Jaro International
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Jaro was a charter airline based at Aurel Vlaicu International Airport in Bucharest, Romania, and operated from 1991 to 2001, when it was liquided by bankruptcy.
[edit] History
Jaro started operations in 1991 at Aurel Vlaicu International Airport, Bucharest second airport, with one Boeing 707. In the same year, Jaro International started services to JFK International Airport, being the first Romanian airline apart TAROM to fly over the Atlantic. In July 1997 the airline introduced weekly flights between Aurel Vlaicu International Airport-Montreal-Mirabel International Airport and Aurel Vlaicu International Airport-Toronto Pearson International Airport, where they stayed until 2000, when they renouced this routes because of the high competition of Tarom which was operating at Dorval and Pearson. In september 2001, the airline declared bankruptcy and made its last long haul flight and its last one from New York.
[edit] Services
In July 1997, Jaro was flying to 3 intercontinental destinations and 17 European destinations :
North America: Montreal, New York and Toronto
Europe: Bucharest, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Frankfurt, Girona, Hanover, London, Ostend (cargo only), Hamburg, Skopje, Palma de Mallorca, Berlin, Malta, Cologne, Southend (cargo only), Stockholm
[edit] Fleet
(at July 2000)
- 3 Boeing 707 (one cargo)
- 2 BAC 1-11
- 1 Yakovlev Yak-42