“The airport will be able to process 5 million people with its new 7,200 square meter terminal expansion. We will complete the investment we started last year this May,” David Ciceo, chief executive officer of the airport in Cluj-Napoca and chairman of AAR, told ZF.
The project entailed expanding the departure terminal by 7,200 square meters, which means two new gates for external flights and one for internal flights, as well as expanding the aircraft parking area by 9,000 square meters. The total investment was put at RON365 million, RON129 million of which EU funds, according to public data.
The Cluj-Napoca airport will see a new airline start offering flights this year, Swiss Air, which will connect the city with Zurich. The airlines already operating on it are Ryanair, Wizz Air, Tarom, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and HiSky.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)