IATA Congratulates Dan Air on becoming its latest member!
November 7, 2024
To those of a certain age, the Dan-Air name will always conjure visions of second hand de Havilland Comets operating inclusive tour charter flights from London’s Gatwick Airport, or of earlier Airspeed Ambassadors or later BAC One-Elevens doing much the same. The lack of vertical integration with a tour operator, and an inefficient fleet latterly dominated by ageing Boeing 727s and BAC One-Elevens saw the airline experience growing financial difficulties. An ailing Dan-Air was finally sold to British Airways in 1992 for its ‘slots’, changing hands for the nominal sum of £1. Thereafter, the only places that you might see a Dan-Air painted aircraft were aircraft museums!
That changed in 2021, when Bucharest-based Just Us Air was renamed as Dan Air. The airline had been founded in late 2017, and began flying charter flights and scheduled and non-scheduled wet lease flights for various other airlines in 2018. The Romanian low cost carrier began flying regular passenger flight operations under its own brand in June 2023, initially operating from Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest, and from the new airport in Brașov.
The company stopped operating flights from the Bucharest–Otopeni in July 2023 and focused on its operations from Brașov airport. In December 2023, the company moved all of its flights to the George Enescu International Airport in Bacău, operating a completely new selection of routes to ten destinations across Europe.
Plans to operate to Israel and the United Arab Emirates seem to have come to nothing, and today Dan Air flies to Larnaca and Paphos in Cyprus, and to Sofia, Bolgna, Florence, Rome, Milan and Turin, Barcelona and Madrid, Dortmund and Brussels, and to Luton, Liverpool, Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The airline has a fleet of three A320-200s and a single A319-100.
