Company History
December 13th, 2004.
Romanian aviation goes through a historic moment: Blue Air is launched, the first Romanian airline company, with 100% private equity.
The company was founded with the desire to create a safe, comfortable and affordable flight alternative. It was a turning point – for the first time in Romania, a company was offering passengers inexpensive flights to the most important destinations in Europe.
Over the years, our pattern has imposed and other flight companies with similar profile were born. However, Blue Air is always a step ahead, this is a fact materialized today through its smart flying carrier unique positioning.
Smart flying is supported by:
• performance fleet;
• highly experienced pilots;
• various and exclusive routes, both in Romania and abroad;
• specialized personnel at all airports where it operates;
• Blue Air agencies;
• over 20 destinations;
• NON STOP Call Center;
• over 2,000 Blue Air partner agencies, both in Romania and abroad;
• maximum cost efficiency and ticket purchasing simplicity: the earlier you buy, the more inexpensive you travel;
• modern aircrafts, checked regularly;
• flight safety and ground security;
• MyBlue SmartMoney, Priority Smart Check-in, Air Ambulance, Corporate, Cargo etc. programs and services.
Although we still offer highly affordable prices, we work every day for our services to be far superior to our competitors. You deserve smart services, especially for you. And therefore, passengers’ demands are found in our services.
All this would not have been possible without the trust of millions of passengers throughout all these years. For this we thank them all!
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Background
December 2004 - The launch of the first low-cost company from Romania
December 2004 - First Blue Air’s acquisition, Boeing 737 – 300 aircraft
August 2005 – Blue Air consolidates it’s fleet with another Boeing 737-300 aircraft
January 2006 – A new destination: Bucharest- Barcelona
February 2006 – introducing Bucharest – Brescia and Arad – Brescia flights
October 2006 – at Blue Air, autumn comes with new flights : Bacau – Turin, Bacau – Roma, Köln, Brussels South-Charleroi, Cluj and Bologna with departures from Bucharest
December 2006 – New flights to Verona and Malaga
December 2006 – The Boeing 737 – 400 model joins Blue Air’s aircraft family
February 2007 – Blue Air flies to Lisbon
May 2007 – a new flight, Bacau – Barcelona
June 2007 – Introducing the new route, Bucharest- Stuttgart
June 2007 – Record number – over 1 million bookings
October 2007 – new flights to Italy, Belgium and England
December 2007 – New flights from Bacau to Paris Beauvais and Milan
December 2007 - A new destination, Treviso Venetia
December 2007 – The 4th Boeing, 737-400 model joins Blue Air family
March 2008 – Blue Air flies to Arad, Berlin and Larnaca
May 2008 – Another Boeing 737 – 300 aircraft join Blue Air family
June 2008 – new destinations from Sibiu : Stuttgart and Koln
June 2008 – over 2 millions of passengers transported
July 2008 – introducing a new flight: Constanta – Brussels
July 2008 – the newest aircraft, the Boeing 737 – 800 NG model joins Blue Air family
August 2008 - A new destination from Sibiu: Madrid
October 2008 – New Blue Air flights: Bucharest – Reus and Arad – Treviso Venice
October 2008 – the first company’s flight outside Romania: Brussels - London
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