Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport

Brașov-Ghimbav International Airport is Romania's newest commercial airport and the principal air gateway to the country's central Transylvania region, opened in June 2023 as the first greenfield civilian airport built in Romania in the post-communist era. Located in Ghimbav on the western edge of Brașov at 1,740 ft (530 m) elevation beneath the Bucegi and Piatra Craiului mountain ranges, the airport serves a catchment centred on Brașov, Sibiu, Sfântu Gheorghe, and the broader Prahova and Covasna counties — a region of roughly two million people that had long been the largest European city cluster without a scheduled commercial airport. It is a single project-company airport owned by the Brașov County Council. The airport handles 13 routes across 12 destinations through 8 airlines. Wizz Air is the leading carrier, operating the largest base of aircraft and serving destinations across Western Europe including London Luton, Dortmund, Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Brussels Charleroi, and Paris Beauvais. Ryanair, Dan Air, Aegean, and Air Serbia also operate from GHV, and the network has expanded rapidly quarter-over-quarter since opening. The airport primarily functions as a low-cost leisure and Romanian-diaspora hub serving labor markets in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the UK; it has measurably redistributed traffic away from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) for central-Romanian travelers. The single concrete runway 03/21 measures 9,252 ft (2,820 m), sufficient for all narrow-body operations and capable of handling widebodies for future growth. The modern terminal building has a declared annual capacity of roughly 1 to 2 million passengers with expansion provision for 3 million. The airport's proximity to Brașov's historic Saxon old town, Bran Castle (popularly associated with Dracula), and the Poiana Brașov ski resort has made it a catalyst for regional tourism growth, and it is directly accessible from the DN1/E60 Bucharest–Brașov highway.