Romania's national airline transports company signs an agreement to join the SkyTeam alliance on Wednesday. The main consequence is that Romanians will have some 841 destinations to choose from Tarom as compared to 31 destinations available so far.

According to Transports ministry officials quoted by Romanian newspaper Cotidianul, Tarom will pay some 10 million euro which will be recovered in three years. SkyTeam is the second airline alliance in the world, after Star Alliance comprising Air France-KLM, Alitalia, Aeromexico, Delta Airlines.