The change is in part due to cost streamlining efforts, but the group will continue to operate in the local market.
“eSky has not decided to leave the Romanian market. The truth is that we plan to invest even more in what we offer our customers here. Although we have decided to close our legal entity in Romania as part of the transformation of our business that started in 2018, the Romanian market has been a priority market for us since 2009, when we launched our operations in Bucharest, and will remain so,” Marius Turbatu, corporate development director of eSky, told ZF.
“Now, as our business is successfully expanding globally and transforming into a centrally managed organization, eSky.ro will be operated through our legal entity in Poland, just like in more than 50 other countries around the world where we operate. Therefore, this will have no impact on our customers.”
Local company eSky Travel Search was established in 2009, when the Polish group entered Romania. The company has grown year by year, and in 2023 posted RON51 million revenue, up 15% compared with 2022, Finance Ministry data show. It also made a net profit of RON811,000, lower than the previous year’s net profit, which stood at RON5.5 million.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)