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Sibiu International Airport (LRSB) lies in southern Transylvania, about 3 km west of the city of Sibiu, and is Romania's principal airport serving the region. It offers a single long hard-surfaced runway with an ILS, radar-assisted approach and scheduled jet services from Wizz Air, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, making it a straightforward destination for instrument or visual arrivals in a busy commercial environment.
Sibiu International Airport serves the city of Sibiu in southern Transylvania and is operated under the Sibiu County Council. Originally a grass airfield opened in 1943, it has grown into a modern international gateway with a single long concrete runway, an ILS approach and scheduled services to numerous European cities. For the simulator pilot it offers an interesting mix of history and contemporary jet operations set against the Transylvanian landscape.
The airport sits in southern Transylvania, roughly 3 km west of Sibiu and about 260 km northwest of Bucharest. It has operated radar facilities since 1975 and handles international traffic, indicating controlled airspace commensurate with a large commercial aerodrome.
Sibiu has a single physical runway, 09/27, oriented east-west. Runway 09 is 8,606 ft long and runway 27 is 8,647 ft long, both with a hard surface and runway lighting. Runway 27 is equipped with an ILS approach. Field elevation is 1,480 ft.
Approach control operates on 122.7 MHz, the precision ground-controlled approach (GCA) facility on 121.3 MHz, and the tower on 122.7 MHz. Runway 27 offers an ILS-guided approach.
Flying activity at Sibiu began in 1943 on a 174-hectare grass field, with Lockheed aircraft of the LARES airline operating the first routes, Bucharest-Sibiu-Arad and Bucharest-Sibiu-Oradea. By 1944 Sibiu was linked by air to Bucharest, Brasov, Deva, Oradea and Targu-Mures. A two-storey terminal building with a control tower was inaugurated in 1959, and in 1970 approach and runway lighting allowed night operations on the by-then 2,000 m concrete runway. Radar facilities became operational in 1975, and the airport opened to international traffic in 1992 with flights to Stuttgart and Munich. A major rehabilitation between 2006 and 2008, costing around 77 million euros, delivered a new terminal building and an upgraded runway, and in February 2023 the terminal was tripled in size through further modernisation and expansion.
Sibiu is now a scheduled international airport with regular services operated by Wizz Air, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, along with seasonal charter flights to destinations such as Antalya, Larnaca, Heraklion and Hurghada. Lufthansa operates multiple daily flights to Munich, Austrian Airlines flies daily to Vienna, and Wizz Air serves a wide network of European points including Dortmund, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, London-Luton, Madrid, Memmingen, Nuremberg and Rome-Fiumicino, with further routes such as Hamburg, Frankfurt, Basel and Birmingham added in 2025. The airport functions as a focus city for both Wizz Air and Lufthansa.'