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Infrastructure: Air traffic values grow by 20% at Henri Coanda Airport
The National Airport Company Bucharest (CNAB) doubled the number of border crossing booths and security control lines to process all passengers at Henri Coanda Airport terminals, but warns that average waiting time went up to 35 minutes, in the context of the spectacular increase of the number of flights in the departure area.
According to a CNAB press release, the values of air traffic at Henri Coanda Airport have grown by over 20% compared to the same period of 2016 and by about 50% compared to 2015.
CNAB will continue the implementation of new methods meant to manage traffic at peak hours, measures that risk to prove inefficient in case other flights are scheduled at the same time.
By mid May, CNAB announced that Bucharest airports - Henri Coanda and Aurel Vlaicu - were included by Airports Council International-Europe in the European top 5 of airports which have recorded the highest air traffic increase in Q1, 2017.
“At airport category with 5-10 million passengers/year, Henri Coanda Airport, which had an increase of 21.4% air traffic increase, ranked 5th, after Reykjavik-Keflavik (Iceland), Kiev, Larnaca (Cyprus) and Malta. Baneasa Airport ranks first, for under 5 million passengers category, being followed by Nis (Serbia), Oradea, Mykonos (Greece), Zadar (Croatia),” CNAB announced.
CNAB recorded, in the first three months of 2017, an air traffic of 2.6 million passengers and 28,249 aircraft movements at Henri Coanda and Aurel Vlaicu airports.
“The evolution of the number of passengers on the two airports of CNAB significantly advances the general tendency of 6.9%, recorded at European level. On the two Bucharest airports there was also an increase of the number of aircraft movements, exceeding the European trend of 3%.In the first 8 months of 2016, aircraft movements on Bucharest airports grew by 8.6% compared to the same period of 2015,” CNAB showed.
CNAB was set up by the merger between Henri Coanda International Airport National Company and Aurel Vlaicu International Airport Bucharest Baneasa.
CNAB began its activity on February 5, 2010. The social capital is 143,772,150 lei. The company has 80% shares held by the Romanian state, represented by the Transport Ministry and 20% shares held by Property Fund.