01.04.2024

2023 air traffic neared the 2019 level. The number of flights in 2023 was just 0.3% lower than in 2019, in line with Eurocontrol data, which shows air traffic is similar to the pre-pandemic level. more

01.27.2023

Romania’s airports reported a total 21 million passengers for 2022, 87.53% more than in 2021 and almost threefold more than in 2020, in line with data from the Romanian Airports Association, or AAR. more

04.08.2022

Jozsef Varadi, CEO of Wizz Air, the biggest airline in Romania by passenger numbers, projects a 9.4 million passenger traffic in Romania in the next 12 months, namely April 2022-March 2023, almost more

12.30.2021

Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Airport, the country's largest airport, served almost 6.8 million passengers this year, 54% more than the 4.4 million passengers of last year, according to the data the company more

12.06.2021

Air passenger transport plunged by 73.3% in 2020 across the European Union, with Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Greece and Romania reporting the lowest decreases among the 27 EU member states, ranging between more

02.05.2021

Wizz Air, the largest airline in Romania by number of passengers, saw a 70% decline in the number of passengers carried to and from the country in 2020 to merely 3 million compared with more than 9 more

03.09.2020

Romania's government has decided to shut down all air traffic to and from Italy for two weeks starting Monday in an attempt to limit the spread of the coronavirus, interior minister Marcel Vela said more

03.09.2020

London, Vienna and Paris were the top destinations for passengers flying from the Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Airport last year, airport website data show. more

03.25.2019

Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Airport in Bucharest increased traffic only 8% to 13.8 million passengers in 2018 over 2017 and placed close to the bottom of the ranking by growth in the region. more

10.05.2017

Blue Air, the largest Romanian privately-held airline saw a 46% increase in passenger traffic in the first three quarters of this year on the year-ago period. more

02.20.2017

Bucharest's two airports, the Henri Coanda (Otopeni) and the Aurel Vlaicu (Baneasa) airports, were included by Airports Council International – Europe in a European ranking of airports seeing the more

09.26.2016

Air traffic on Bucharest's two airports, Henri Coanda (Otopeni) and Aurel Vlaicu (Baneasa), rose 16.5% on the year in the first eight months of 2016, to 7.14 million passengers. more

07.08.2016

Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest (AIHCB) ranks fourth among European airports which reported the highest increases in passenger traffic in May 2016, according to Airports Council more

08.24.2015

Romanian air traffic controllers threaten to stop work on September 1 unless their demands are met, saying issues at hand are "life and death" and concern air passenger safety. more

07.27.2015

Air traffic on Bucharest's two airports rose 12.58% on the year in the first half of 2015, to 4.21 million passengers, the Bucharest Airport Company said Monday. more

07.15.2015

Seventeen flights on Bucharest's international airport Henri Coanda will be affected by a two-hour strike among ROMATSA air traffic controllers Wednesday, the airport announced. more

05.11.2015

The Henri Coanda Bucuresti International Airport places third in the Airports Council International-Europe ranking of airports seeing the highest increase in air traffic in the first quarter of 2015, more

02.17.2015

Low-cost airline Blue Air, controlled by Romanian entrepreneurs, expects to carry 1.6 million passengers this year, up around 6.7% on the year. more

11.12.2013

Romania had over 10 million flight passengers last year from just 2 million in 1996, and Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Otopeni international airport will have over 7 million passengers this year, David more