Henri Coanda airport ranks 4th in its category by traffic growth in May

Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Airport (Otopeni) was ranked fourth according to traffic growth in May 2016, in the 5-10 million passengers/year category, with 935,940 passengers and 9,204 landings and departures.

The airport that ranked first in the 5-10 million passengers/year category was Berlin Schoenefeld, followed by Larnaca (Cyprus), and Ibiza (Spain). Porto Airport was ranked 5^th.

In May 2016, the number of passengers transiting the Henri Coanda Airport increased by 18.9 percent year-on-year. The trend places Romania’s busiest international airport above the average European growth rate of 3.6 percent.

The Henri Coanda Airport also recoded an above-average increase of aircraft departures and landings, of 11.5 percent year-on-year. The European average stands at 3.1 percent.

In the category of airports with a traffic lower than 5 million passengers/year, Oradea International Airport ranked first in terms of passenger traffic growth, followed by Palanga International Airport (Lithuania), Kharkiv International Airport (Ukraine), Ohrid Airport (Macedonia) and Burgas Airport (Bulgaria).

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In the 10-25 million passengers/year category, Gran Canaria Airport (Spain), was ranked first by passenger traffic growth, followed by Cologne Bonn Airport (Germany), Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion’s Airport and Malaga Malaga–Costa del Sol Airport in southern Spain.

Georgeta Gheorghe