OREANDA-NEWS. November 15, 2010. The plane of the flight 9U174 landed in Chisinau International Airport, on board there were 70 transit passengers, for their final destination Milan, Istanbul, Athens and Larnaca. On the occasion of this event for the airline transit passengers were given souvenirs, reported the press-centre of Air Moldova.

Iulian Scorpan itself, CEO of Air Moldova, together with Boris Gherasim, Deputy Minister of Transport and Road Infrastructure in Moldova came to greet passengers into the transit area. The official declared: "Our country's geopolitical location is an advantage for the development of transport industry, including transit traffic through the International Airport Chisinau. Air Moldova state company's success is an example of this."

CEO thanked passengers for their loyalty and promised that Air Moldova will continue to develop transit service. "We wish you to return to Moldova with on our direct routes, as tourists," added Iulian Scorpan.

In the period from 1 January 2010 to October 31, 2010 have been transported 7765 transit passengers on the routes operated by Air Moldova from Moscow / St. Petersburg in Chisinau, to European cities from the Air Moldova route network, which includes destinations like Rome, Milan, Athens, Larnaca, Paris, London, Madrid, Lisbon.

This product was launched in May 2009. In the same year, the company has transported 2050 transit passengers while in the first 10 months of the year 2010 this number has increased by 3 times.

Transit passengers are an entirely new category of passengers, which has not existed until now on the air transportations market in our country. For Air Moldova the new category of passengers means increase in the sales volume. For the Chisinau International Airport this represents an additional source of income in the company's budget at the expense of airport charges paid by transit passengers.

If a connection in Chisinau airport is longer than 3 hour, the Air Moldova transit passengers have the opportunity to visit downtown. In this way they could return to Chisinau as tourists.

Most requested destinations by the transit passengers are Моscow-Мilan, Моscow-Rome, Моscow- Istanbul. For these destinations Connection Time is 40-45 minutes.

Air Moldova airline operates direct flights to 17 destinations - Frankfurt, Vienna, Bucharest, Istanbul, Lisbon, Madrid, London, Athens, Larnaca, Rome, Milan, Verona, Paris, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Munich and Kiev, offering to its passengers two Class of service - Business and Economy.

Air Moldova is the biggest Moldavian airline and it has more than 50 % of air transportations registered on the national market.

From 10th of May, Air Moldova’s fleet was increased by a brand new aircraft Embraer 190 that arrived on base airport in Chisinau directly from manufacturer. The aircraft was named "Stefan cel Mare" during inauguration ceremony.