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Air Moldova

Air Moldova is the national flag carrier of Moldova that has its base at Chisinau in Moldova. It is the operator of regular scheduled flights to several destinations across Europe. Chisinau International Airport is the primary base of Air Moldova. The air operator of Air Moldova allows it to carry goods, mails and passengers.

Air Moldova was founded and began its offering its services in 1992 in accordance with the local unit of Aeroflot. The Republic of Moldova is the sole owner of Air Moldova, this company being comprised of 598 staffs. It became one of the members of IATA on the 13th of July in 2004. The first western plane was introduced in the Air Moldova fleet in 2001 when an Embraer 145 replaced a Russian aircraft. The corporate logo and aircraft livery was altered in 2003 and on the 15th of December in 2004 Air Moldova began the Air Moldova Club, its frequent flyer programs.

Air Moldova has carried 251, 800 passengers out of the total 480,000 passengers of Moldova in 2005. In 2006 it transported 280,000 passengers out of the total 530,000 passengers whereas out of 635,000 passengers availing flights from Moldova between the months of January and November in 2006, Air Moldova served 316,000 passengers. In 2007 the total number of passengers traveling on Air Moldova increased by 20% and in the same year the total revenue earned by Air Moldova was 840 thousand US dollars during the initial months. Air Moldova has assumed its low cost model from the 1st of January 2008.

This step has been taken by it in order to become more competitive with the further liberalization of the aviation market of Moldova by the end of this year. This step will also draw more passengers, who avail the conventional means of traveling on land. The first low fare flight of Air Moldova will be scheduled for Moscow and the airfares begin from 39 euro for one way air travel exclusive of the taxes.

Destinations of Air Moldova:

International destinations - Bucharest, Frankfurt, Athens, Larnaca, Istanbul, Milan, London, Paris, Moscow, Vienna, Prague and Rome
Regular charter services – Sharm El Sheikh, Antalya
Flights of Tandem-Aero to Tel Aviv

Fleet of Air Moldova:
Two Airbus A320-200s
One Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia
One Tupolev Tu-134A-3
One Yakovlev Yak-40 If you want to collect further info on the airlines of Moldova you can browse through the other valuable pages on our site flightsu.com.