01.22.2016

Three low-cost airlines – Blue Air, Wizz Air and Ryanair, are vying for the top spot now held by national airline Tarom and national railroad passenger carrier CFR Calatori on the segment of more

11.30.2015

Ryanair, the largest low cost airline in Europe, wants to become the market leader in Romania in five years and announced it would start operating domestic flights, as well. more

07.15.2015

Low-cost airline Wizz Air Romania posted zero revenue and 27 million lei (EUR6.1 million) losses and had an average number of 300 employees last year, according to its Finance Ministry filing. more

05.03.2015

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said the Government seeks to conclude a partnership with airline operator Qatar Airways for the modernization of Otopeni airport and the re-launch of state-owned more

04.10.2015

Out of the more than 1,000 planes taking off Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Airport in Bucharest every week, one quarter fly to the ten most important destinations in Europe, to cities that are both leisure more

04.03.2014

This year’s summer season is set to bring more flights to foreign, but also Romanian destinations, with state-owned Tarom, as well as low-cost carriers Wizz Air and Blue Air betting on new routes. more

02.05.2014

Businessman Ovidiu Tender, who runs a group of geological, oil and gas exploration and tourism companies, says that his TEN Airways airline will operate flights for Guinea Bissau, one of the smallest more

12.05.2013

EasyJet and Ryanair, the largest low-cost airlines in Europe, have taken the first step towards gaining market share in Romania by announcing Bucharest-London flights. more

04.11.2013

Romanian low-cost airline company Blue Air, owned by businessman Nelu Iordache, has been put up for sale and several Romanian and foreign investors have shown interest in the company, people familiar more

10.18.2012

Almost one million passengers will pay a higher fare after low-cost airline Wizz Air decided to charge for carry on luggage. Who stands to gain and who stands to lose from it? more

08.08.2012

Romania's Transport Minister, Ovidiu Silaghi, has appointed Sorin Georgescu, representative of Tarom in Rome, to the position of general manager of the airline. more

05.28.2012

The Cluj County Council on Monday approved financial aid of more than EUR5.2 million until 2020 for certain airlines, to launch new flights or raise their frequency, with a view to increasing traffic more

05.09.2012

Emil Delibashev, commercial manager of British Airways for the Balkan area and Hungary, which operates non-stop flights on the Bucharest-London route, says revenues from the sale of airplane tickets more

04.18.2012

Portugal’s national airline, TAP, which carries 9 million people a year, will enter the Romanian market with three flights a week on the Bucharest-Lisbon route as of June 30, a niche where it will more

04.12.2012

Air One, the low-cost unit of regular airline Alitalia, will enter the Romanian market on July 1 when it starts offering two flights a week on the Bucharest-Venice route, according to the company’s more

03.14.2012

Carpatair, the Romanian airline controlled by businessman Nicolae Petrov, carried 550,000 people last year, down about 2% on 2010. more

03.01.2012

The largest airport in Romania, Henri Coanda (Otopeni), will see passenger traffic increase by 45% to 47% as of March 25, when all the low-cost flights currently operated from the Baneasa Airport in more

01.09.2012

Italy-based low-cost airline Air Vallee announced it would enter the Romanian market on March 24, when it introduces two flights between Bucharest and Parma and Iasi-Turin. more

12.06.2011

Verona, Berlin, Palma de Mallorca, Venice and Catania are the main destinations airlines rely on for growth in 2012, but the increasingly fiercer competition in the business might lead to even more more

11.30.2011

Emil Delibashev, commercial manager of British Airways for the Balkan area, which operates direct flights on the Bucharest-London route, says a revenue increase of between 10% and 20% has been more

11.11.2011

British group easyJet, the second largest low-cost airline in Europe, with 44.8 million passengers, will soon drop flights from Romania, which goes to show again that the international giants on the more

11.09.2011

German airline Lufthansa will launch a new flight to Romania next summer, from Berlin to Bucharest, and will double the frequency of Sibiu-Munich flights to 14 per week. more

10.28.2011

easyJet, the second-largest low-cost airline in Europe, with 44.8 million passengers carried on international destinations, is leaving Romania after operating flights to Milan and Madrid from the more

07.14.2011

Madalina Cretu, Malev country manager for Romania and the Republic of Moldova, is set to leave this position on August 1, after having run the domestic operations of the Hungarian airline for seven more

06.13.2011

Ruxandra Brutaru’s two-year term at the helm of state-run airline Tarom has seen the company cumulate EUR134 million in overall loss, the negative record of the last decade. more