NEWS FLASH
TAROM has postponed the resumption of flights between Bucharest and Belgrade for a second time. The carrier, which suspended the three weekly route on April 9, had initially been due to resume operations on May 10. It did restore services on May 12, operating just one additional flight during the month, on May 19, after which services were to be suspended until June 2. However, the airline has now pushed back its return to Belgrade until July 2. TAROM codeshares with Air Serbia on flights between the two capitals. Air Serbia will maintain twelve weekly services on the route in June and is deploying the larger Embraer E190 aircraft on an average of seven weekly rotations, while the remaining flights will be operated by the ATR72-600. TAROM also uses an ATR72-600 on the service.
With 2 weekly flights it's not like they make any difference. Good thing there is JU with 12 weekly and more and more flights now with Embraers on this route.
ReplyDeleteIt definitely is good for Air Serbia. All booked passengers will be transferred onto JU flights.
DeleteExtends the reduction?
DeleteThis route will clearly be canned in due time by TAROM.
ReplyDeleteTAROM itself will be canned in due time.
DeleteThey could use the opportunity to go for 14x weekly. I would assume Bucharest is majority transfer pax
DeleteIt is mostly transfer. On some days there are no good connections, so thats why there is no two daily flights. Instead, better to introduce third daily in the morning/evening then force two daily flights. Just like they did in Athens this summer. On some days there are three flights, on some only one. In total 15 weekly.
DeleteThere is a solid degree of point to point also. 3 times daily i think would be overkill. But im sure Cluj man will pop up eventually here.
DeleteI am not Cluj man, but Romania is really underserved, regarding it's potential.
DeleteAnd yet Serbia and Romania cant organise proper bus transport between the two countries. As somewho spends a huge amount of time there i'm always surprised how few Romanians i meet who have visited Serbia. Yeah there is potential in geographical terms, but enough to flight flights? I'm doubtful for a while more.
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DeleteThere isn't even a decent highway from Serbia to Romania.
DeleteThere isnt a highway to Vrsac let alone Romania. Historically poorly
DeleteConnected given the dynastic and historic good will.
Animawings in Romania is already taking away their core markets and expanded to the secondary cities. Logical replacement for TAROM who needs to go the way of MALEV and CSA to the dustbin of history
ReplyDeleteMalev was a wonderful airline 😭
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DeleteWonderful for who?
DeleteFor Hungary and good option for all balkan airports for transfer to Western Europe.
Delete@21:30 back in the early 2000s they covered the Balkans in a very similar fashion as JU do now and provided brillian connectivity in the Pre-LCC boom era. They were a class act then too (all apart from their finances which were shit).
Delete18:31 and tour operators that was worked with Tarom
DeleteMale was garbage. Poorly run and the fates were astronomical. Good riddance
ReplyDeleteNonsense, 20 years ago we could fly BEG-BUD-Italy/Spain for less than 150 EUR return on Malev. It was one of the most competitive carriers around.
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DeleteI flew Malev from LJU to Kiev in 2004. Very expensive, nothing special, though BUD airport was really nice.
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ReplyDeleteService wise they were good. Far far better than the garbage heap that was Jat 2.0 at that time. Not sure if you are old enough or had enough experience with them. But during the early 2000s they were both very useful and nice to fly.
DeleteThank god they're gone now
DeleteWhat a dumb comment.
DeleteWhat is puzzling me is the fact that Air Serbia is not expanding into Romania while TAROM is clearly failing. I guess that it could have a great impact and fight off with Animawings given that JU has a lot of flights to Italy now.
ReplyDeleteBecause point to point demand is very very limited.
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