Blue Air
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| Blue Air | ||
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| IATA 0B |
ICAO JOR |
Callsign BLUE TRANSPORT |
| Founded | 2004 | |
| Hubs | Aurel Vlaicu International Airport | |
| Fleet size | 4 | |
| Destinations | 18 | |
| Parent company | Blue Air Transport Aerian S.A. | |
| Headquarters |  Bucharest, Romania |
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| Key people | (President and CEO) | |
| Website: http://www.blueair-web.com | ||
Blue Air is a low-cost airline based in Bucharest, Romania that started operation in 2004. It is currently one of the only low-fares airlines that flies to Romania, though this is expected to change once Romania joins the European Union in 2007. Its main base is Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, Bucharest's second airport.
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[edit] News
Blue Air is seeking to lease smaller capacity aircraft to enable the starting of domestic services, alongside its current international services which use Boeing 737 aircraft. It may lease two or three Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft. (2005)
Blue Air began domestic flights to Cluj Napoca International Airport from Bucharest on 29th of October 2006, operated with a Boeing 737.
The newest Blue Air destination is Malaga in Spain. Also the Targu Mures - Valencia service was replaced with the brand new Cluj Napoca - Valencia service.
[edit] Services
The airline currently flies from Bucharest (Aurel Vlaicu International Airport) to the following destinations:
- Istanbul (Atatürk International Airport), Turkey
- Lyon (Saint-Exupéry International Airport), France
- Paris (Paris-Beauvais-Tillé Airport), France
- Brussels (Charleroi Brussels South), Belgium
- Cologne/Bonn (Cologne Bonn Airport), Germany
- Hahn (Frankfurt-Hahn Airport), Germany
- Milan (Orio al Serio Airport), Italy
- Rome (Ciampino Airport), Italy
- Cuneo (Cuneo Levaldigi Airport), Italy
- Barcelona (Barcelona International Airport), Spain
- Madrid (Madrid Barajas International Airport), Spain
- Valencia (Valencia Airport), Spain
- Málaga (Málaga Airport), Spain [starts Devember 2006]
- Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca International Airport), Romania
From Arad:
From Bacău:
From Cluj Napoca:
At its founding, it also operated a domestic Bucharest-Timişoara flight, though this was discontinued in March 2005 due to low demand and competition from TAROM as well as rail travel.
The company is by far the cheapest air carrier as of November 2006 to service Bucharest and other Romanian cities. It frequently offers deals on well-traveled routes whereby one can purchase tickets to major European cities in a fairly open window of time for only 1 or 2 euros plus tax. Blue Air offers free tickets from Cluj to Bucharest and back if one purchases a roundtrip ticket from Bucharest to any other city outside of Romania, giving those from Cluj the same destinations at the same price as those from the capital.
[edit] Fleet
The Blue Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2006):
- 2 Boeing 737-300 (YR-BAA, YR-BAC)
- 1 Boeing 737-500 (YR-BAB)
- 1 MD-81 (YR-MDS) - leased from Jetran Air (former Acvila Air)
