Volareweb, the Italian low-cost air carrier that has been licensed to operate charter flights on the Bucharest-Venice and Timisoara-Venice routes since January, will increase the frequency of its flights starting this month. Moreover, Volareweb might also introduce flights to Milan and Rome.
"In Bucharest, Volareweb currently operates three flights per week - on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Starting March, the 28th, the frequency of its flights will come to five days per week as the airline will also fly on Mondays and Sundays," Nicolae Demetriade, general manager of World Travel agency, the Italian company's licensed ticket distributor on the Romanian market, told Ziarul Financiar.
Volareweb launched its Bucharest-Venice and Timisoara-Venice flights last November, but it encountered some problems, generated by the gaps in the Romanian legislation regulating this domain. In January, Volareweb was granted a licence by the Romanian Civil Aeronautic Authority (AACR), which implied a series of conditions.
The condition imposed by the licence received by the Italian company required that flights should be organised in a charter regime. "This means that the company can sell only round-trip tickets, travel packages that should include accommodation and travel insurance. At the same time, online sales are banned," explains Demetriade, who is also chairman of Happy Tour travel agency.
"Flights are operated by an Airbus 320 and the average occupancy rate has reached 70-80% so far. Now that we own a licence, we shall initiate a more powerful company promotion campaign," Demetriade also said.
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