| Airline: | Moldavian Airlines |
| Fleet Size: | 5 |
| Destinations: | Charter |
| Iata: | 2M |
| Icao: | MDV |
| Callsign: | MOLDAVIAN |
| Parent: | Carpatair |
| Founded: | 1994 |
| Ceased: | 2014 |
| Headquarters: | Chişinău, Moldova |
| Website: | mdv.md |
Moldavian Airlines was[1] an airline with its head office on the property of Chişinău International Airport in Chişinău in Moldova.[2] It operated scheduled international services from Chişinău to destinations in Romania and Italy. Its main base was Chişinău International Airport.[3]
Moldavian Airlines was established on 26 July 1994 and started operations on 19 August 1994. It was the first private airline in Moldova. It became a joint Swiss-Moldovan company in November 1999, forming a partnership with Carpatair, a regional airline based in Romania.[3] The Moldavian Airlines air operator's certificate permitted the transport of passengers, goods and mail (at July 2007).[4]
In 2005, Moldavian Airlines transported 91,200 passengers. In 2006, 89,200 passengers were transported. In 2007 50,000 passengers were transported to Budapest. In 2008 the passenger number declined to 45,700 passengers.
The airline shut down and ceased all operations in 2014.[5]
Moldavian Airlines carried out flights for Carpatair, a Romanian airline based at Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport.
The Moldavian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
| Boeing 737-300 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Leased from Carpatair | |
| Fokker 70 / Fokker 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Transferred to Carpatair | |
| Saab 340 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Sold to another airline | |
| Saab 2000 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Both sold, one to Golden Air | |
| Yakovlev Yak-40 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Leased from Air Moldova (ER-JGA). | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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