Henri Coandă International Airport is Romania's busiest and the main entry point for the country. The airport is named after Henri Coandă, the Romanian engineer who built an early jet-propelled aircraft in 1910 and gave his name to the Coandă effect — the tendency of a fluid jet to be attracted to a nearby surface, which has wide applications in aerodynamics.
A replica of Coandă's 1910 aircraft stands in the departures hall and is worth pausing at if you have time — it is a remarkable object, equal parts early aviation and steampunk imagination. The airport has two terminals and handles both EU Schengen and non-Schengen traffic. Express trains (the Henri Coandă Express) run to Gara de Nord in central Bucharest every 40 minutes; the journey takes 22–25 minutes and costs around 8 lei.