In all, adding charter flights and code share flights, Tarom carried 535,000 passengers, its officials added.

“The increase in the passenger numbers by 22% compared with the first quarter of 2017 is a direct result of the improvement in the company’s efficiency,” Werner Wolff, chief executive officer of Tarom told ZF.

Tarom has constantly increased the load factor of its aircraft, added two new aircraft and has a very good frequency of flights on some routes. One such successful domestic routes is Iasi-Timisoara, where many planes serving it are fully booked, the Tarom representative added.

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)