Dubrovnik Airport

Dubrovnik Airport (Croatian: Zračna luka Dubrovnik; 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 2019 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.

Dubrovnik Airport

Čilipi Airport

Zračna luka Dubrovnik/Čilipi
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorDubrovnik Airport Ltd.
ServesDubrovnik-Neretva County
LocationČilipi, Croatia
Hub forCroatia Airlines
Elevation AMSL527 ft / 161 m
Coordinates42°33′41″N 018°16′06″E
Websiteairport-dubrovnik.hr
Map
DBV
Location of the airport in Croatia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 3,300 10,827 Concrete/Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers2,896,227 14.05%
Croatian Aeronautical Information Publication[1] Statistics from Dubrovnik Airport site[2]

History

Yugoslav flag carrier Aeroput used a seaplane station in Dubrovnik to open the first route to the city in 1936. It linked Dubrovnik to the national capital Belgrade via Sarajevo. The following year a route to Zagreb was inaugurated. But it was in 1938 that Dubrovnik saw a significant increase in air traffic, with the introduction by Aeroput of regular flights to Vienna, Brno and Prague with stops in Sarajevo and Zagreb, and also the introduction of a regular flight between Belgrade and Tirana with a stop in Dubrovnik. 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.[3] However, by early 1940s, due to World War II, Aeroput operations were suspended.[4][5]

The current Dubrovnik Airport opened in 1962. 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.[6] 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 has been built in place of the old airport building, that dated from 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. Dubrovnik Airport has the capacity to handle two million passengers per year.

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.[7]

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.

The airport can handle widebody aircraft such as the Boeing B-747 and Airbus A350.

A shuttle bus operated by the company Platanus[8] connects the airport to Dubrovnik Old Town and Dubrovnik Bus Station in Gruž.

Airlines and destinations
TUIfly Boeing 737-700 taxiing at Dubrovnik Airport
Croatia Airlines, Star Alliance logojet Airbus A320 at Dubrovnik Airport
AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Cork,[9] Dublin
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[10]
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga, Vilnius (begins 6 July 2020)[11]
Alitalia Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino[12]
American Airlines Seasonal: Philadelphia (resumes 31 March 2021)[13][14]
ASL Airlines France Seasonal: Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle
ASL Airlines Ireland Seasonal charter: Dublin[15]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways London–Gatwick
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt
Croatia Airlines Frankfurt, Zagreb
Seasonal: Athens, Düsseldorf, Munich,[16] Osijek, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino, Split, Tel Aviv, Venice, Zürich
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam, Belfast–International, Berlin–Schönefeld, Berlin–Tegel,[17] Bristol, Edinburgh, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, London–Southend, London–Stansted, Lyon, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nantes,[17] Naples, Paris–Orly, Toulouse, Venice[18]
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Basel, Geneva
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich[19]
Enter Air Seasonal: Katowice
Eurowings Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai–International[20]
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham,[21] East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow,[22] Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin[23][24]
Seasonal: Budapest (begins 4 July 2020),[25][26] Gdańsk (begins 3 July 2020),[27] Kraków,[28] Poznań (begins 5 July 2020),[27] Wrocław (begins 4 July 2020)[27]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Barcelona, Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim
Ryanair Seasonal: Dublin[29]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague[30]
Seasonal charter: Gdańsk (begins 16 July 2020),[31] Katowice,[31] Poznań (begins 9 July 2020),[31] Warsaw–Chopin
Sun d'Or Seasonal: Tel Aviv[32]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva (begins 4 July 2020)[33]
Trade Air Osijek, Rijeka, Split
Transavia Seasonal: Rotterdam[34]
Transavia France Seasonal: Nantes (begins 1 July 2020),[35] Paris–Orly
TUI Airways Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff,[36] Doncaster/Sheffield,[37] London–Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels
Seasonal charter: Nantes[38]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[39]
Volotea Seasonal: Athens,[40] Bari, Bergamo,[41] Bordeaux, Lyon,[42] Marseille, Mykonos (begins 29 May 2021),[43] Nantes, Palermo (begins 7 July 2021),[44] Strasbourg,[45] Toulouse,[46] Venice
Vueling Barcelona, Paris–Charles de Gaulle (begins 2 October 2020),[47] Rome–Fiumicino
Wings of Lebanon Seasonal: Beirut[48]

Statistics

Traffic figures
Traffic at Dubrovnik Čilipi Airport[49][50]
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 2,323,065 16.5 21,496 11.70 204 8.90
2018 2,539,412 9.31 23,596 9.76 176 13.70
2019 2,896,227 14.05 23,596
Traffic at Dubrovnik Čilipi Airport in 2019/2020 by month
Month Passengers 2019 Passengers 2020 Passenger %
Change
January 26,323 19,338 26,53
February 33,765 33,588 0,52
March 57,880
April 210,803
May 315,037
June 415,876
July 514,723
August 524,615
September 405,924
October 299,532
November 56,924
December 34,825

Largest airlines
RankCarrierPassengers 2018%
1 Croatia Airlines429,95316.93
2 EasyJet347,26013.67
3 Jet2.com179,9907.09
4 Thomson Airways127,3525.02
5 Vueling Airlines123,9074.88
6 Lufthansa103,7604.09
7 British Airways100,5023.96
8 Norwegian Air Shuttle88,2433.47
9 Eurowings87,5703.53
10 Norwegian Air International87,4313.44
11 Austrian Airlines87,0653.43
12 Volotea79,1403.12
13 Turkish Airlines70,3392.77
Remaining626,90024.69
Source: Dubrovnik Airport[51]

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
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