Carpatair
Carpatair S.A. is a privately owned Romanian charter and former regional airline headquartered in Timișoara.
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| Founded | 1999 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
| Destinations | Europe | ||||||
| Headquarters | Timișoara, Romania | ||||||
| Key people | Nicolae Petrov, President and CEO | ||||||
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| Website | carpatair | ||||||
History
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.[1]
Carpatair 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 23 January 2014.[2] The statute used was Romanian Law 85/2006, which is very similar to the Chapter 11 status known in the USA, providing the company a special legal status.
Destinations
As of May 2014, Carpatair dissolved most of its former route network; it no longer operates in Romania or Moldova. Carpatair operations now consists of ad-hoc and ACMI charters.
From December 2015, Carpatair operated for Adria Airways between Örebro in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark, and also under an NJ flight code route between Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Arvidsjaur/Gällivare in Sweden. From March 2016 until June of the same year, they flew under the Adria Airways call sign from Tallinn. During spring and summer 2016 one aircraft flew under contract for Volotea in France and Italy. From July 2016 they operated the route Stavanger - Oslo under contract for Norwegian Air Shuttle, and a number of routes from Brussels Airport on contract from Brussels Airlines. In summer 2016 Carpatair operated one aircraft on a wetlease for LOT Polish Airlines on routes from Warsaw to Amsterdam and Gdańsk.[3] Between April and May 2017, Carpatair operated services between Berlin-Tegel and Prague on behalf of now defunct Air Berlin. During the 2018 summer schedule, one aircraft was wetleased to KLM to operate routes from Amsterdam to Edinburgh, Birmingham and Hanover.
Fleet
Current fleet
The Carpatair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2017):[4]
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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| Embraer 190 | — | 3 | 112 | Deliveries start in 2019. Replacing Fokker 100.[5] |
| Fokker 100 | 2 | — | 105 | Two aircraft leased to KLM Cityhopper.
To be phased out by 2019-2020. [5] |
| Total | 2 | 3 |
Retired fleet
| Aircraft | Total | Introduced | Retired |
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| ATR 72-500 | 2 | 2013 | 2013 |
| Boeing 737-300 | 2 | 2012 | 2014 |
| Fokker 70 | 3 | 2010 | 2013 |
| Saab 340 | 5 | 1999 | 2007 |
| Saab 2000 | 15 | 1999 | 2013 |
| Yakovlev Yak-40 | 1 | 1999 | 2003 |
Incidents and Accidents
- On 2 February 2013, a Carpatair ATR 72–212A operating on behalf of Alitalia experienced a hard landing because of strong gusty wind at Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Rome while arriving from Pisa. Sixteen people were injured, two seriously, of which one was the co-pilot.[6]
References
- Flight International 3 April 2007
- Carpatair files for insolvency, continues operations, 2014-01-27, ch-aviation.com
- http://technowinki.onet.pl/lotnictwo/nowy-samolot-we-flocie-lot-u-fokker-100/h2jr6b
- "Global Airline Guide 2017 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2017): 29.
- Bobon, Gabriel (2019-07-20). "Carpatair achiziționează trei avioane Embraer E190". BoardingPass.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-07-21.
- Official italian accident report issued by ANSV and its english translation. Aviation Accidents Database . Retrieved 25 February 2017.
