Interavia Airlines
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Founded | 1998 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2008 | ||||||
Hubs | Domodedovo International Airport | ||||||
Focus cities | Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, Anapa, Magadan | ||||||
Fleet size | 7 | ||||||
Destinations | 7 | ||||||
Headquarters | [[Moscow] Russia]] | ||||||
Key people | Gen. Director Vladimir N. Gloshkin | ||||||
Website | www |
Interavia Airlines (Russian: Авиакомпания Интеравиа) was an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operated scheduled and charter passenger services. Its main base was Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow.[1] The Russian aviation authority suspended their flights from 17 October 2008.[2]
History[]
The airline was established as Astair Airlines in 1998 and became Interavia Airlines on 18 May 2005.[1] It started regular services from Moscow in July 2005.[3] Interavia Airlines was registered as a corporation with publicly traded stock, with no shares owned by the Russian Government.
Because of financial difficulties, the airline suspended operations on October 9, 2008[4] and shortly thereafter lost its operating licence. Astair only flew with a few (or one) Yakovlev Yak-42.
Destinations[]
As at October 2008, Interavia Airlines operated flights to:[5]
- Russia
- Adler/Sochi (Sochi International Airport)
- Anapa (Anapa Airport)
- Arkhangelsk (Talagi Airport)
- Blagoveshchensk (Ignatyevo Airport)
- Irkutsk (Irkutsk Airport)
- Magadan (Sokol Airport)
- Makhachkala (Uytash Airport)
- Mineralnye Vody (Mineralnye Vody Airport)
- Moscow (Domodedovo Airport)
Fleet[]
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The Interavia Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of 6 October 2008):[6]
Aircraft | Total |
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Tupolev Tu-154M | 2 |
Yakovlev Yak-42 | 1 |
Ilyushin Il-62 | 4 |
Total | 7 |
The corporation planned to buy several Italian ATR-42 40-50-seat turboprops and some Boeing aircraft.
2007 operation report[]
- Passengers flown: 289,382 (increased 2.63 times as compared to 2006 – 109728 pax)
- Freight: 3368.09 tonnes
- Total flight time: 10546 hours (increased 94% as compared to 2006 period – 5430 hours)
References[]
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 93.
- ^ "Russia suspends regional airlines". BBC News. 15 October 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
- ^ Domodedovo International Airport – New Interavia services Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine 15 August 2006
- ^ "9 Airlines Grounded Over Unpaid Debts, 'St Petersburg Times', 17 October, 2008". Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
- ^ (in Russian) Polet-Sirena
- ^ "CH-Aviation - Airline News, Fleet Lists & More". www.ch-aviation.ch. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14.
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