Tulcea Danube Delta Airport

Aeroportul Delta Dunării Tulcea
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorConsiliul Județean Tulcea
ServesTulcea
LocationTulcea, Danube Delta, Romania
Opened1952 (1952)
Elevation AMSL200 ft / 61 m
Coordinates45°03′46″N 28°42′52″E / 45.06278°N 28.71444°E / 45.06278; 28.71444
Map
TCE is located in Romania
TCE
TCE
Location within Romania
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 2,120 [1] 6,758 Concrete
Statistics (2013)
Passengers1,887
Aircraft movements996
Source: Romanian AIP at EUROCONTROL,[2] Statistics[3][4]

Tulcea Danube Delta Airport (IATA: TCE, ICAO: LRTC) (also known as Cataloi Airport) is located in south-eastern Romania, 16 km (9.9 mi) south[2] of the city of Tulcea, on the Danube bank and close to the Danube Delta. It is Northern Dobruja's second airport after Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport, which serves Constanța.

History

Romanian flag carrier TAROM flew between its hub Henri Coanda International Airport and Tulcea in June 2008 but the route was soon cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Since Fly Romania's departure in August 2014, there have been no scheduled flights to and from the airport.[5] This was said to change in June 2023, when HiSky was meant to start full charter services from Tulcea to Antalya and therefore mark the resumption of schedule flights. However, there were no such flights in the summer of 2023.[6]

Airlines and destinations

There are no regular commercial passenger flights to/from Tulcea.

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at TCE airport. See Wikidata query.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Semnarea contractului de finanțare pentru reabilitarea Aeroportului „Delta Dunării” Tulcea
  2. 1 2 EAD Basic
  3. ↑ Passengers on small airports in 2013 (in Romanian)
  4. ↑ ORDIN 169/1.801. Planul national de actiune privind reducerea emisiilor de gaze cu efect de seră în domeniul aviatiei civile (in Romanian)
  5. ↑ "Fly Romania cancels all remaining flights, future in doubt".
  6. ↑ Nothing seen on https://hisky.aero/ and http://aeroportul-tulcea.ro/



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