Henri Coandă International Airport

The two Bucharest-based airports recorded a total number of 13.85 million passengers and 137,784 aircraft movements (landings and take-offs), informs the National Company Bucharest Airports (CNAB) on Wednesday in a release.

UEFA representatives have paid their third visit to Bucharest to find out about the latest developments in Romania's preparations for hosting EURO 2020.

Irish low cost air carrier Ryanair is embellishing its 2016 summer flight schedule with five new routes from Athens to Bucharest, Corfu, Malta, Bologna and Mykonos as well as more flights to Thessaloniki, Rhodes and Santorini.

Dozens of flights, takeoffs and landings were delayed on Wednesday at Bucharest's Henri Coanda International Airport after air traffic controllers went on strike for two hours.

AGERPRES correspondent Doroteea Purcarea reports: Prime Minister Victor Ponta met the CEO of Qatar Airways on Sunday, and subsequently announced he submitted a call for investments in a package comprising the Otopeni Airport near Bucharest and the Romanian airline TAROM.

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The number of passengers having transited through the airports close to the Romanian capital city saw a 15.5 per cent increase in Q1 this year, as compared with the same interval of last year, with the Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport and the Bucharest Baneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport scoring together a record traffic of 1,809,228 passengers, the Bucharest National Airport

The low-cost Hungarian airline Wizz Air will start flying to five new destinations from Bulgaria's Sofia Airport.

From the middle of September Wizz Air will start operating flights from Sofia to Bari, Cologne, Geneva, Munich and Naples, daily Dnevnik reports.

The flights to Bari and Cologne will start on September 14 and will be operated twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays.

Henri Coanda Bucharest International Airport has been ranked at no. 4 by Airports Council International-Europe in the European rankings of airports that recorded the highest increase in air traffic in 2014, within the category of airports that saw between 5 and 10 million passengers.

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Air traffic is taking place under winter conditions on Bucharest airports, but some flights may record delays of some 30 minutes for take-off, due to defrosting the aircraft, and only in some cases the delays are longer than one hour, National Company Bucharest Airports (CNAB) informs on Tuesday.

Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport ranked last year on the 44th place in the EU in terms of number of passengers transiting it annually, according to the data released on Thursday by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat).