Dubrovnik Airport

Dubrovnik Airport Čilipi Airport Zračna luka Dubrovnik/Čilipi
IATA: DBV – ICAO: LDDU DBV Location of the airport in Croatia
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Dubrovnik Airport Ltd.
Serves		Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Herceg Novi
Location		Čilipi, Croatia
Hub for		Croatia Airlines
Elevation AMSL		527 ft / 161 m
Coordinates		42°33′41″N 018°16′06″E / 42.56139°N 18.26833°E / 42.56139; 18.26833Coordinates: 42°33′41″N 018°16′06″E / 42.56139°N 18.26833°E / 42.56139; 18.26833
Website		airport-dubrovnik.hr
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
12/30	3,300	10,827	Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2013)
Passengers			1,522,629
Croatian Aeronautical Information Publication[1] Statistics from Dubrovnik Airport site[2]

Dubrovnik Airport (IATA: DBV, ICAO: LDDU), also referred to as Čilipi Airport (Croatian pronunciation: [tʃǐlipi]), is the international airport of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The airport is located approximately 15.5 km^[1] (9.5 mi) from Dubrovnik city centre, near Čilipi. The airport has the longest runway in Croatia and was the second largest in terms of passenger numbers up until 2013 when it was surpassed by Split Airport.

History

Dubrovnik Airport opened its doors in 1962. However, the city was previously served by the Gruda Airfield which opened for commercial traffic in 1936 and was in use only during the summer months. The domestic airline Aeroput linked Dubrovnik with Belgrade (via Sarajevo) first in 1936, and a year later a route to Zagreb was opened.^[3]

During 1987, the most successful year in Yugoslav aviation, the airport handled 835.818 passengers on international flights and a further 586.742 on domestic services. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, the airport surpassed the one million passenger mark in 2005. Today, Dubrovnik boasts the most modern passenger terminal in the country. A new terminal is being planned in place of the old airport building, constructed in 1962, which has now been demolished to make way for a new modern structure. The price tag of the project amounts to seventy million euros and is to be financed out of a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In May 2010 a new terminal opened at Dubrovnik Airport stretching over 13.700 square metres. It has the capacity to handle two million passengers per year.^[4]

Terminal

Interior view of the existing terminal

The control tower at Dubrovnik Airport.

A 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 2015. 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 into a taxiway.

Airlines and destinations

TUIfly Boeing 737 taxing at Dubrovnik Airport.

Croatia Airlines, Star Alliance logojet Airbus A320 at Dubrovnik Airport.

Statistics

Pit Cave "Đurovića špilja"

"Đurovića špilja" is a pit cave located under the taxiway of Dubrovnik airport. Image of the Cave1. Image of the Cave2. There is also a wine cellar located inside the cave.

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.

References

External links

Media related to Dubrovnik Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website

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