Bucharest's Public Transport Company (RATB) will increase the number of buses serving the route to the Otopeni airport in the capital city, after low cost flights were moved from secondary airport Baneasa to Otopeni.

Line 780 which connects Basarab railway station to the airport will have 34 percent more buses, while line 783, between Unirii Square downtown Bucharest and the airport will be served by 20 percent more buses during the week and 50 percent more during week-ends. Buses will arrive at shorter time intervals, every 25 minutes for line 780 and every 15 minutes for line 783. A night line connecting the Otopeni airport and downtown Bucharest is also on the cards, depending on the number of night flights.

Low cost airlines flights recently moved from the smaller Baneasa airport North of Bucharest to the main airport for the capital city – Otopeni airport. This will trigger a 45 percent increase in passenger traffic, and the number of arrivals and departures will also go up by some 30 percent, according to Compania Naţională Aeroporturi Bucureşti (CNAB).

The transfer of flights from the smaller, and at times overstretched, Baneasa airport North of Bucharest to the main airport for the city – at Otopeni , was announced last year by Romania’s Transport Ministry. The Baneasa airport will become a city airport for VIP flights by 2015, according to the Ministry’s plan.

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(photo source: RATB)