Windrose Airlines
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| Founded | 28 October 2003 | ||||||
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| Operating bases | Boryspil International Airport, Dnipro International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 11 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine | ||||||
| Key people | Volodymyr Kamenchuk and Yuri Yuvchenko | ||||||
| Website | windrose | ||||||
WINDROSE Airlines, legally Wind Rose Aviation Company, is a Ukrainian charter airline based at Boryspil International Airport. Founded on 28 October 2003, the airline's headquarters is in Kyiv; it operates charter flights to destinations in Europe, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.
History[]
The airline was established in 2003 to provide charter flights to destinations in Europe and the Middle East. It is most probably part of the Privat Group of billionaire Igor Kolomoysky which also owned PrivatBank before it was nationalised,[2] Ukraine International Airlines, as well as formerly owned now-defunct airlines Cimber Sterling, Donbassaero, Dniproavia and AeroSvit.[3]
In 2006, regular flights to Moscow and Kaliningrad in Russia were initiated. In 2008, the company expanded its route network, then sharply reduced it.[4] Since 2008, Windrose Airlines has focused on charter flights. From 2010 to the present day, the airline has been licensed to operate regular flights, should the need arise. The airline was the first to carry out flights basing its aircraft at various airports in Ukraine.
In December 2019, the company rebranded. In June 2020, the company started domestic flights in Ukraine.
Destinations[]
Windrose Airlines operates scheduled and charter flights to and from the following destinations:[5]
- Austria
- Croatia
- Egypt
- Hurghada – Hurghada International Airport
- Sharm el-Sheikh – Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport
- Finland
- Italy
- Montenegro
- North Macedonia
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Tenerife – Tenerife Airport
- Turkey
- Antalya – Antalya International Airport
- Ukraine
- Dnipro - Dnipro International Airport
- Ivano-Frankivsk – Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport
- Kharkiv – Kharkiv International Airport
- Kyiv – Boryspil International Airport
- Lviv – Lviv International Airport
- Mykolaiv - Mykolaiv Airport
- Odessa - Odesa International Airport
- Uzhhorod - Uzhhorod International Airport[6]
Fleet[]
The Windrose Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of November 2021):[7]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | 1 | 180 | |
| Airbus A321-200 | 5 | — | 218 | |
| ATR 72-600 | 6 | 2 | 70/72 | |
| Embraer 145 | 3 | — | 48/49 | To be retired in 2021 |
| Hawker 800XP | 2 | — | 8 | |
| Total | 15 | 3 | ||
In the past, Wind Rose Aviation used an Airbus A330-200, 3 McDonell Douglas MD-82 and 1 McDonell Douglas MD-83.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ "IATA – Airline and Airport Code Search". iata.org. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ^ "Ukraine's biggest lender PrivatBank nationalised". BBC. 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Ukraine Billionaire To Expand Aviation Empire". 11 June 2011.
- ^ "Windrose Airlines on ch-aviation". ch-aviation. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Destinations – WINDROSE". Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Uzhhorod Airport resumed flights after a two-year break, (2 June 2021)
(in Ukrainian) Uzhhorod Airport will be fully operational in September, Ukrayinska Pravda (31 May 2021) - ^ "Windrose Airlines Fleet Details and History". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
External links[]
Media related to Wind Rose Aviation at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in English)
- Airlines of Ukraine
- Airlines established in 2003
- Privat Group
- Ukrainian companies established in 2003