BlueAir adds new flight from Arad airport

BlueAir, the largest low-cost operator on the Romanian market, will introduce flights from Arad to Barcelona at the end of the month, in the wake of which the airline will operate four foreign destinations from Arad. Besides flights to Valencia, Verona, Stuttgart and Barcelona, BlueAir has also been operating its only domestic route, Bucharest-Arad, since the beginning of this month. “We’ve had 400-450 passengers a week since the introduction of the domestic flight on March 12, and expect to have 24,000 passengers on this route by the end of 2008,” said Catalin Ilie, deputy general manager of Blue Air. Arad is also the airport where the biggest low-cost airline in Europe, Ryanair, will begin operating flights in April. Ryanair will be flying from Arad to Milan. The company entered the Romanian market with flights from two cities not chosen by many airlines (Arad and Constanta) after its representatives said they were not interested in expensive airports such as those in Bucharest. Other low-cost airlines in Romania include Wizz Air, MyAir and SkyEurope.