Airports in Romania
Romania has a well-developed airport infrastructure compared to other countries in Eastern Europe, but still underdeveloped compared to Western countries standards. There are 16 commercial airports in service today, most of them opened for international traffic. Five of the airports (OTP, BBU, TSR, CND, SBZ) have runways of over 3,000 m in length and are capable of handling wide-body aircraft. Three of the airports (BCM, CRA, SUJ) have runways of 2,500 m in length, while the rest of them have runways of 1,800 to 2,400 m.
In 2011, the air traffic reached 10.7 million passengers, 5.1% more than the previous year when there were 10.2 million people flying by plane.
| Rank | Airport | City | Code (IATA/ICAO) |
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Henri Coandă International Airport | Bucharest | OTP/LROP | 4,480,765 | 4,802,510 | 5,049,443 | 5.1% |
| 2. | Aurel Vlaicu International Airport | Bucharest | BBU/LROB | 1,974,337 | 1,881,509 | 2,398,911 | 27.5% |
| 3. | Traian Vuia International Airport | Timişoara | TSR/LRTR | 991,737 | 1,136,064 | 1,202,925 | 5.9% |
| 4. | Cluj-Napoca International Airport | Cluj-Napoca | CLJ/LRCL | 834,400 | 1,028,907 | 1,004,927 | 2.3% |
| 5. | George Enescu International Airport | Bacău | BCM/LRBC | 195,772 | 240,735 | 318,000 | 32.1% |
| 6. | Transilvania Târgu Mureş Airport | Târgu Mureş | TGM/LRTM | 84,062 | 74,353 | 257,303 | 246% |
| 7. | Iaşi International Airport | Iaşi | IAS/LRIA | 148,538 | 159,615 | 184,225 | 15.4% |
| 8. | Sibiu International Airport | Sibiu | SBZ/LRSB | 148,527 | 198,753 | 176,908 | 11% |
| 9. | Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport | Constanţa | CND/LRCK | 68,690 | 74,587 | 73,713 | 1,1% |
| 10. | Oradea International Airport | Oradea | OMR/LROD | 41,692 | 36,477 | 12.5% | |
| 11. | Ştefan cel Mare Suceava Airport | Suceava | SCV/LRSV | 32,561 | 34,437 | 27,208 | 20.9% |
| 12. | Craiova International Airport | Craiova | CRA/LRCV | 15,130 | 23,629 | 56.1% | |
| 13. | Satu Mare International Airport | Satu Mare | SUJ/LRSM | 11,101 | 18,859 | 22,630 | 20% |
| 14. | Baia Mare International Airport | Baia Mare | BAY/LRBM | 23,818 | 19,020 | 20.1% | |
| 15. | Arad International Airport | Arad | ARW/LRAR | 44,743 | 8,359 | 1,124 | 86.5% |
| 16. | "Delta Dunarii" Tulcea Airport | Tulcea | TCE/LRTC | 854 | 427 | 50% |
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