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Baneasa International Airport
Bucharest "Aurel Vlaicu" Airport (IATA: BBU), largely known as Băneasa is located in Băneasa district, at 8.5 km north of Bucharest, Romania. It was Bucharest's only airport until 1968, when the Otopeni Airport (today Henri Coandă International Airport) was built. Today it is the second airport in Romania in terms of air traffic and Bucharest's low-cost hub despite the fact that is located closer to the city center than the main international airport.
The airport is accessible by RATB buses 131, 335 and Airport Express 783, RATB tramway 5 and taxi. An extension of Line M4 of the Bucharest Metro to Aurel Vlaicu International, which will link it to the Main Train Station and the larger Henri Coandă International Airport, was approved in June 2006 and is currently in its planning stage.
At the moment Baneasa Airport it is used by small airline companies, specially low-cost like Blue Air which operates flights towards: Paris, Lyon, Nisa, Madrid, Maastricht, Verona, Frankfurt, Valencia, Barcelona, Istanbul, Torino şi Roma. Except Blue Air there is also Sky Europe company which flies to Bratislava and My Air which links Bucharest with Milano, Venice and Napoli.
From as low as 20 to 30 passengers per month in 2001-2002, Baneasa Airport handled 119,000 passengers in 2004 and 2,005,694 passengers in 2009. The increase is one of the largest recorded during the history of modern air transport.
