Osijek Airport
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Osijek Airport is the airport serving Osijek
Osijek
Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...

, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

. The airport is located 20 km east southeast of Osijek and is situated near the Osijek - Vukovar
Vukovar
Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia, and the biggest river port in Croatia located at the confluence of the Vuka river and the Danube. Vukovar is the center of the Vukovar-Syrmia County...

 regional road, southwest of the eponymous village of Klisa
Klisa, Osijek-Baranja County
Klisa is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D2 highway. The Osijek Airport is located southwest of the village....

.

Passenger Services

The terminal
Airport terminal
An airport terminal is a building at an airport where passengers transfer between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from aircraft....

 building, with area of 1300 m², provides flow from 200 to 400 passengers per hour, i.e. 100,000 to 150,000 passengers per year. As an additional passenger service there is possibility for contracting individual charter flights.
  • passenger terminal for domestic and international traffic
  • passport and custom control
  • passenger and baggage check-in
  • exchange, information
  • café-bar, restaurant
  • rent a car, taxi, car parking

Cargo

Osijek Airport is primarily constructed for cargo traffic, due to Croatia’s favorable geographic and transport position. In order to get Croatia included into Europe
Europe
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an transport network, government and local authorities are investing and developing transport infrastructure and combined transport activities: road and railroad network, international waterway, the Drava
Drava
Drava or Drave is a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It sources in Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy, and flows east through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria, into Slovenia , and then southeast, passing through Croatia and forming most of the border between Croatia and...

, with the cargo port and Osijek Airport.

The complex traffic Corridor Vc
Corridor Vc
The European route E 73 is a Class-A north-south European route that connects the central part of the continent, specifically Hungary and eastern Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Adriatic Sea in the area of the port of Ploče. This route is also designated as the Pan-European Corridor...

 (road, railway, and river and air traffic) which connects Northern
Northern Europe
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, Central and Southern Europe
Southern Europe
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 represents an opportunity to integrate economic development and traffic movement into the Central Europe
Central Europe
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an area. It is opportunity - for all economic areas, such as manufacturers, distributors, as it for Osijek Airport.

A second airport

There is also a secondary airport, used exclusively for sport and private flying purposes (Sportsko Poslovna Zračna Luka Osijek). It is also used for exhibitions. When Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...

 visited Croatia, this was the place, where the service was held. Also, the annual car-show is also held at this airport.

Airlines and destinations

Traffic figures

Traffic at Osijek Airport
Year Passengers Cargo (kg)
1980-90 33,000 per year N/A
2007 2,824 270,572
2008 14,883 173,050


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