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Oct 05, 2022 (newstodate): The privately-owned Romanian budget airline Blue Air is fighting to return to the air - but facing sustained difficulties.
   Based at Bucharest Aurel Vlaicu International Airport and set up in 2004, was first forced to suspend operations till September 12, 2022, in a spat over financial issues with the Rumanian government and regulators.
   And Blue Air has now again felt obliged to delay the planned restart of operations, last slated for October 10, 2022. No new date has yet been set.  
   Blue Air has had its bank account closed by the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Forest after failing to pay a fine imposed this summer by Romania’s National Authority for Consumer Protection.   
   Blue Air was found guilty of canceling over 11,000 flights between April 2021 and April 2022 without good reason and without compensating passengers.
   Unable to pay its providers, Blue Air has felt obliged to suspend operations, leaving its fleet of 14 aircraft on the ground.
   Blue Air made its debut in Scandinavia on June 4, 2016, with three weekly flights to Stockholm, Sweden, adding flights from June 2, 2017, from Bucharest to Copenhagen, Denmark, with three weekly rotations using Boeing 737-400 aircraft.
   Norway's Oslo Airport got its first-ever direct connection to Romania as Blue Air took off on the first flight on the route from Bucharest to Oslo on June 15, 2017, also offering three weekly rotation with Boeing 737 aircraft.