The company estimates it will carry 1.5 million passengers this year.

Lufthansa and its partners, Germanwings, Austrian Airlines and SWISS Air, operate flights in five Romanian cities, namely Bucharest, Timisoara, Sibiu, Iasi and Cluj-Napoca.

Last year, Lufthansa increased the frequency of Sibiu-Munich flights to two per day.

The company also rose the number of flights on Timisoara – Munich and Bucharest – Vienna routes.

The German group carried 104.5 million passengers in 2013 and reported revenue of over EUR30 billion.