Carpatair

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Carpatair

IATA V3	ICAO KRP	Callsign CARPATAIR
Founded		1999
Hubs		Traian Vuia International Airport
Focus cities / secondary hubs		Cluj-Napoca International Airport
Fleet size		15
Destinations		29
Parent company		Carpatair S.A.
Headquarters		Timişoara, Romania
Key people		Nicolae Petrov (President and CEO)
Website: http://www.carpatair.com/

One of Carpatair's two Fokker 100s, YR - FKA

Carpatair is the largest regional airline in Eastern Europe, based in Timişoara, Romania. It operates services to 28 destinations in 6 countries. Its main hub is Traian Vuia International Airport, Timişoara, and has a secondary hub at Cluj-Napoca International Airport.

1 History
2 Services
3 News
4 Fleet
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] 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 Moldavian Airlines. 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 Transylvania, 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.

[edit] Services

Carpatair operates the following services:

Domestic scheduled destinations: Timişoara, Bucharest, Constanţa, Iaşi, Suceava.

International scheduled destinations: from Bacău, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Constanţa, Craiova[starting 26 March 2007], Iaşi, Oradea, Târgu Mureş, Satu Mare, Sibiu, Suceava via Timişoara to Ancona, Bologna, Chişinău, Düsseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt, Milan, Lviv, Naples, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stuttgart, Turin, Venice, Verona;

Direct flights from Cluj-Napoca to Budapest twice a day, daily.
Direct flights from Timişoara to Budapest twice a day, daily.

Carpatair has various ticketing agreements with major airlines, such as KLM, Lufthansa and Air France.

[edit] News

Carpatair's flights between Budapest and Cluj-Napoca are operated by Carpatair aircraft Saab 2000 and code-shared with Malév Hungarian Airlines.

Carpatair routes expansion in 2006 started with its first destination to Ukraine - Lviv. As of January 23, the city is connected to the Timişoara hub and, through connecting flights, to all of the German and Italian destinations. The flight is operated by a modern 50-seat Saab 2000.

Starting May 2006 Carpatair is operating at Charles de Gaulle International Airport, with 3 flights a week from Timişoara to Paris. The next two destinations for Carpatair in 2006 will be London (postponed) and Barcelona. (source: Carpatair newsletter)

[edit] Fleet

**Carpatair fleet**
Type	Total	Registration	Passengers	Routes	Notes
Fokker F100	2	YR-FKA, YR-FKB	105	Selected European destinations	YR-FKB leased to Portugalia, as of November 2006
Saab 2000	11	YR-SBA, YR-SBB, YR-SBC, YR-SBD, YR-SBE, YR-SBH, YR-SBI, YR-SBJ, YR-SBK, YR-SBL, YR-SBM	50	Domestic & European destinations	The biggest Saab 2000 operator in the world, as of November 2006
Saab 340	2	YR-VGP, YR-VGR	33	Domestic destinations