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Dubrovnik Airport
Čilipi Airport
Zračna luka Dubrovnik/Čilipi
IATA: DBV – ICAO: LDDU Location of the airport in Croatia
DBVSummary Airport type Public Operator Dubrovnik Airport Ltd. Serves Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Herceg Novi Location Dubrovnik, Croatia Elevation AMSL 527 ft / 161 m Coordinates 42°33′41″N 018°16′06″E / 42.56139°N 18.26833°ECoordinates: 42°33′41″N 018°16′06″E / 42.56139°N 18.26833°E Website Runways Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 3,300 10,827 Concrete/Asphalt Croatian Aeronautical Information Publication[1] 
Interior view of the existing terminal
Dubrovnik Airport (IATA: DBV, ICAO: LDDU), also referred to as Čilipi Airport, is the international airport of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The airport is located approximately 15.5 km[1] (9.5 mi) from Dubrovnik city centre, near the suburb of Čilipi. The airport is the third largest in Croatia in terms of passenger numbers and with the longest runway; Dubrovnik Airlines is based at the airport.
Contents
Terminal, airlines and destinations
Dubrovnik Airport runwayA new 36,500 square metres (392,883 sq ft) terminal with four jet bridges is under construction; the new terminal will have a projected annual capacity of 3.5 million passengers. Further expansion is planned after 2011. T
The terminal once completed will be the largest in Croatia. Future airport plans call for an extensive commercial zone and a large four-star airport hotel, and long-term plans call for a new runway and the conversion of the existing runway in to a taxiway.
Airlines Destinations Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin Aeroflot Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo[2] Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna Blue1 Seasonal: Helsinki Bmibaby Seasonal: East Midlands British Airways London-Gatwick Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt [begins 13 May 2012] Croatia Airlines Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul-Ataturk, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Zagreb
Seasonal: Belgrade, Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, ZürichDubrovnik Airline Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Manchester, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Split
Seasonal: Athens, Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin, Geneva, Knock, Lisbon, Lyon, Marseilles, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Shannon, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, ZürichEasyJet London-Stansted, Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Geneva, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa, Paris-OrlyEdelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich [begins 27 May 2012] Enter Air Seasonal Charter: Gdańsk, Poznan, Warsaw Europe Airpost Seasonal Charter: Cork, Dublin Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki [begins 2 April 2012] Flybe Seasonal: Birmingham Germania Seasonal: Bremen [begins 27 May] Germanwings Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld [ends 27 May 2012], Cologne/Bonn, Hanover Iberia Airlines Seasonal: Madrid Iberia Airlines operated by Air Nostrum Seasonal: Bilbao, Valencia Israir Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion Jat Airways Seasonal: Belgrade Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels Jet2 Seasonal: Belfast-International, Edinburgh, Leeds-Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle Lufthansa Seasonal: Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 9 June 2012], Munich Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways Seasonal: Munich Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Seasonal: Frankfurt [begins 31 March 2012] Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Hamburg [begins 5 May 2012] Monarch Seasonal: Birmingham [begins 1 May 2012], London Gatwick [begins 1 May 2012], Manchester [begins 27 March 2012] Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim SAS Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen [begins 4 July 2012], Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm [begins 25 March 2012] Spanair Seasonal: Barcelona, Madrid TAP Portugal Seasonal: Lisbon TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest-Henri Coandă Thomson Airways Seasonal: Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester Vueling Airlines Seasonal: Barcelona Wizz Air Seasonal: London-Luton Traffic statistics
Dubrovnik Airport handled 1,270,062 passengers[3] in 2010.
Traffic at Dubrovnik Ćilipi Airport[4][5] Year Passengers Cargo 1987 1,460,354 2,490 2000 395,458 680 2001 461,322 646 2002 507,459 657 2003 716,592 592 2004 880,967 822 2005 1,008,240 677 2006 1,120,453 741 2007 1,144,038 847 2008 1,191,474 997 2009 1,122,355 516 2010 1,270,062 2011 1,194,700 In 1987 Dubrovnik Airport handled 1.5 million passengers and 2500 tons of cargo, making 1987 year the busiest thus far. Dubrovnik is expected to hit those figures by 2012.
Incidents and accidents
- USAF CT-43 crash: On April 3, 1996 a United States Air Force CT-43 aircraft carrying a Department of Commerce delegation crashed north of the airport on St. John's hill. The accident killed 35 people, including Ron Brown, then-Secretary of Commerce.
Gallery
A panoramic view of Dubrovnik Airport References
- ^ a b AIP from the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
- ^ Новости | Аэрофлот — Аэрофлот начинает регулярные полеты в Дубровник (Russian)
- ^ "Statistics". Airport Dubrovnik. http://www.airport-dubrovnik.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=48&lang=en. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Statistics 1962 - 2010 (statistika.pdf)". Airport Dubrovnik. http://www.airport-dubrovnik.hr/images/stories/stat/STATISTIKA.pdf. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Statistics 1962 - 2010 (statistika.doc)". Airport Dubrovnik. http://www.airport-dubrovnik.hr/images/stories/stat/STATISTIKA.doc. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
External links
- Official website
- Official website (Croatian)
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