The main air gateway to Transylvania is Cluj-Napoca (Romanian: Cluj-Napoca), about 7 km from the city centre. The airport serves as an important base for the airline Wizz Air, which operates flights from here mainly to Western and Southern Europe.

Cluj is also served by conventional airlines such as TAROM to Bucharest, Turkish Airlines to Istanbul, LOT to Warsaw, Lufthansa to Munich and Swiss to Zurich.

Ryanair also operates flights to around 7 destinations from Cluj.

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Officially, the airport is named "Avram Iancu Cluj International Airport" and unofficially it is also called Someșeni after the district in which it is located.