Donavia
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Founded | 2000 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2016 (merged with Rossiya) | ||||||
Hubs | Rostov-on-Don Airport[1] | ||||||
Focus cities |
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Frequent-flyer program | Aeroflot Bonus[2] | ||||||
Alliance | SkyTeam (Affiliate)[2] | ||||||
Fleet size | 10 | ||||||
Destinations | 20 | ||||||
Parent company | Aeroflot (100%) | ||||||
Headquarters | Rostov-on-Don, Russia | ||||||
Key people | Mikhail Stepanovich Kritskiy (Director General)[1] | ||||||
Website | aeroflot-don.ru |
JSC "Donavia" (Russian: ОАО «Донавиа»), later Aeroflot-Don (Russian: ОАО «Аэрофлот-Дон»), was an Aeroflot subsidiary[2] airline based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.[3][4] Its main bases were Rostov-on-Don Airport and Mineralnye Vody Airport after the Kavminvodyavia bankruptcy.[1] In the spring of 2016, its operations were merged into sister company Rossiya.
History[]
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The airline was established as Donavia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It absorbed the Rostov assets of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, and was one of many such "Babyflots" to emerge in the early 1990s. However, the airline was purchased by Aeroflot in 2000 and began to operate as Aeroflot-Don on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to the Middle East and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name.[5]
Destinations[]
Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:
Asia[]
Central Asia[]
Tajikistan
- Dushanbe – Dushanbe International Airport
- Khujand – Khujand Airport
Uzbekistan
- Tashkent – Tashkent International Airport
Western Asia[]
Armenia
- Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport
Israel
- Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion International Airport
Turkey
- Antalya – Antalya Airport[6]
- Istanbul – Istanbul Atatürk Airport
Europe[]
Russia
- Krasnodar – Krasnodar International Airport
- Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport Focus City
- Moscow Focus City
- Moscow Domodedovo Airport
- Vnukovo International Airport
- Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport
- Rostov-on-Don – Rostov-on-Don Airport Hub
- Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport
- Sochi – Sochi International Airport Focus City
- Stavropol – Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport
- Volgograd – Volgograd International Airport
- Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport
Russia /
Ukraine *
- Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport
^* The political status of Crimea is the subject of a political and territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
Fleet[]
In April 2016, the entire Donavia fleet was reassigned to Rossiya.[7][8]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 20 February 2007, p. 122
- ^ a b c "UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AEROFLOT". 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
- ^ "Контакты авиакомпании." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272."
- ^ "Directory:World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 48. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia"
- ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 47.
- ^ "Scheduled flights". INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON. JSC Donavia. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ "Donavia Fleet Details and History".
- ^ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Rossiya[permanent dead link]
External links[]
Media related to Donavia at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Russian)
- Defunct airlines of Russia
- 1992 establishments in Russia
- 2016 disestablishments in Russia
- Airlines established in 1992
- Airlines disestablished in 2016
- Former Aeroflot divisions
- Former SkyTeam members
- Russia transport-related lists
- Companies based in Rostov-on-Don