds to the city of Vienna, the Lufthansa flies from here to Munich and Bucharest Tarom operates.