- Carpatair
Infobox_Airline
airline=Carpatair
logo=Carpatair logo.svg
logo_size=250px
IATA=V3
ICAO=KRP
callsign=CARPATAIR
parent=
founded=1999
headquarters=
key_people=Nicolae Petrov (President andCEO )
hubs=Traian Vuia International Airport
focus_cities=Cluj-Napoca International Airport
frequent_flyer=
lounge=
alliance=
fleet_size=14
destinations=34
website=http://www.carpatair.com/Carpatair S.A. is the largest regional
airline inEastern Europe Fact|date=May 2007, based inTimişoara ,Romania . It operates services to 34 destinations in Europe. It co-operates closely withMoldavian Airlines on fleet, maintenance and logistics. Its main bases areTraian Vuia International Airport ,Timişoara .Flight International 3 April 2007] .History
Carpatair was established in 1999 and started operations in February 1999 in
Cluj-Napoca . It was formed as Veg Air operating one leasedYakovlev Yak-40 from Moldavian Airlines. The present title was adopted in December 1999 when Swiss and Swedish investors took a 49% stake in the company. The airline is owned by Romanian shareholders (51%) and Swiss and Swedish shareholders (49%) and employs 450 staff (at March2007 ). The current President and Chief Executive 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 againstTAROM and is the second-largest Romanian airline. Carpatair has various ticketing agreements with major airlines, such asKLM ,Lufthansa andAir France .Fact|date=May 2007Destinations
Carpatair routes expansion in 2006 started with its first destination to
Ukraine -Lviv . As ofJanuary 23 ,2006 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-seatSaab 2000 .Fleet
The Carpatair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of
23 September 2008 ) [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=V3&al_op=1] :As of
3 June 2008 , the average age of the Carpatair fleet is 12.7 years ( [http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Carpatair.htm] ).References
External links
* [http://www.carpatair.ro/ Carpatair]
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