HiSky airline continues to break records in passenger growth rate. 537 thousand people flew with HiSky in 2023, according to traffic data, reported mid-year. By comparison, in the first six months of the previous year, the company registered a number of 194 thousand passengers.
The threshold of one million transported passengers will be reached in September
According to estimates based on the flights planned this season, the threshold of one million passengers carried this year will be reached in September. The report strengthens HiSky's position as the fourth largest airline operator on the Romanian market, after Wizzair, Ryanair and Tarom.
The most significant volume of traffic was recorded in June, with 160 thousand passengers, double that of 2022, followed in order by the months of May and April with 110 and 107 thousand, respectively. The upward trend is expected to remain constant, making August the busiest in the company's history.
Regarding the traffic on the company's three operational bases, Otopeni remains the airport with the most important contribution to the recorded volumes with 252 thousand passengers; followed by Chisinau airport with 152 thousand and Cluj with 92 thousand.
The spectacular increase in the number of passengers, this spring and in the first month of the summer season, is also due to the addition of operational capacity, HiSky currently having eight aircraft. Along with the two Airbus A321LRs, included in the fleet at the beginning of April, another aircraft was contracted, leased from a foreign company. Thus, HiSky reaches a capacity of almost 1500 seats.
HiSky operates direct international flights from Romania departing from the airports of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi and Baia Mare to Barcelona, Malaga, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Paris and Dublin. From the Republic of Moldova, passengers can travel with HiSky to nine foreign destinations: Milan, Paris, Dublin, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Rome, Bologna, London and Venice.