“Our sales on the segment of passenger transportation by bus stood at EUR12.5 million, generated by our network and by our partners. We have 25 buses of our own (Rombus Transport) and 25 we constantly use from various subcontractors. We plan to buy six new buses,” Mihai Fertig, the company’s chief operating officer, told ZF.
Touring Europabus operates routes to Brussels and other destinations. “We had no cancellation of bus tickets to Belgium, and one or two cancellations of plane tickets,” Eurolines officials said. After the terror attacks in Brussels, airlines Tarom and Blue Air cancelled their flights to this destination.
Touring Europabus, which also operates a network of travel agencies, ended last year with EUR77.5 million revenue, up from EUR67.5 million in 2014. The overall revenue of the group, which consists of 20 companies in Romania, Germany and the Republic of Moldova, stood at EUR110 million, the company officials said. A milestone in the history of the group was the acquisition of the Danubius Travel and the signing of a strategic partnership with TUI Travel in 2011.
“We expect sales (on the segment of passenger transportation by bus i.e.) to go up by 10% without introducing new routes in 2016, as a result of the better use of the existing capacity, the price hike and product improvement.”
Eurolines is the second largest road passenger carrier in Romania after Atlassib, which posted EUR50 million revenue last year, when it carried 590,000 people to destinations abroad.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)