Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport

Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport is Romania's busiest airport and the dominant aviation gateway to Southeastern Europe's second-largest country by population, serving 45 airlines on 221 routes to 127 nonstop destinations. Located in Otopeni, 16.5 km (10.3 mi) north of central Bucharest at an elevation of 314 ft (96 m), the airport is named for Henri Coandă, the Romanian aerodynamicist and inventor credited with building the first jet-propelled aircraft in 1910 and with the discovery of the Coandă Effect that underlies modern high-lift wing design. OTP serves as the primary hub for TAROM, Romania's flag carrier, and as the largest operating base on Wizz Air's entire network — the Hungarian low-cost giant operates more than a dozen based aircraft from Bucharest and uses OTP as a major pivot for Central and Eastern European traffic. Ryanair, Blue Air (in its latter period), HiSky, Animawings, and a dense layer of legacy European carriers including Lufthansa, KLM, Turkish Airlines, and Air France make OTP one of the most low-cost-heavy major capital airports in Europe. Since Romania's accession to the Schengen Area's air and maritime borders in March 2024, passenger flows between Bucharest and other Schengen airports no longer require border checks, reshaping the terminal's immigration and gate allocation logic. OTP operates two parallel asphalt runways — 08L/26R and 08R/26L, each 11,484 ft (3,500 m) long and 148 ft (45 m) wide — supporting independent dual operations. The terminal is organized into a combined departures/arrivals building with a Schengen and non-Schengen split. A new passenger terminal and a second fully independent airport — OTP 2, planned adjacent to the existing site — are under active feasibility study to accommodate continued growth past 20 million annual passengers. Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu Airport (BBU), the city's secondary field, has no scheduled commercial service, making OTP the singular Bucharest gateway.