Blue Air

Blue Air
IATA code :	0B
ICAO code :	BLA
Call sign :	BLUE AIR
Founding:	2004
Seat:	Bucharest , Romania
Home airport :	Bucharest Henri Coandă
Company form:	SRL
IATA prefix code :	475
Management:	Gheorghe Răcaru ( Chairman of the Board )
Passenger volume:	2 million (2015)
Fleet size:	21 (+ 12 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.blueairweb.com

Blue Air , registered as SC Blue Air - Airline Management Solutions SRL , is a Romanian airline based in Bucharest and based at the Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport .

history

Blue Air was founded with the aim of lowering the ticket prices that were still high in Romania at that time and expanding the comparatively weak network of connections to other major European cities. The aim of the company is - according to its own statements - to offer professional service at affordable prices as an alternative to the existing road and rail transport routes. Most of the flight crew comes from the Romanian airline TAROM . Blue Air operates both scheduled and charter flights and rents some of its aircraft, including crew, to other airlines.

In January 2013, Blue Air canceled an order for five Boeing 737s for economic reasons .

In September 2018, Blue Air, together with two other investors, took over the state-owned Air Moldova from the Republic of Moldova .

On July 6, 2020, Blue Air filed for bankruptcy under self-administration.

Destinations

Blue Air serves domestic routes in Romania and Italy as well as international routes from Romania to various European countries. It also operates flight connections between some European countries, especially between Cyprus and Greece. In German-speaking countries, the company is represented at Munich , Hamburg , Cologne and Stuttgart airports .

Code sharing

Blue Air has codeshare agreements with Air Moldova , Alitalia , Blue Panorama Airlines and Georgian Airways .

fleet

As of August 2020, the Blue Air fleet consists of 21 aircraft with an average age of 22.6 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats
Boeing 737-300	3		two inactive	141
Boeing 737-400	2		both inactive	170
Boeing 737-500	6th		one inactive; one leased to Air Sénégal	126
Boeing 737-800	10		YR-BMH in City of Liverpool special livery; YR-BMP in Carol-I.-King-of-Romania - special livery	189
Boeing 737 MAX 8		12	+ 2 options	- open -
total	21st	12

In the past, Blue Air also operated BAe 146 and Saab 2000, among others .

Blue Air Boeing 737-400

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Blue Air  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Blue Air website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Blue Air: 2 million passengers carried in 2015. In: hst-marketing.com. December 23, 2015, accessed December 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Victoria Moores: Blue Air cancels order for five 737s. In: Air Transport World. January 10, 2013, accessed December 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Blue Air buys Air Moldova. AeroTelegraph, October 3, 2018.
4. ↑ Blue Air saves itself in bankruptcy protection. In: aerotelegraph.com. July 7, 2020, accessed July 7, 2020 . 
5. ↑ blueairweb.com - Flight Destinations , accessed March 8, 2018
6. ↑ Arabela Boboc: Operatorii aerieni Blue Air si Blue Panorama au semnat un acord code-share. In: Fin.ro. February 19, 2010, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; Retrieved December 27, 2016 (Romanian). 
7. ↑ georgian-airways.com - Codeshare Agreements ( Memento of July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2016
8. ^ Blue Air Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
9. ↑ aeronews.ro - Blue Air orders MAX 8 , accessed on June 20, 2017
10. ↑ blueairweb.com - Fleet , accessed June 9, 2018