Low-cost traffic will exceed this year half the volume of passengers carried by traditional airlines.
The number of passengers carried by low-cost companies is to reach over 2 million, compared to 4.5 million passengers on classic airlines, considering the low-cost airlines were at the start only four year ago.
The number of passengers carried by low-cost companies is to reach over 2 million, compared to 4.5 million passengers on classic airlines, considering the low-cost airlines were at the start only four year ago.
Over January-September, the first three low-cost operators on the local market (Blue Air, My Air and Wizz Air) which ensure some 90% of the total relevant traffic carried some 1.7 million passengers, up 40% compared to 2007, estimating to reach 2.5-2.7 million passengers by the end of the year.
Carrying 700,000 passengers, local company blue Air tops the ranking, although the results for the first nine months indicated the intensification of competition with Wizz Air.
Carrying 700,000 passengers, local company blue Air tops the ranking, although the results for the first nine months indicated the intensification of competition with Wizz Air.
At present, following the results announced after nine months, Wizz Air is separated from Blue Air by some 20,000 passengers.
Last year, Blue Air drew near one million passengers, whereas traffic of Wizz Air to and from Romania did not exceed 50,000 passengers.
For this year, Wizz Air targets almost one million euros and for next year expects 2 million passengers.
Last year, Blue Air drew near one million passengers, whereas traffic of Wizz Air to and from Romania did not exceed 50,000 passengers.
For this year, Wizz Air targets almost one million euros and for next year expects 2 million passengers.
The company’s plans for the end of this year and the beginning of next year stipulate the release of a new operational base in Timisoara (western Romania), the third in Romania after Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (center-west) and the release of 15 new routes with departure from these three cities. The overall number of routes operated by the company will reach 30 in May next year.
According to the newspaper, an unexpected evolution on the low-cost market had MyAir, which reported in Q3 of the year shrinkage in the number of passengers carried on the local market.
Therefore, in the first nine months of the year, operator MyAir carried 320,000 passengers, losing the second place on the market.
Therefore, in the first nine months of the year, operator MyAir carried 320,000 passengers, losing the second place on the market.
“The decrease compared to the third quarter of last year was prompted to annulment of flights to Barcelona or Brussels and the reduction of weekly flights to some routes,” said Antonuio Iervolino, representative of MyAir in Romania.
On the other hand, MyAir has recently announced the merger with Slovak operator SkyEurope, a merger that will strengthen the presence of the two companies on local plan.
Last year, SkyEurope changed strategy on Romanian market, giving up the scheduled introduction of new destinations to Italy, France or Hungary, focusing instead on departed from Bucharest to Vienna.
The most important low-cost operators in Europe, Ryanair and easyJet, are however, scantly represented on the local market, both airlines giving up some routes. While Ryanair no longer flies from Arad airport (western Romania), operator easyJet gave up the route Bucharest-London because of scant demand. Therefore, the first positions on the Romanian low-cost market are held by local and regional companies.
Even if the local low-cost market has felt the effects of the international turmoil, companies haven’t revised so far the expansion plans in Romania, daily Ziarul Financiar reports.
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