Wizz Air airline operator is introducing five new routes that will start operating in October, three of which will depart from Bucharest to Milan Malpensa, Stuttgart and Trieste, and the other two will reach Stuttgart and Lisbon from Cluj-Napoca.According to a press release of the company sent on Friday, flights from Bucharest to Milan Malpensa will be every day, to Stuttgart on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and to Trieste on Tuesdays and Saturdays.Also, from October 2024, there will be direct flights from Cluj-Napoca to Stuttgart every Thursday and Sunday, and to Lisbon every Monday and Friday.Ticket prices start at 99 lei on the Bucharest - Milan Malpensa and Bucharest - Trieste routes and reach 129 lei for Cluj-Napoca - Stuttgart, 159 lei for Bucharest - Stuttgart and 189 lei for Cluj-Napoca - Lisbon.The airline also mentions that, this autumn, two other routes will be scheduled from Cluj-Napoca, which will thus complete the options available to passengers: the one to Vienna, from October 1 (on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays), and the one to Lyon, from October 28 (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday).
Romania was formally designated the 43rd country to join the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Friday, January 10. According to the Romanian ambassador to Washington, Andrei Muraru, Romanian citizens will be able to travel to the US without the need for a visa starting March 31, 2025. "Romania becomes the first country in the […]
Cluj-Napoca, the city in Romania with some of the highest rents and a fast-growing IT industry, is closer to banning smoking in playgrounds and parks after mayor Emil Boc expressed his support for the measure. The mayor cited the prioritization of public health as the reason behind such a ban. He mentioned that he has […]
Romania's Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital will receive a robotic system to prepare cytostatic drugs needed by cancer patients, along with other equipment, after the County Council obtained funds from the European Regional Development Fund. With an estimated value of EUR 1 million, the "Robotic Composition System for Sterile Preparations of Cytostatic Drugs" is among […]
Romania’s government adopted in its January 10 meeting a decision granting an extra day off to public sector employees at the beginning of May. Thus, Friday, May 2, will be an official day off for public sector workers, linking the legal holiday of May 1 (Labor Day) with the weekend (May 3-4). This...
The Ministry of Environment announced that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of Romania's meteorological records. Red alerts for heat waves began in June of 2024, with the longest consecutive periods of persistent and intense heat waves, six consecutive days, between July 13-18 and August 15-20. "The year 2024 is the hottest year...
Supporters of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu gathered outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest, which houses the Constitutional Court, on January 10, demanding a rerun of the second round of the presidential elections. The protest, dubbed "The Great Judicial Union," was initiated by Georgescu, who called on his supporters to challenge the election annulment, as […]
