Carpatair
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| Founded | 1999 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Traian Vuia International Airport | ||||||
| Focus cities | Cluj-Napoca International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 14 | ||||||
| Destinations | 25 | ||||||
| Parent company | Carpatair S.A. | ||||||
| Headquarters | Timişoara, Romania | ||||||
| Key people | Nicolae Petrov (President and CEO) | ||||||
| Website | http://www.carpatair.com | ||||||
Carpatair is a regional airline based in Timişoara, Romania. It operates services to 25 destinations in 6 countries. Its main hub is Traian Vuia International Airport, Timişoara, and has a secondary hub at Cluj-Napoca International Airport.
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History
Carpatair was established in 1999 and started operations in February 1999 in Cluj-Napoca. It was formed as Veg Air operating one leased Yakovlev Yak-40 from MDV. The present title was adopted in December 1999 when Swiss investors joined the company. The airline is owned by Romanian shareholders (51%) and SC Veg Invest (49%). It employs over 400 staff. The current CEO of Carpatair is Nicolae Petrov.
Because it was one of the first airlines to fly internationally from Tranyslvania, it has been very successful in that it has not received much competition from other airlines. It is growing in terms of market share against TAROM and is the second-largest Romanian airline.
Services
Carpatair operates the following services (at January 2006):
- Domestic schedules (for international connecting traffic only): Bacău, Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, Oradea, Sibiu, Târgu Mureş, Suceava (starting March 2006) (all to Timişoara)
- Domestic schedules (for domestic and international connecting traffic): Constanţa-Bucharest-Timişoara, Iaşi-Timişoara
- International scheduled destinations:
- from Timişoara to Ancona, Bologna, Chişinau, Düsseldorf, Florence, Bergamo, Ljubljana, Lviv, Naples (starting March 2006), Munich, Rome, Stuttgart, Turin, Venice, Verona;
- from Cluj-Napoca to Budapest
Carpatair's flights between Budapest and Cluj-Napoca are operated by Carpatair aircraft Saab 340 and code-shared with Malév Hungarian Airlines. The flights from Timişoara to Germany will be code-shared with Lufthansa.
Carpatair routes expansion in 2006 starts with its first destination to Ukraine - Lviv. As of January 23, the city will be connected to Timişoara hub and, through connecting flights, to all of the German and Italian destinations. The flight will be operated by a modern 50-seat Saab 2000.
Fleet
The Carpatair fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2005):
- 2 Fokker F100
- 9 Saab 2000
- 3 Saab 340B
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