Английская Википедия:Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport

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Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport (Шаблон:Lang-ro, IATA: GHV, ICAO: LRBV) is an airport located in Ghimbav, near Brașov, Romania, by the future A3 motorway. It is the first airport to be built in Romania in the last 50 years, and the 17th commercial airport in the country. Flights commenced on 15 June 2023.

History

Planning

The project has been widely supported by the local population and some businesses in the area have announced plans to switch to air freight services. It is expected that the airport will create 4,000 jobs and reach 1 million passengers in 8 years, with a further 6,000 jobs being generated indirectly. Planned costs of the project were originally estimated at €87 million.

In 2006, the Romanian State Domain Agency transferred 110 hectares of land to Brașov County. Intelcan Canada was to develop and build the airport in coordination with Brașov, Harghita, and Covasna counties as well as the Ghimbav city. The airport's charter was officially signed on 14 November 2005. Intelcan inaugurated the construction of the airport on 15 April 2008. The initial target for completion was twenty-four to thirty months. However, due to legal matters and a lack of funds, the construction works had stopped and Intelcan left the project, being replaced by the local authorities.

Construction

On 18 November 2012, the Brașov County authorities signed a €12.7 million (VAT excluded) contract with Vectra Service, a local construction company, for building the runway. Eventually, construction of the airport restarted in April 2013 with the works at the Шаблон:Convert runway. On 3 October 2014, the runway was officially inaugurated.

The contract for the construction of the main terminal building, with a total area of Шаблон:Convert, was awarded to the Romanian contractor Bog'Art Bucharest and was signed on 21 August 2019. Construction works for the passenger terminal started on 17 March 2020 and were completed by March 2021.

The construction works on the entire site were finally completed in May 2023, with the total costs raising to approximately €140 million.

Air traffic control is provided by a remote virtual tower operated from Шаблон:Cvt away, at Arad International Airport.

The national railway carrier CFR announced a feasibility study for the construction of an 8-km rail connection from the airport to the Brașov railway station. The study was contracted in September 2020 and the rail line will be financed from the Next Generation EU recovery fund. The total cost of this investment was estimated at €300 million.

Opening

In the first year of operations, the airport is expected to service 300,000 passengers. It is expected that the traffic at the airport will reach one million passengers by 2026, and the construction of a second terminal, or more likely an extension of the already existing building, is envisioned for 2027–2033.

The airport opened on June 15, 2023. The first flight was a TAROM flight from Bucharest, operated by a Boeing 737-700 registered YR-BGG (TAROM's retrojet) which touched down at 08:10 in the morning. The first international flight was Dan Air flight 234 from Stuttgart, operated by an Airbus A320 registered YR-DSE.

Operations

Since the airport started operating, the Romanian authority for air traffic control is only allowing flights on the site between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Due to this situation, the carriers operating at the airport have been rerouting their flights scheduled outside these working hours to other airports, such as Bucharest or Sibiu. From January 2024, the airport was set to switch to a 16-hour operating schedule, but since the heavy economic losses, they have decided to maximize their operations under current timetable.

The new Romanian airline Dan Air has been the most active carrier upon the airport's opening, with a large number of routes served, yet, from November 2023, they decided to move all their flights to the Bacău airport, due to the tight operating schedule.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate flights at Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport: Шаблон:Airport-dest-list

Statistics

Monthly traffic figures (2023)

Month	2023	YTD
January
February
March
April
May
June	4,358	4,358
July	9,913	14,271
August	16,486	30,757
September	17,907	48,664
October	13,253	61,917
November	9,819	71,736
December	7,790	79,526

See also

• Aviation in Romania
• Transport in Romania
• List of airports in Europe

External links

• Official website
• Brașov County Council official website