The private plane chartered by the presidential administration for President Klaus Iohannis’ trip to London, where he attended the coronation of King Charles III, made a stopover of about 20 minutes in Sibiu on Saturday, according to the boarding pass’s Facebook page, which has recently had several reports about the private planes used by the president during his visits abroad and about their route, News.ro notes.

“On its way back to the country from an official visit from the UK, the private jet chartered by the Presidential Administration for the trip made a ~20-minute stopover in Sibiu. The private jet later continued its flight from Sibiu to Bucharest’s Aurel Vlaicu (Băneasa) Airport,” the Boarding Pass Facebook page said.

The cited source notes that after the publication of an article listing the president’s flights in 2022 and the first months of 2023, which revealed that stops in Sibiu were the rule rather than the exception, the country’s president has made several official visits abroad, but during none of these trips did not stop at Sibiu airport.

Earlier, the same site noted that President Iohannis flew non-stop from Bucharest to London on Thursday evening and landed at Stansted Airport in a private plane from the Romanian airline fleet.

President Klaus Iohannis and his wife Carmen attended the coronation ceremonies of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on Friday and Saturday.

In early March, the Boarding Pass website published an image of the private plane used by President Klaus Iohannis to visit Japan and Singapore, noting that the plane was flying on the Bucharest-Sibiu-Tokyo Haneda route.

At that time, the presidential administration provided an explanation for President Klaus Iohannis’s trip to Japan on a private plane and clarified at the request of News.ro how such a decision was made. “The absence of an aircraft intended for the air transportation of high-ranking persons creates operational problems, economic inefficiency and, above all, damages the image abroad,” the institution states, stating that the flights are carried out on the basis of a service contract, but the details of the flight, its cost and the route are classified in accordance with current legislation.

On the same plane, President Iohannis also visited South America at the end of April.

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