Donavia

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Donavia
Донавиа
Donavia logo.svg
IATA ICAO Callsign
D9[1] DNV[1] DONAVIA[1]
Founded2000
Ceased operations2016 (merged with Rossiya)
HubsRostov-on-Don Airport[1]
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer programAeroflot Bonus[2]
AllianceSkyTeam (Affiliate)[2]
Fleet size10
Destinations20
Parent companyAeroflot (100%)
HeadquartersRostov-on-Don, Russia
Key peopleMikhail Stepanovich Kritskiy (Director General)[1]
Websiteaeroflot-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[]

Donavia Airbus A319-100.
Aeroflot-Don Tupolev Tu-134 in 2006
Aeroflot-Don Tupolev Tu-154 in 2008
Aeroflot-Don Ilyushin Il-86 in 2008

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
 Uzbekistan
  • Tashkent – Tashkent International Airport

Western Asia[]

 Armenia
  • Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport
 Israel
  • Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion International Airport
 Turkey

Europe[]

 Russia
 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[]

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ a b c "UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AEROFLOT". 2 October 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Контакты авиакомпании." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272."
  4. ^ "Directory:World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 48. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia"
  5. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 47.
  6. ^ "Scheduled flights". INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON. JSC Donavia. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  7. ^ "Donavia Fleet Details and History".
  8. ^ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Rossiya[permanent dead link]

External links[]

Media related to Donavia at Wikimedia Commons

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