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 (2014)
Passengers 1,584,471
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. It was the third busiest airport in Croatia in 2014 in terms of passenger throughput and has the country`s longest runway.

History

Dubrovnik Airport opened in 1962. The city was originally 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 busiest 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 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.

Further expansion is planned in 2015. 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. 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 737-700 taxiing at Dubrovnik Airport

Croatia Airlines, Star Alliance logojet Airbus A320 at Dubrovnik Airport

Charters

Statistics

Top Carriers

Rank	Carrier	Passengers 2013	%	Passenger % Change 2012
1	Croatia Airlines	389,397	25.68
2	EasyJet	153,134	10.05
3	Norwegian Air Shuttle	105,292	6.92
4	Lufthansa	75,240	4.95
5	Jet2.com	73,754	4.09
6	Monarch Airlines	73,374	3.5
7	British Airways	62,117	3.5
8	Austrian Airlines	61,561	4.05
9	Air Méditerranée	46,777	3.0
10	Germanwings	35,207	4.5	2.32
Source: Dubrovnik Airport[14]

Trivia

• "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.

References

External links

Media related to Dubrovnik Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website

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