PHOTOS: Airport extension will help travel tens of thousands of Hungarians

Nagyvárad international airport’s passenger capacity Nagyvárad (Oradea, Romania) will double thanks to an extension project funded by the Romanian government and the European Union. Nagyvárad is a couple of kilometres from the Romanian-Hungarian border and only 70 kilometres Southeast of Hungary’s second-biggest city, Debrecen. The city’s Hungarian population exceeds 45 thousand, but there are additional thousands who live in the nearby villages.

According to iho.hu, the HUF 21 billion (EUR 56.27 million) airport development project includes a new passenger terminal and runway extensions. The ministry, the EU and the airport signed the contract in December 2022. The European Union and Romania’s government provides the money for the project.

The deadline to finish the extension is close: end-2023. Therefore, the management let the subcontractor work freely on the territory. That means the check-in will be in the old terminal and temporary containers.

Airport extension under way

Thanks to the project, the international airport of Nagyvárad will get a new building wing raising its area significantly from 2,925 sqm to 12,500 sqm. As a result, the check-in capacity of the airport will double from 400 to 800 per hour. Furthermore, roads and parking lots will be extended. Moreover, they will buy aircraft deicing equipment. According to the president of the Council of Bihar County, the project enables the airport to operate more flights.

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That might mean the International Airport of Debrecen, where development projects are also taking place, we wrote about them HERE, will get a competitor. The distance between them is less than 60 kilometres, and Debrecen is one of the bases of Hungary’s low-cost airline, Wizz Air. Meanwhile, Ryanair left Nagyvárad despite the favourable conditions the airport offered them. Here is how the new regional air travel hub will look:

Romania’s national airline, Tarom, plans to operate one or two flights to Bucharest from Nagyvárad daily. Furthermore, the airport expects Turkish and Egyptian charter flights, iho.hu added.