January 17 (SeeNews) - Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air on Monday launched a new route from capital Bucharest - to Tel Aviv, it said.
The company will operate the route three times per week - on Mondays, Thursdays, and Sundays, it said in a press release.
"Due to a very convenient flight schedule and simple travel formalities, the route targets business people, weekend tourists and people who wish to go on pilgrimages," Blue Air general manager Gheorghe Racaru said.
At the end of 2016, Blue Air said that it will increase the number of flights from Bucharest to Italy's Rome starting February 2017.
In October, Blue Air opened a base in Romania's central western city of Cluj and said it will launch four new routes starting in summer 2017. The four new routes will connect Cluj with London, Larnaca in Cyprus, Nice in France and Hamburg in Germany.
Also in October, the air carrier set up a new base in Liverpool from where it will operate flights to Rome, Milan, Hamburg and Alicante starting summer 2017, when the base will be operational.
In September, it set up a base at the Mihail Kogalniceanu International Airport in Romania's eastern city of Constanta, from where it will operate seven new domestic and international routes starting April 27, 2017.
The company's operational bases are in Bucharest, Bacau, Cluj, Iasi, Larnaca and Turin.
Blue Air, the only air carrier in Romania with 100% Romanian capital, started operations in December 2004. In 2013, it was taken over by Airline Management Solutions Company in a 30 million euro ($31.7 million) deal.
The airline operates a fleet of 25 Boeing 737 aircraft and flies to over 97 destinations.
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