Four bids were submitted for rehabilitation works, which include runway and boarding platform upgrades. Local authorities selected the association between PORR Construct SRL and Geiger Transilvania SRL as the winning bidder.

A contract will be signed if the other bidders don’t contest the result within ten days.

The airport has eight check-in counters, a 2,800 sqm terminal and can serve 400 passengers an hour, or 800,000 passengers a year.

The airport has not functioned since November 2016, when airline Wizz Air moved all its flights to the airport in Cluj-Napoca because of the degraded runway.