FlyOne Romania

Is FlyOne Romania safe?

Yes, on what is known so far. FlyOne Romania, the Bucharest-based member of the FlyOne group, has had no accident since Romania's Civil Aeronautical Authority certified it in December 2022, and it flies under the same EU safety rules as TAROM or Wizz Air. The catches are a record of under four years, no IATA safety audit (IOSAIOSAThe IATA Operational Safety Audit, an international audit of an airline's safety management and operations. Every IATA member must pass it.More in the glossary), a fleet of three Airbus jets aged 12 to 18 years, and routes to Tel Aviv and Chișinău that sit close to wars. We score it 79, level with its Moldovan sister FlyOne (79).

Which FlyOne are you flying?

The FlyOne brand covers four companies, and the code on the ticket tells them apart. This page covers Fly One Airlines S.R.L., a Romanian company owned by FlyOne's founder Vladimir Cebotari and Daniel Maleca, son of co-founder Mircea Maleca. It has its own certificate (RO-071), the IATA code OE, the ICAO code FOE and the call sign FIRST EAGLE, and its jets carry Romanian YR- registrations.

The Moldovan FlyOne (5F), FlyOne Armenia (3F) and FlyOne Asia (7Q) are separate airlines with their own certificates. The companies lend each other aircraft with crews. From late 2022 to September 2023 the Romanian A320 flew to and from Chișinău for the Moldovan FlyOne, and in 2024 and 2025 Romanian jets still flew some of its flights. When a YR- jet and its crew fly a flight sold as 5F or 3F, an event on it counts on this page.

A small fleet doing many jobs

FlyOne Romania has three airliners: A320 YR-FIA, built in 2008 and once flown by the Moldovan FlyOne as ER-00004, and two A321s, YR-FIB and YR-FIC, built in 2014 and flown before only by Avianca. That puts the average age at about 14 years. They are ceo-generation jets of the A320 family, a type with an excellent safety record, but without the newer engines and avionics of the neo. The company also operates a Gulfstream G450 business jet.

Much of its work has been for other airlines. In 2023 its A320 flew charters to Egypt for SkyUp's Maltese subsidiary, and on 28 October 2026 flight-tracking data showed YR-FIA over Serbia as a Nile Air flight. In a wet lease like this, FlyOne Romania's crew and certificate fly the aircraft, so its safety record goes with it, even though passengers booked another airline.

Its own routes, cut back and moved

The company began selling its own flights in June 2025, from Bucharest to Brussels, Verona and Tel Aviv, later adding Munich. It announced seven more Bucharest routes for 2026, but by May 2026 it had cancelled almost all of them and was selling only Tel Aviv, Brussels and London Luton. In September it announced its first route from Moldova, Chișinău to Lisbon twice a week from 3 October 2026, and said more Chișinău routes would follow. Ziarul de Gardă, a Moldovan investigative paper, noted that the move came as Moldova's government pressed the founders to sell the Moldovan FlyOne.

Route cuts are a business problem, not a safety one, but they tell you to book with some caution: a flight sold months ahead may not run.

Who watches it

Romania's Civil Aeronautical Authority oversees the airline under EU rules set by EASA, and Romania is in FAA Category 1FAA IASAThe US FAA's check of whether a country's aviation regulator meets ICAO standards. Category 1 means it does; Category 2 means it does not.More in the glossary. That is a stronger system than the Moldovan or Armenian regulators that oversee its sister airlines. The dispute between FlyOne's founders and Moldova's government, including a June 2026 order to sell control of the Moldovan company and an October 2026 prosecutors' search, does not involve the Romanian certificate and is not a safety finding.

What is missing is an outside audit of the airline itself. FlyOne Romania is not an IATA member, so it has no IOSA registrationIOSAThe IATA Operational Safety Audit, an international audit of an airline's safety management and operations. Every IATA member must pass it.More in the glossary; only the Moldovan FlyOne has one. We found no serious incident, but Romania's investigation board site could not be reached and wet-lease events can appear under the customer airline's name, so we score incidents 76 rather than higher.

Before you fly FlyOne Romania

• Check the code and the registration. OE and a YR- jet mean this Romanian airline; 5F with an ER- jet is the Moldovan FlyOne.
• On Tel Aviv flights, check the news on the day. Israel sits inside 2026 conflict-zone bulletins, and flights there change at short notice.
• Do not book tight connections. With three aircraft and a history of route cuts, a cancelled flight may not have a same-day replacement.

How we scored it

EU oversight (86) and a clean but short accident record (86) carry the score. Incidents (76) reflect a thin public record, the fleet (64) is three mid-aged A320-family jets, and the environment (68) is pulled down by Tel Aviv, Chișinău and Middle East wet-lease work. Overall 79.