New Romanian airline launches services from Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest to Budapest

New Romanian airline AirConnect will launch regular services between Cluj Napoca (Kolozsvár) and Budapest, and Bucharest and Budapest on Tuesday.

The company is also starting services between Bucharest and several cities in Transylvania, including Sibiu (Nagyszeben), Baia Mare (Nagybánya) and Targu Mures (Marosvásárhely), from Monday, the company said in a statement.

Airconnect will fly from Cluj Napoca and Bucharest to Budapest twice weekly, on Tuesday and Saturday.

The airline will launch new international and domestic flights in June. These will target popular foreign resorts, such as Dubrovnik in Croatia, which is served from Bucharest. It will also have regular flights to the Romanian coast from Romanian cities far from Constanta, such as Oradea, Cluj Napoca, Timisoara (Temesvár) and Suceava, it said.

According to Tudor Constantinescu, AirConnect’s director general, their aim is to make their flights the first option for passengers from south-eastern Europe. “We are pleased to be able to offer Romania’s citizens an advantageously priced, safe, fast and comfortable connection between the capital and the country’s largest cities,” Agerpres quoted the director general as saying.

As he said, once the flights are launched, they will aim to diversify them and, in addition to launching seasonal flights, they will introduce new domestic and foreign destinations in autumn.