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Romanian airline AirConnect will start its Cluj-Budapest and Bucharest-Budapest flights on Tuesday. Several domestic flights to Transylvanian cities will start from the Romanian capital as early as Monday.
According to the airline’s website, Air Connect planes will fly twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, from both cities to the Hungarian capital.
In June, the airline will launch new domestic and international flights. These will be to popular foreign resorts such as Dubrovnik in Croatia, which will be served from Bucharest. There will also be regular flights to the Romanian coast from Romanian cities far from Constanța, such as Oradea (Greater Vardein, Nagyvárad), Cluj (Cluj-Napoca, Kolozsvár), Timișoara (Timisoara, Timisoara) and Suceava, it said.
The company has two ATR 72-600 aircraft with 68 seats. It plans to add two more aircraft to its fleet. AirConnect announced the launch of its Budapest and domestic flights last August, but informed its passengers in September of a delay due to the late delivery of the second aircraft.
The airline was founded by five Romanian private investors to serve the regional market, according to its website. The airline began operations last July with a 68-seat ATR-72-600 aircraft, offering charter flights to Greek and Turkish coastal cities popular with Romanian tourists.
Cluj is already served on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from the Hungarian capital by Aeroexpress Regional, a newly established airline privately owned by Hungary. This means that the ambitious goals of the Romanian company are not easy to reach, but Cluj-Napoca, the business and university metropolis of Transylvania, is moving even closer to Budapest.
Via MTI, Featured Image: AirConnect Facebook