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| Paul Kehoe, CEO at Birmingham Airport (left) with Vlad Cristescu, Network Development Executive at Blue Air (right), with members of Blue Air’s cabin crew Blue Air, Romania's largest hybrid carrier, has launched three times weekly flights from Cluj-Napoca, the second largest city in Romania, to Birmingham Airport The route launch follows in quick succession from the airline’s announcement of its new route between Birmingham and Larnaca starting in March 2017 and its inaugural Bucharest launch which was celebrated in March this year |
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| Paul Kehoe, Chief Executive Officer at Birmingham Airport, said: "Blue Air has had a very successful few months at Birmingham Airport flying thousands of passengers to and from the Romanian capital city of Bucharest. We are delighted that they are already introducing this second route to Cluj-Napoca. The Romanian city will be a popular city break destination for our passengers as it is a cultural and historic centre home to universities, great nightlife and landmarks dating to Saxon and Hungarian rule. We look forward to seeing the carrier continue to go from strength to strength here at Birmingham Airport" |
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| Tudor Constantinescu, Chief Commercial Officer at Blue Air, said: "It is indeed a proud moment for us at Blue Air to enhance our presence at Birmingham with the addition of thrice-weekly flights to and from the heart of Transylvania – Cluj-Napoca, adding to the existing Bucharest operation. We are also gearing up to introduce even more flights to Birmingham by adding another service from our Larnaca base starting in March 2017 |
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| Served by a 189 seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft, Blue Air will fly to Cluj-Napoca from Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday - the schedule effective from Friday 16 December 2016 as follows - Depart Cluj-Napoca 1000 / Arrive Birmingham 1130 Depart Birmingham 1215 / Arrive Cluj-Napoca 1715 |
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| Monday 19 December 2016 |