Founded in 1999, Carpatair is one of the oldest airlines in Romania, with headquarters in Timisoara, and presently a charter and wet lease airline having operated in the aviation field for more than 25 years, by 2024. First regular flights were launched from Cluj to Budapest, and several destinations in northern Italy, in spring 1999. Since then, Carpatair operated on a regional hub & spoke system, with the hub in Timisoara, to destinations in seven countries in Eastern and Western Europe, between 2000 and 2013.

From 2014 Carpatair switched its business model to non-scheduled services providing charter services and wet lease capacity operations on demand.

Carpatair is proud of having been a trendsetter of just culture in Romania, the first airline in Romania, and among the first in Eastern Europe to obtain the IOSA certification, in 2005.