New Bucharest airport postponed indefinitely

The construction of a new airport in Bucharest was postponed indefinitely because of the lack of money. The Executive has not launched procedures for the feasibility study yet, two years after the government approved the investment. In August 2008, the former government decided the new airport was a “priority work for the development of infrastructure in transport”, due to the increased air traffic.
According to the government decision, the execution of works program was to be established based on a feasibility study, which would indicate the location of the new airport, technical characteristics and the investment value.

A document of the Ministry of Transport dated March 2010 shows that two years after that decision the authorities have not begun the elaboration of the feasibility study yet.In 2008, at the moment of the adoption of the decision for the erection of the new airport, the government considered that the airport was to be located in the vicinity of Adunatii Copaceni, Giurgiu county, 20 km far from the Capital.
At the end of 2009, the present minister of transport, Radu Berceanu said the future airport should be built at Alexeni, near Urziceni, Ialomita county.

From the traffic analyses and provisions made by Eurocontrol in 2008, when the investment was approved, we can see that airport traffic will grow annually over 2008-2014 by 6.9%, the increase rate being higher in Bucharest reaching 20 million passengers in 2018.
Last year, Henri Coanda international airport in Otopeni, the largest airport in Romania, registered a traffic of 4.4 million passengers, on the drop by 11% compared to 2008, when the number of passengers was 5 million persons.

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