In the first eight months of the year, Timisoara airport registered 469,382 passengers, down from the corresponding period a year earlier, as Romanian airline Carpatair, which used to operate a high number of passengers and airplanes, filed for insolvency in January and suspended all flights, the airport said in a statement.
The negative impact of Carpatair’s flight suspension was removed starting with August.
In January, Carpatair filed for insolvency and entered judicial reorganization, due to EUR30 million loss triggered by litigations with Timisoara airport, which allegedly sealed anti-competition agreements with low-cost operator Wizz Air.
Daniel Idolu, the manager of Timisoara airport, stated that traffic is expected to increase due to the new routes to be introduced in November, namely to Italy (Turin and Bari), Germany (Frankfurt and Memmingen), Belgium (Brussels), so that the airport is expected to register an increase in passenger traffic for the entire 2014.