{"id":120392,"date":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/paralela-45-issues-statement-following-competition-council-fine\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:38:19","slug":"paralela-45-issues-statement-following-competition-council-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/paralela-45-issues-statement-following-competition-council-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralela 45 Issues Statement Following Competition Council Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Travel agency Paralela 45, led by Alin Burcea, which was fined nearly EUR 370,000 by the Competition Council, claims in a press release that the Council’s analyses were not based on verifying market impact and that it was sanctioned for 11 emails which also had no impact.<\/div>\n
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„There are many practices of the Competition Council that are not known to the general public. How are you supposed to know that if you receive an email that does not comply with competition rules, you must distance yourself? No one has ever made such clarifications, and the Competition Council’s prevention activity is almost zero", claims Paralela 45. <\/div>\n
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Regarding this aspect, before the start of this investigation, Paralela 45 submitted a letter to the Competition Council requesting clarifications on competitive practices, a letter which, according to agency representatives, remained unanswered.<\/div>\n
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„Discussions about sharing charter seats between tour operators did not have a negative impact on the market and did not cause harm to anyone. There is nothing illegal about tour operators sharing seats on planes; the same practice is found abroad. Sharing seats on a charter is done to guarantee that it will operate for the entire season. These are not imposed rates; they are the real costs of charter vacations. Accommodation discounts for charter packages come from hoteliers or are part of campaigns that tour operators have from time to time”, stated Alin Burcea.<\/div>\n

Source: Profit<\/a><\/p>\n

Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n

Why was Paralela 45 fined by the Competition Council?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The agency was fined approximately EUR 370,000 following an investigation into competitive practices, specifically involving 11 emails and discussions regarding charter seat sharing.<\/p>\n

What is Paralela 45’s main defense against the sanction?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The agency argues that the Council failed to prove any actual market impact or harm and criticized the lack of preventive guidance regarding competition rules.<\/p>\n

Is sharing charter seats between tour operators illegal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Alin Burcea, sharing seats is a standard international practice used to ensure the viability of flight operations throughout the season, not to fix prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travel agency Paralela 45, led by Alin Burcea, which was fined nearly EUR 370,000 by the Competition Council, claims in a press release that the Council’s analyses were not based on verifying market impact and that it was sanctioned for 11 emails which also had no impact. „There are many practices of the Competition Council…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120392"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}