The terminal at dusk, car park in frontKerbside — transfer vans wait a few steps from the doorTaxi and bus lanes; line 9 stops under the canopyThe old terminal behind the fence, still standingDepartures hall — check-in desks at the far endThe Gogu Constantinescu wall — the airport is named after himAirplane Coffee, the one café in the buildingIts menus — espresso, sandwiches, Italian bitsThe sandwich case, which is the whole hot-food offerLa Pasaj kiosk beside the non-Schengen arrivals doorPaintings on easels along the glass frontMore of the same exhibitionCraiova: Artă, Dinamism, Viitor — the programme behind itZBOR — the summer 2026 show and its exhibitor list
One terminal, 7 km east of town, named after Gogu Constantinescu — the Craiova-born engineer who invented sonics and the gun synchronisation gear, and whose story covers a whole wall of the departures hall. Inside there is one café, a small shop, and, through the summer, a visual art exhibition standing on easels the length of the hall. Arrivals and departures are in the same building, so whoever is collecting you waits a few metres from the door.
Field data
Name
Aeroportul Internațional Craiova
ICAO
LRCV
IATA
CRA
Position
44°19′05″N 023°53′19″E (44.31806 / 23.88861)
Distance
7 km east of the centre, on Calea București (E574)
Elevation
626 ft / 191 m AMSL
Runway
08 / 26, concrete, 2,500 m × 45 m, lighted
Terminal
One. Arrivals and departures in the same building
Operator
Consiliul Județean Dolj
Opened
1938 by royal decree. Scheduled flights to Bucharest from 1957, international from 1995
Traffic 2025
578,701 passengers, 7,320 aircraft movements
Weather
METAR published as LRCV
FIR
Bucharest
Also on the field
Avioane Craiova, builder of the IAR-93 and IAR-99; the former 67th Air Base, now a flight-test centre; a SMURD air-ambulance hangar
Codes and runway figures are for orientation. Check the Romanian AIP for anything operational, and the airport or your airline for what is actually flying.
