AIR TRANSPORT - Goodbye Resledaren: a swedish-romanian legend ends

The first foreign tour operator in Romania, a swedish company called Reseledaren, cancelled its services on the seaside at least for the 2007 season. At first this seems to be an unspectacular subject, since almost all foreign tourism operators already left the Romanian market. But there’s a hidden story behind the scandinavian name: in the ‘60s, during a harsh communist regime eager to seal every spot on Romania’s borders, Reseledaren contracted charter flights from Tarom and brought to Romania entire norwegian villages. Those people living beyond the Polar Circle lined up summer after summer for a two weeks break on Romanian beaches. This year Reseledaren was forced to erase Romania from its destinations map because of Tarom refusal to fly charters in the Artic.