According to the ACI-Europe ranking, the airports in Romania recorded an average growth in passenger traffic of 11.1% in September 2025 compared with September 2024, which puts the country on the fourth place behind Slovakia, Poland and Slovenia.
“The trend of the number of passengers in Romania is significantly higher than the overall European trend, which shows how dynamic airports in the country are and how interested Romanians are in air transportation (…),” said Bogdan Mandrescu, chairman of the Romanian airports association AAR.
In the ACI-Europe ranking, Bucharest Baneasa International Airport ranks third in the under one million passengers per year category, behind Anvers (Belgium) and Hatay (Türkiye). Bucharest Baneasa witnessed a record growth of 136.7% in air traffic.
In the large airport category (10 to 25 million passengers a year), the average growth in passenger traffic in Europe was 4.6%, while Bucharest’s Henri Coanda International Airport saw a growth rate of 11.3% September 2025 to September 2024.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)