March 8 (SeeNews) - Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air said on Wednesday it will launch seven routes from Bucharest, the eastern city of Iasi and from UK's Liverpool as of mid-June.
Blue Air will start flying from Bucharest to Oslo in Norway on June 15, to Helsinki in Finland on June 16 and to UK's Bristol on June 17. All three routes will be operated three times a week, Blue Air said in a press release.
From Iasi, Blue Air will fly to Glasgow in Scotland starting June 17 and to Italy's Bergamo and Florence starting June 15. All three routes will be operated two times a week.
Blue Air also said it will launch an international route between UK's Liverpool and Larnaca in Cyprus, starting June 17.
In January, Blue Air launched a new route from Bucharest to Tel Aviv in Israel.
Starting February, the air carrier increased the number of flights from Bucharest to Italy's Rome.
In October, it opened a base in Romania's central western city of Cluj and said it will launch four new routes starting in summer 2017. The four new routes will connect Cluj with London, Larnaca, Nice in France and Hamburg in Germany.
Also in October, the air carrier set up a new base in Liverpool from where it will operate flights to Rome, Milan, Hamburg and Alicante starting summer 2017, when the base will be operational.
In September, it set up a base at the Mihail Kogalniceanu International Airport in Romania's eastern city of Constanta, from where it will operate seven new domestic and international routes starting April 27, 2017.
The company's operational bases are in Bucharest, Bacau, Cluj, Iasi, Larnaca and Turin.
Blue Air, the only air carrier in Romania with 100% Romanian capital, started operations in December 2004. In 2013, it was taken over by Airline Management Solutions Company in a 30 million euro ($31.7 million) deal.
The airline operates a fleet of 25 Boeing 737 aircraft and flies to over 97 destinations.
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