Cluj-Napoca International Airport
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Cluj-Napoca International Airport (IATA airport code: CLJ) is the third largest airport in Romania. The airport is situated outside the Cluj-Napoca city area, in an ex-municipality (Someşeni) that became a neighbourhood in the outskirts of the town after 1989.
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Access to the city
Cluj-Napoca can be reached from Someşeni by RATUC bus number 8, or by taxi. The airport is 20-30 km from the Bucharest - Budapest motorway(currently under construction) which will run west of the city.
Airlines
Cluj-Napoca is an important airport for Romania, served by the following airlines.
- TAROM - Romania
- Austrian (TAROM codeshare) - Austria
- Alitalia (TAROM codeshare) - Italy
- Carpatair - Romania
- Clubair - Romania
Destinations
Cluj-Napoca International Airport offers direct scheduled flights to Bucharest, Timişoara, Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Milan, Munich and Bologna and to Ancona, Bergamo, Florence, Munich, Rome, Stuttgart, Treviso, and Verona by flights with a single stop at Timişoara.
Rent a Car
The airport offers car rental from Europcar / Jettour, Avis, Budget, and Hertz (on call from Oradea).
Statistics
In 2002, 4,379 flights landed at Cluj-Napoca (+6.1% from the previous year), with 130,267 passengers (+22%). Cargo activity was 90.7 tonnes of merchandise (+37%) and 15.6 metric tons of postal mail (+126.1%). All of these percentage increases were the greatest of any international airport in Romania, except for the number of flights, where Timişoara experienced 31.3% growth. The system of marking lights is the most modern and efficient in Romania. Length of runway: 1850m; width: 30m concrete with 75m asphalt.