Bucharest Henri Coanda Tender

ScopeBucharest Henri Coanda International Airport is Romanias busiest international airport located in Otopeni 16.5 km 10.3 mi north of Bucharests city centre. It is currently one of the three airports serving the capital of Romania. One of them is Aurel Vlaicu Airport which no longer serves scheduled passenger traffic and the other one Constantin Brncui Airport which is a planned international airport. The airport is named after Romanian flight pioneer Henri Coanda builder of Coanda-1910 aircraft and discoverer of the Coanda effect of fluidics. Prior to May 2004 the official name was Bucharest Otopeni International Airport Romanian Aeroportul Internaional Bucureti Otopeni. Henri Coanda International Airport serves as headquarters for TAROM the countrys national airline. It also serves as a base of operations for low-cost airlines Animawings Blue Air Ryanair and Wizz Air and charter airlines Air Bucharest and GullivAir. It is managed by The National Company Bucharest Airports S.A. Compania Naionala Aeroporturi Bucureti S.A.. The military section of the airport is used by the 90th Airlift Flotilla of the Romanian Air Force. The airports facilities consist of a single terminal with three main facilities colloquially referred to as Terminals the Departures HallTerminal the Arrivals HallTerminal and the Finger Terminal the airside concourse. A walkway with shops connects the departures and arrivals buildings. The airside concourse is organized in two domestic and international passengers flows. The entire terminal has 104 check-in desks 38 gates of which 14 are equipped with jetways and a total floor area of 86000 square metres 930000 sq ft. Beyond Phase III a new terminal building Henri Coanda 2 at the eastern end of the current location is envisaged. Henri Coanda 2 will be of a modular design consisting of four separate buildings each capable of handling 5 million passengers annually. Each module will be built as traffic demands dictate. By 2030 Terminal 2 alone should be able to handle the expected volume of 20 million passengers per year. The terminal will be directly connected to the A3 motorway and to the railway system. However the plans might get delayed due to funding problems. There is a chance however that if funds can be allocated in time the airport can open its new terminal by 2025. On 18 January 2021 it has been announced that the airport purchased all the land it needs in order to begin the expansion. However due to the COVID-19 pandemic work is set to begin in 2023.