The disappearance of Blue Air is one of the reasons why plane tickets have become more expensive, and I personally regret that it was not possible to save this company, the President of the Competition Council, Bohdan Chiritsa, told a conference organized in Sinai on Saturday.

“In theory, we also have a plan to restructure Blue Air. I actually find it hard to believe that Blue Air will ever become reliable again. An airline that hasn’t flown in months, like this? He never had airplanes, and now he doesn’t even fly, so what could have happened there?” Chiritsou said.

“Personally, I’m sorry because I think it was good to have an operator in the Romanian market. Blue Air was the third operator, the company was in the top three, it was bigger than TAROM before the crisis, and their disappearance led to… so their market share went to Wizz Air, the prices went up – I’m not saying they only went up because of the disappearance of Blue Air , but the decrease in competition due to the disappearance of Blue Air certainly affected prices,” added the head of the Competition Council.

“There are several reasons why plane tickets have gone up, they have gone up all over Europe, not just here, but part of the reason for the increase here is also the disappearance of Blue Air. Therefore, I am sorry that it was not possible to save this company,” he said, according to Agerpres.

The judges of the 7th Civil Section of the Bucharest Court accepted Blue Air’s bankruptcy application on March 20. In this way, the low-cost company was able to offer a list of favorable recipients,

On September 6, Blue Air first announced the suspension of all scheduled flights until September 12, leading to the seizure of all company accounts by the Ministry of the Environment.

Although a day later, on September 7, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had decided to suspend the seizure of Blue Air Aviation’s cash and set a 12-month schedule for paying the debt, the low-cost carrier announced that it would resume the seizure. flights only from October 10, noting that it does not have the necessary funds to pay for fuel and other operating expenses necessary for the flights scheduled from September 12.

Later, in late September, the budget airline operator announced that it would not resume flights from October 10 and was in talks with potential investors, creditors and the Romanian government to restructure its capital.