Romania is Europe’s 19th largest country market in S23. According to Cirium schedules information data, it has 8.28 million one-way seats, making it less than half the size of the Poland market. Romania’s S23 capacity is the highest to date and is up from 8.26 million (+0.24%) in S22, the previous record. While the growth […]
April 18, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Having operated a series of charter flights in S22, Romania’s AirConnect started its own scheduled services on 27 March. As they were expected to begin last summer, the delay meant the regional carrier performed many wet-lease flights for other operators. It has two ATR-72-600s but is also leasing in a Saab 340, with talk of […]
April 4, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The last week has sadly seen the collapse of two European airlines, Flybe version 2 and Flyr. Both carriers were launched since the start of the pandemic and focussed, at least initially, on their respective domestic markets of the UK and Norway. While the revived Flybe remained focussed on the domestic market for all of […]
February 3, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
It has been a busy week for Wizz Air. During the last week (7-13 January) the carrier has, according to our research, launched 12 new routes including five to Saudi Arabia, two to Tel Aviv, two ski routes (to Grenoble and Lyon) and new routes to Malaga, Marsa Alam (first ever service) and Yerevan. Another […]
January 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has opened its eighth base in Romania, the airline’s number one European country. It’s at Suceava, situated in the far north of the country around 60 kilometres from the Ukraine border. With two stationed A320ceos, it joins other bases at Bacau, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iasi, Sibiu and Timisoara. Of course, Suceava is not […]
December 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
When Blue Air ceased operations in early September it presented an opportunity for Wizz Air to further expand its presence in Romania, particularly in Bucharest. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for December shows that the Romanian capital is now Wizz Air’s second biggest base, behind only London LTN. Since December 2019, Wizz Air flights have […]
November 30, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Prior to the pandemic, Central Europe’s four busiest airports were Warsaw WAW (18.9 million passengers in 2019), Prague (17.8 million), Budapest (16.2 million) and Bucharest (14.7 million). According to ACI Europe figures they ranked 36th, 39th, 41st and 46th among all European airports. Three of them had grown by around 6% versus 2018, while Budapest […]
October 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Animawings (IATA code A2) is a Romanian carrier which was founded in 2020 by Memento Group. Aegean Airlines, which originally had a 25% stake in the airline, has now increased this to 51%. The airline currently has two A320s in its fleet (YR-AGA and YR-AGB), both of which are former Aegean Airlines aircraft and both […]
September 26, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Located in the north-east of Romania, close to the border with Moldova, Iasi Airport is dominated by Wizz Air. The pan-European carrier is currently offering non-stop flights to over 20 destinations from the airport, generating over 70 weekly departures according to Cirium schedule for August. TAROM has 25 weekly flights (all to Bucharest). Blue Air, […]
July 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Romania’s state-owned flag-carrier TAROM continues to operate, despite, according to local sources, not having generated a profit since 2007. According to planespotters.net, the SkyTeam member currently has 26 aircraft, 12 Boeing 737s (four -800s, four -700s and four -300s), four Airbus A318s, six ATR 72s and four ATR 42s. Of these, 10 are currently not […]
March 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Romanian-based Blue Air started flying as long ago as 2004, the same year that Wizz Air began operations. However, while Wizz Air has a growing fleet of almost 150 aircraft (with orders placed for over 200 more), Blue Air’s fleet currently stands at just 18 aircraft according to planespotters.net. That includes four 737 MAX 8s […]
September 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Situated in north-west Romania, close to the border with Hungary, Oradea International Airport handled over 220,00 passengers in 2018, its busiest year to date. However, passenger numbers fell to just 96,000 in 2019 as Ryanair, which had started serving the airport in March 2017, suspended services on four routes in October 2018. In addition, Blue […]
July 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +