Cluj International Airport is the most important gateway to the north-western region of Romania, and the country's first regional airport. 

As a first-class mid-sized airport located in a full economic development region, with a special appetite for business and leisure traffic, Cluj International Airport has demonstrated the ability to take advantage of the potential of its catchment area and has become, over the last decade, Romania’s airport with the most spectacular increase in passenger traffic.

If in 1996 the airport's development plans at a traffic level of 36,000 passengers seemed impossible to achieve for some, its dynamic management approach towards modernising and developing the airport infrastructure over the last 25 years, led to reaching a historic threshold of more than 3.25 million passengers in 2023, and granted Cluj International Airport the honour of being a model of good practice and a landmark airport in South-Eastern Europe.