DEB is located 5 km (3.1 mi) south southwest[2] of the city center and also easily accessible to adjacent regions of Romania and Ukraine.

The political transition brought the revival of the airport and international civilian traffic was launched together with sports aviation.

In 2014, due to souring Russia–European Union relations, a number of punitive sanctions were implemented vice versa that forced UTair to cancel the flight.

[4] In 2015, Wizz Air established a cadet pilot school at the airport[5] under the company Pharma-Flight Kft which also researches and produces pharmaceutical products for flight staff.

[6] The construction of a new "innovation and incubation centre" at the airport which would host the new terminal on its ground floor began in June 2015.

The schedule of the buses are matched with the departure and arrival times of the planes at the airport, serving all inbound and outbound flights and can be used with any of the regular DKV tickets or passes.