The airline increased the number of passengers to almost 2.2 million, compared with 1.8 million and had a higher load factor, 75% compared with 71% in the corresponding period of 2017.
It added two aircraft in June and has opened 15 new routes since the beginning of the year.
“We’ve reopened the routes to East with Odessa, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Baku. We will resume flights to Cairo in December after almost a decade. Targu Mures is the latest of the six domestic destinations Tarom opened in 2018.”
Werner-Wilhelm Wolf, CEO of Tarom, also said the flag-carrying airline had five months in the black in a row without providing exact figures.
The company ended 2017 with RON172 million, up from the RON46 million of 2016, according to Finance Ministry data.(EUR1=RON4.6630)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)