ROMANIA: Ryanair B738 Overruns Runway When Landing At Bucharest Otopeni Airport

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 performing flight from Berlin Schoenefeld (Germany) to Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) with 183 people on board landed on Otopeni’s runway but overran the displaced end of the runway, damaged a runway end light and came to a stop on the paved surface of the runway.

The aircraft was able to immediately turn onto the next taxiway and taxi to the apron.

There were no injuries, the aircraft sustained minor if any damage.

The aircraft was still on the ground at Otopeni Airport preparing for flight FR-1008 to London Stansted, EN (UK) at 15:32Z.

The aircraft actually departed to Stansted at 15:56Z. Romania’s CIAS reported they were notified about the occurrence at 10:51L and are investigating the runway overrun.




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MACEDONIA: Wizz Air Expands To Macedonia

Wizz Air announced further growth to its low fare route network from Macedonia with three new Skopje services.

WIZZ will connect the Macedonian capital with Berlin Schoenefeld from 21 March 2016, while the new Skopje services to Copenhagen and Bratislava will commence in 22 and 28 March, respectively. Each new route will operate two times a week.

Bratislava and Copenhagen, the capitals and economic centers of Slovakia and Denmark are two new destinations in Wizz Air’s network of 116 airports.

Wizz Air is now offering a total of 24 routes to 11 countries from its two Macedonian airports, Skopje and Ohrid.

Wizz Air’s Tamara Mshvenieradze said: ”Wizz Air has today once again underlined its commitment to Macedonia as Skopje’s hometown airline.

We are thrilled to announce three new routes from Skopje to the capitals of Denmark, Germany and Slovakia, and we are confident that these three new routes will be as popular as the other 21 in our ever-growing Macedonian network.

Seats on the new routes went on sale today and we urge customers to snap up the lowest fares on wizzair.com, mobile website or through our smartphone apps. Our Macedonian crew looks forward to welcoming you on board your next Wizz Air flight!”