Tarom sees traffic drop, in spite of guarantees to increase it

Newsroom 27/05/2014 | 11:50

Privately managed state-owned airline Tarom carried 2.1 million passengers last year, compared with 2.19 million in 2012, even though the target in the management plan approved early last year was 2.3 million passengers, writes zf.ro.

Tarom officials did not provide an explanation for the decline.

According to the management plan, Tarom was supposed to increase its annual number of passengers by 100,000 and reach 2.6 million passengers in 2016.

Romania’s Transport Ministry replaced four out of six members of the Executive Board of state-run airline Tarom earlier in the month.

The board members that were replaced are Manuel Donescu, Florin Luca, Constantin Sebesanu and Ovidiu-Petrisor Artopolescu. Still on the board: Dante Stein (former counselor for prime-minister Victor Ponta) and Razvan Filipescu (president of the National Tourism Authority).