Donavia
Russian airline
JSC "Donavia" (Russian: ОАО «Донавиа») was an Aeroflot subsidiary airline based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Its main bases were Rostov-on-Don Airport and Mineralnye Vody Airport after the Kavminvodyavia bankruptcy. It was known as Aeroflot-Don (Russian: ОАО «Аэрофлот-Дон») from 2000-2009. In the spring of 2016, its operations and aircraft were merged into sister company Rossiya.
01History
The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airline Aeroflot. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was rebranded as Don Airlines ("Donavia") in 1993. It absorbed the Rostov assets of 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 and the airline adopted the Airbus A319-100 and operated for ten years until operations were folded into Rossiya Airlines in 2016.
02Destinations
Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:
Asia
Central Asia
Western Asia
Europe
- Krasnodar, Krasnodar International Airport
- Mineralnye Vody, Mineralnye Vody Airport Focus City
- Moscow Focus City
- 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
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03Fleet
In April 2016, the entire Donavia fleet was reassigned to Rossiya.
| aircraft | in service | orders | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A319 | 10 | 0 | |
| Boeing 737-400 | 3 | 0 | |
| Boeing 737-500 | 7 | 0 |
Retired fleet
| aircraft | introduced | retired | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilyushin Il-86 | unknown | unknown | |
| Tupolev Tu-134 | unknown | 2008 | |
| Tupolev Tu-154 | unknown | 2009 |
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Airbus A319-112, Donavia JP7564367.jpg by Aktug Ates, GFDL 1.2
- Aeroflot-Don Tu-134 RA-65771.jpg by Foma at Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Aeroflot-Don Tupolev Tu-154.jpg by Sergey Krivchikov - Russian AviaPhoto Team, GFDL 1.2
- Ilyushin Il-86 Aeroflot Don.jpg by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 3.0
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