Carpatair turnover surges to 73m euros

Carpatair, the second largest carrier on the Romanian market, has budgeted a 15% turnover increase for this year, to 85 million euros. The company closed last year with a 73 million-euro turnover, up 35% against the previous year, also seeing a 28% increase in the number of passengers, to over 500,000 people. “The increase in the number of passengers came as a result of more flights becoming available,” said company representatives. The number of flights therefore rose 25% against the previous year, with the carrier having introduced five new destinations, Suceava, Satu Mare, Paris (France), Frankfurt (Germany) and Lviv (Ukraine). The 25% growth rate was also helped by the introduction of more frequent flights on certain routes, as well as by the creation of an additional evening flight route to Munich and by the shift to daily flights to Lviv (Ukraine). There were also other factors affecting the increase, such as the introduction of the flights from Timisoara-Budapest and back, in collaboration with the Hungarian operator Malev.