Bucharest Airports

Trying to be objective about Baneasa Airport

by Craig Turp July 6, 2010 Bucharest

 Deserving of a holiday, Bucharest Life and family set off last week for the sun, knowing full well that the joys of a week’s lounging around doing bugger all (isn’t that just a normal week? – Ed) would be tempered by the horrors of using Bucharest’s Baneasa Airport. We have banged on about Baneasa and [...]

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New Bucharest airport cancelled: Did it ever really need one?

by Craig Turp April 21, 2010 Bucharest

 Bucharest will not be getting a new airport anytime soon, according to this report published by a local news agency yesterday. While news that the Romanian government had cancelled yet another major infrastructure project came as no surprise at all (last week the government was embarrassed into admitting that a major deal to build part [...]

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Elena’s less than steamy ‘stranded tourist in Romania’ hotline

by Craig Turp April 19, 2010 Bucharest

 Romania’s Minister of Tourism, Elena Udrea, this morning announced the opening of a telephone hotline for foreign visitors stranded in Romania by the closure of the country’s airspace. Apparently, cheap hotel rooms will be made available. Commendable. (You can make up and insert your own joke about Elena Udrea, telephone hotlines and cheap hotel rooms [...]

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Bucharest Otopeni Airport Taxis (Part 2: Getting to town)

by Craig Turp February 15, 2010 Bucharest

 As we discovered on Saturday morning, the difference between getting a taxi at Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport now and getting one before the rules changed on February 1st is that there is no difference. At least not in any real sense. The information we publish about arriving at Bucharest’s airports in Bucharest In Your Pocket and [...]

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Bucharest Otopeni Airport Taxis (Part 1: To the airport)

by Craig Turp February 12, 2010 Bucharest

 Our first trip since the new rules and regulations regarding taxis to and from Otopeni Airport were introduced on February 1st, allegedly for our convenience. Since that date, regular Bucharest taxis have been forbidden from entering Otopeni’s car parks, where they used to wait for clients who had ordered them (clients eager to avoid the [...]

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Bad News Day

by Craig Turp January 11, 2010 Bucharest

 Two snippets of information reach us today, neither of which is much good… Firstly, after just six months, Aer Lingus is closing its Bucharest – London Gatwick route as part of a wider set of cutbacks in routes served from Gatwick (eleven routes in all are being cut). No real surprise, as whenever we flew [...]

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Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport: Free of Duty Free

by Craig Turp August 10, 2009 Bucharest

 Got this email this morning… I reproduce it as sent. Hi Craig, I don’t have your direct e-mail address, so I’m writing via the general office one. Future editions of Bucharest IYP should warn unwary travellers departing from Otopeni/Henri Coanda Airport that there is no Duty Free Shopping at the airport. After passing immigration & [...]

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