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Founded | 1999 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 3 | ||||||
Destinations | Europe | ||||||
Headquarters | Timișoara, Romania | ||||||
Key people | Nicolae Petrov, President and CEO | ||||||
Website | carpatair |
Carpatair S.A. is a privately owned Romanian regional airline based in Timișoara, Timiș County.
Carpatair was established in 1999 and started operations in February 1999 in Cluj-Napoca. 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%)
The airline is an IATA member since 2006 and has recently successfully received its 5th IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) registration. Carpatair employed 450 staff at March 2007. The current President and Chief Executive of Carpatair is Nicolae Petrov.
Carpatair recently emerged from the status of insolvency into the one "in reorganization", having continued to offer charter&ACMI solutions. The carrier had filed for Insolvency on January, the 23rd, 2014.
Carpatair operation now consists of Ad-hoc charter, chains and ACMI solutions. As of May 2014, Carpatair dissolved most of their former route network and it no longer operates in Romania or Moldova. From December 2015, it operated under a JP flight code a route between Örebro in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark and under a NJ flight code route between Arlanda Airport and Arvidsjaur/Gällivare in Sweden. From March 2016 until June of the same year, they flew under JP call sign from Tallinn. During spring and summer 2016 one aircraft has been flying under contract for Volotea in France/Italy. From July 2016 they are operating the route Stavanger - Oslo under contract for Norwegian and a number of routes from Brussels Airport on contract from Brussels Airlines. In Summer 2016 Carpatair operates one Aircraft (YR-FKB) on a wetlease for LOT on routes from Warsaw to Amsterdam and Gdansk.
The Carpatair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):