- IATA
- OTP
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LROP
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1970
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 17M
- in 2025
History & name
Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport opened in 1970 and carries the names of Otopeni and of the Romanian inventor Henri Coandă (1886-1972). Run by Bucharest Airports, it lies 16 km from Bucharest and handled 17 million passengers in 2025 on two runways, the longest 3,500 m.
Named afterHenri Coandă — Romanian inventor (1886-1972)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport
- Serves
- Bucharest, Romania
- City centre
- 16 km from Bucharest
- Opened
- 1970
- Operator
- Bucharest Airports
- Passengers
- 17 million in 2025
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,500 m
- Elevation
- 314 ft (96 m)
- Website
- bucharestairports.ro ↗
Where it sits
44.6°N, 26.1°E puts OTP in the northern hemisphere, 4,956 km from the equator and 5,051 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 115th most northerly, which makes it the 547th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 44.6°S, 153.9°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 2,467 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Mihail Kogălniceanu (CND), 191 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from OTP
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Dubai, at 3,394 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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