National company TAROM, the country’s most important airline, posted an only 6.2% increase in the number of passengers transported to and from Romania in April, a rate three times lower than the increase in March, reveals data from the Association of European Airlines. “Even though the growth rate was lower in April than in other months, the load was higher than in all other periods. The factors that caused a slowdown in growth include the cancellation of more than 25% of flights during the NATO summit, held in Bucharest in April,” TAROM officials stated. Despite the cancellations, TAROM transported only 3,000 passengers less in April than the 144,000 in March.