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.

The company has two ATR 72-600 aircraft with 68 seats. They plan to add two more aircraft to their fleet.

AirConnect announced the launch of its Budapest and domestic flights in August last year, before informing its passengers of a delay in September due to a delay in the delivery of its second aircraft.

The airline was set up by five Romanian private investors to serve the regional market, according to its website. The airline started operations in July last year with a 68-seat ATR-72-600 aircraft and charter flights to Greek and Turkish coastal towns popular with Romanian tourists.

As we wrote on Saturday, it seems the International Airport of Brașov in Transylvania, Central Romania, is getting more catchy for budget airlines. A Romanian company, Dan Air, announced before that they would fly from Brassó (Brasov) to Hungary. Now Wizz Air said they would also launch some flights from there, read details HERE.