After some scandals created by press after some minor incidents (and normal for an airline)Blue air decided to extend it routes with four more.
The routes are:
Bucharest-Verona/Brescia
Timisoara-Verona/Brecia
Bucharest-Frankfut (Hahn)
Bucharest-Valencia.
For Frankfurt and valencia the flights will be available starting with spring 2006. (end of march probably), but the ticket sale will start till the end of this year.
BlueAir will operate from Bucharest and Timisoara to Verona-Brescia, starting with february 11. The flights are on monday, wednesday and saturday. Here is the schedule:
Bucuresti -Baneasa (14:00) – Verona – Brescia (15:05)
Verona-Brescia (20:40) – Bucuresti-Baneasa ( 23:40)
Timisoara (19:15) – Verona-Brescia (19:55)
Verona – Brescia (15:50) – Timisoara (18:30).
All this flights will be operated with the same aircraft, a Boeing 737-300, that will fly Bucharest-Verona-Timisoara-Verona-Bucharest.
At the start I believed that BlueAir will re-launch the flights to Timisoara. For the moment they will not, but this is another story(keep reading this blog for details).
As the officials of the company said, another plane will join BlueAir fleet till the end of the year. For the moment they prefer to not say if it will be a small aircraft or another Boeing 737. Why? If it is a small aircraft (ATR, SAAB, Embraer) this means that they will start to oparate national destinations and TAROM should not know so early. Friends know why!
Another good thing is that starting with January 23, BlueAir will operate it route to/from Barcelona on the main airport of the city, El Prat (13 km from the city-center), and not to Reus (100km from Barcelona).
For the moment Blue Air didint anouced the details about Frankfurt. The airport where they will fly is Hahn, that is 110km away from the real Frankfurt city. In aviation the name of the airport can be associated with the name of the nearest biggest city only if the distance is not bigger that 50km. But still, there are many cases in Europe when low-cost carees or the airports do this.
This is all. Now just …fly away!
