Cătălin Radu, general manager of the Civil Aviation Departmentof the Transport and Infrastructure Ministry (MTI), says he hasfiled an application with the European Commission to get 150m-eurofunding so that airports with a traffic of below one millionpassengers annually can develop.
"Romania has 16 airports, of which only two have over one millionpassengers annually. Should the application we sent to Brussels fora funding scheme as part of the transport sectoral operationalprogramme be approved over the following weeks, then small airportswill be able to file projects for runway and platformrehabilitation," stated Cătălin Radu, during the Airport Forum 2010event organised by Finmedia.
The programme may benefit airports of Sibiu, Iaşi, Oradea,Constanţa, Cluj-Napoca and another nine airports in thecountry.
However, the biggest airports in Romania, Henri Coandă and AurelVlaicu, will not be able to benefit from the scheme, as theyoperate under the National Airport Company Bucharest and willregister total traffic of almost 7 million passengers, according toTudor Jidav, general manager of the company.
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