According to local hotel market players, clients arriving on low-cost airlines contribute some 10 percent of turnover. According to InterContinental hotel Marketing Manager, there is an international trend to spend less on transportation and more on good accommodation services.

According to data from the easyJet low-cost airline, some 12 percent of total passengers travel for business. “Through the flexible online reservation process, passengers save a considerable amount of time,” according to easyJet Eastern Europe’s Marketing Manager, Peter Voets.  Some half of Lufthansa’s Germanwings low-cost division passengers are business people.

Slovak company SkyEurope Airlines announced last year that it will change its development strategy from the low-cost segment to business, to become a competitor of Tarom and Austrian Airlines for flights to Vienna. According to company statistics, half of SkyEurope passengers are Austrians and 40 percent are Romanians. The company targets a 15-20 percent rise in turnover on the Romanian market, to €8.5 million.