Legend Airines: Regional airline in Romania shuts down as it retires planes - joining likes of Royal Air Philippines
A regional airline in Romania has shut down as it has retired its planes.
Romanian carrier Legend Airlines has officially shut down. It comes after the Bucharest-based airline has had a particularly challenging reputation.
In December 2023, authorities at Châlons Vatry Airport (XCR) in Eastern France seized an Airbus A320 plane stopped for refueling on the way to Nicaragua, CNN reported, on suspicion that some of the 303 Indian citizens aboard were being moved for purposes of human trafficking. A lawyer for Legend Airlines argued that the route was operated by a charter airline and that the carrier itself had not advertised or sold any tickets for the flight.
Despite this, Legend Airlines continued to operate. In November 2024, it secured U.S. Department of Transportation permission to launch charter flights between Romania and the U.S., according to ch-aviation.
However those flights never officially took off. And now ch-aviation is reporting that the airline has officially gone dormant after retiring two of its A340 planes.
At its peak, Legend Airlines had a fleet of four A340-300 planes, two of which the airline leased to Italian low-cost carrier Neos Air, per Aviation Direct. It isn’t the only airline to shut down this year.
Four days into the new year, Royal Air Philippines abruptly revealed that it was suspending all commercial flights, disrupting travel for approximately 4,000 passengers with tickets booked up until March 2026. In India, charter carrier Dove Airlines entered voluntary liquidation went into voluntary liquidation two days later after multiple failed attempts to find an investor.