Romanian TAROM among First Three European Airlines Resuming Flights to Israel

TAROM is the first Romanian airline to resume flights to Israel and among the first three European companies to resume scheduled flights. The first flight, RO 155, departing from Bucharest on January 1, arriving in Tel Aviv at 11:20 p.m., carried passengers under the command of pilot-in-command Cătălin Prunariu, the current Flight Director of the TAROM company. Cătălin Prunariu is the son of the only Romanian astronaut who got to space, Dumitru Prunariu.

Our mission is to connect people and safely transport them to their destinations. The atmosphere I felt in the passenger cabin on the flight from Tel Aviv on January 1st spoke to me about resilience and strengthened my faith in the power of every human being to contribute to what we all want and need – peace and harmony. This flight is another step towards normality.

Cătălin Prunariu, the Flight Director of TAROM

The company proposes operating two weekly frequencies (return flights) starting January 14. This activity, however, requires risk analyses applied to each race, careful monitoring of the situation in Israel and close communication with the Israeli authorities to stabilize the operation. Currently, depending on the conclusions of the analyses that will be applied to each race, there may be changes in operation.

Together with the representatives of the state, its pilots and the operational teams, after the outbreak of the conflict in Israel, TAROM operated 11 flights to Israel that benefited 2635 people. With the resumption of regular flights to Israel, people interested in purchasing tickets and making flights are urged to monitor constantly, from official TAROM sources, both the availability of seats in aircraft (depending on the situation, adjustments can be made to the size/model of the aircraft with which flights are made, respectively of available seats), as well as information related to the viability of the flights themselves (following continuous monitoring, some flights may be cancelled).