• Code: 2M
• Name: Moldavian Airlines
• Tel: +373 22 549339
• Fax: n.a.
• E-Mail: checkin@mdv.md
• Foundation: 1997
• Country: Moldova
• Web: www.mdv.md

History

First flights were a scheduled route using an Yakovlev Yak-42 short haul jet leased from Ukraine which was flown in basic Aeroflot livery but with Moldavian Airlines titles, as were most former Soviet Union countries' airliners at that time. The Yak also had the original Moldavian Airlines' logo on the fin green on white.
In 1995 the Yak-42 was returned and replaced with two purchased Yak-40 jets. The fleet was changed again in 1996 when Moldavian Airlines chose the larger Tupolev Tu-134.

Moldavian Airlines understood that there was no perspective in its activity while using obsolete Soviet aircraft. So in 1997 it started a programme of renewal of its fleet. The airline added modern western aircraft in the form of a Saab 340 turboprop twin, leased from former Crossair. The Saab 340 was introduced in the new Moldavian Airlines livery - an attractive two-tone green design with the airline's ICAO code 'MDV' on the fin in white.

At present Moldavian Airlines is solving the problems of route profitability: using flexible price policy, improving the service and looking for non-standard solutions in the market. As one of the ways of solving these problems 'we think of using small planes on short-distance routes' - says Moldavian Airlines' President & CEO Mr. Nicolae Petrov.
 
Charter flights are made regularly to Antalya in Turkey, Turkmenbashi in Turkmenia, Aktau in Kazakhstan, Bucharest in Romania, Lisbon in Portugal and Debrecen in Hungary.
 
Moldavian Airlines became a joint Swiss-Moldovan company in November 1999. It created a partner airline: Carpatair based in Romania, being managed as a group-member together with Moldavian Airlines.

In 1999 Moldavian Airlines became a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Multilateral Interline Traffic Agreements and Clearing House.