{"id":122308,"date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/over-16-million-passengers-transited-romanian-airports-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:11:47","slug":"over-16-million-passengers-transited-romanian-airports-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/over-16-million-passengers-transited-romanian-airports-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 16 million passengers transited Romanian airports in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The number of passengers who transited Romanian airports increased last year by 23.5%, reaching 16.39 million passengers, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Henri Coanda International Airport recorded a traffic of 10.98 million passengers in 2016, representing 67% of the total passengers registered in Romania.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In second place among airports is Cluj-Napoca, with 1.88 million passengers (11.5%), and in third place is Traian Vuia Airport in Timisoara, with 1.16 million passengers (7.1%).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Out of the total, international transport has a share of 89.1%, respectively 14.6 million passengers, the rest being passengers on domestic flights.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the international passenger transport segment, Henri Coanda Airport has a share of 69.2%, with 10.1 million passengers, followed by Cluj-Napoca with 10.8% and Traian Vuia with 6.3%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the domestic transport sector, Otopeni Airport has a share of 48.9%, followed by Cluj-Napoca with 16.8% and Traian Vuia with 13%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Freight traffic at Romanian airports recorded a much lower growth rate than passenger traffic, 9.7%, from 36,600 tons in 2015 to 40,100 tons in 2016.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Henri Coanda Airport has a market share of 85% in this segment, followed by Traian Vuia with 9.7% and Cluj-Napoca with 2.6%.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economica.net\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Economica<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many passengers used Romanian airports in 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Romanian airports were transited by 16.39 million passengers, marking a 23.5% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is the busiest airport in Romania?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Henri Coanda International Airport is the busiest, handling 10.98 million passengers in 2016, which accounts for 67% of the country&#8217;s total air traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the growth in air freight traffic in 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Air freight traffic grew by 9.7% in 2016, increasing from 36,600 tons in 2015 to 40,100 tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of passengers who transited Romanian airports increased last year by 23.5%, reaching 16.39 million passengers, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Henri Coanda International Airport recorded a traffic of 10.98 million passengers in 2016, representing 67% of the total passengers registered in Romania. In second place among airports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-122308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122308"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=122308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}