Etihad Airways and TAROM have signed a codeshare agreement ahead of Etihad’s planned Abu Dhabi-Bucharest service, due to launch on 17 December 2026. The deal was announced at the IATA Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro.
The agreement will let Etihad customers book onward travel on TAROM-operated flights beyond Bucharest on a single ticket, while also giving Romanian travellers access to Etihad’s Abu Dhabi hub and onward network once the new route begins. The Bucharest gateway will connect to six Romanian domestic points: Baia Mare, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Oradea, Suceava and Timișoara.
The codeshare also adds connections from Bucharest to Belgrade, Budapest, Chișinău and Sofia. The arrangement is explicitly intended to support the new Abu Dhabi-Bucharest service, which remains a planned launch rather than an operation already in service.