Dubrovnik Airport

Dubrovnik Airport Čilipi Airport Zračna luka Dubrovnik/Čilipi
IATA: DBV ICAO: LDDU
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
Map
DBV Location of the airport in Croatia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 3,300 10,827 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 1,993,243 17,7%
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 2016 after Zagreb Airport and Split Airport in terms of passenger throughput. It also has the country's longest runway, allowing it to accommodate heavy long-haul aircraft. The airport is a major destination for leisure flights during the European summer holiday season.

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

Terminal facilities

The control tower at Dubrovnik Airport.

Dubrovnik Airport consists of three terminal areas, A, B and C. The spacious new Terminal C was opened in February 2017 and became fully functional in April 2017 as it replaced Terminal A for all passenger departures including check-in and security check. The new terminal features check-in and commercial space stretching over 1,000 square metres, eight security lanes, a departure lounge with commercial and catering facilities, a premium lounge and restaurants. Furthermore, it boasts sixteen gates, two of which will be used for domestic flights and the remaining fourteen for international services. With an area of 24,181 square metres, the airport's annual capacity has increased to 3.5 million passengers.^[6]

The Terminal A building has been permanently closed for passenger traffic and is now being used solely as a baggage sorting facility.

The new Terminal C is located next to the existing Terminal B building which handles arriving passengers. The two have been combined into a single functioning unit.

Future airport plans call for an extensive commercial zone and a 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

Scheduled

TUIfly Boeing 737-700 taxiing at Dubrovnik Airport

Croatia Airlines, Star Alliance logojet Airbus A320 at Dubrovnik Airport

Statistics

Traffic figures

Traffic at Dubrovnik Čilipi Airport^[21][22]

Year	Passengers	Passenger % Change	Aircraft Landings	Aircraft Landings% Change	Cargo (tonnes)	Cargo % Change
1987	1,460,354	20.52	15,606	2.55	2,490	0.53
2000	395,458	81.34	6,762	32.27	680	16.44
2001	461,322	16.66	6,739	0.34	646	5.00
2002	507,459	10.00	7,711	14.42	657	1.70
2003	716,592	41.21	10,204	32.33	592	9.89
2004	880,967	22.94	12,277	20.32	822	38.85
2005	1,008,240	14.45	14,365	17.01	677	17.64
2006	1,120,453	11.13	14,855	3.41	741	9.45
2007	1,144,038	2.10	15,047	1.29	847	14.30
2008	1,191,474	4.15	14,822	1.50	997	17.71
2009	1,122,355	5.80	14,342	3.24	516	48.24
2010	1,270,062	13.16	15,539	8.35	406	21.32
2011	1,349,501	6.25	16,050	3.29	420	3.45
2012	1,480,470	9.70	16,216	1.03	357	15.00
2013	1,522,629	2.85	16,126	0.56	375	5.04
2014	1,584,471	4.06	16,492	2.27	291	22.40
2015	1,693,934	6.91	16,852	2.18	256	12.03
2016	1,993,243	17.67	19,244	14.19	224	12.50
2017 (31.7)	1,254,583	18.39	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Traffic at Dubrovnik Čilipi Airport in 2016/2017 by month

Month	Passengers 2016	Passengers 2017	Passenger % Change
January	15,666	19,329	23-38
February	22,615	22,813	0.88
March	41,664	33,834	18.79
April	94,632	143,912	52.08
May	213,321	253,928	19.03
June	288,809	338,729	17.28
July	383,032	442,030	15.40
August	378,473
September	305,900
October	202,730
November	24,284
December	22,144

Largest airlines

Rank	Carrier	Passengers 2016	%
1	Croatia Airlines	394,772	19.81
2	EasyJet	217,080	10.89
3	Vueling Airlines	107,470	5.39
4	Norwegian Air Shuttle	99,482	4.99
5	Thomson Airways	91,910	4.61
6	Jet2.com	91,696	4.6
7	Lufthansa	82,163	4.12
8	Norwegian Air International	76,828	3.85
9	British Airways	75,801	3.8
10	Austrian Airlines	71,073	3.57
11	Monarch Airlines	76,482	2.93
12	Travel Service	56,040	2.81
13	Eurowings	50,594	2.54
	Remaining	519,852	26.08
Source: Dubrovnik Airport[23]

Miscellaneous

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

References

External links

Media related to Dubrovnik Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website