Constanța becomes more interesting for airlines

With 78,000 passengers last year, Mihail Kogălniceanu airport, located close to the Romanian seaside, could record a traffic increase this year after Carpatair airline has announced it will introduce three flights per week to Istanbul, after Ryanair, Blue Air and Air Berlin have recently introduced new flights departing from this airport. However, the traffic of the airport in Constanța is much lower than that reported by airports on the Greek or Turkish seaside. While the Kogălniceanu airport attracts less than a hundred thousand tourists a year, foreign airports located next to travel resorts receive millions of tourists per year. In the first four months of this year, the Constanța airport had a traffic of 16,075 passengers, which compares with 14,387 in the similar period of last year, according to company officials. Carpatair will introduce flights to Istanbul from Constanța starting June 15.