Polet Flight
Russian cargo and passenger airline
CJSC «Polet Flight» (Russian: ЗАО «Авиакомпания „Полёт“», ZAO «Aviakompániya "Polyót"») was an airline based in Voronezh, Russia. It operated a worldwide cargo and domestic passenger charter services from Voronezh, as well as regional passenger and cargo services from Sokol. It was one of two airlines which flew the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, the world's highest gross weight cargo airplane which specialises in oversized freight. Its collapse, over lease payments for these massive aircraft, left only the Volga-Dnepr Airlines/Antonov Airlines joint partnership in this market. Its main base was Chertovitskoye Airport, Voronezh. Polet is the Russian word for flight.
01History
The airline was established and started operations in 1988. In 2002 Polet began serving the agricultural, aeromedical and aerial photography markets. The airline was wholly owned by Anatoly S Karpov (Chief Executive and General Director) and had a 19.5% holding in Voronezhavia.
In December 2013, the carrier announced that it was evaluating the acquisition of five mid size jets for charter operations out of Voronezh.
Polet was sued by Alexander Lebedev, who claimed that it owned US$8 million in lease payments for An-124 aircraft.
Polet suspended both passenger and cargo operations on 24 November 2014 after which a Moscow Arbitration Court on 28 November placed the carrier into administration. Rosaviatsia cancelled Polet's AOC in April 2015 (2015-04).
02Destinations
As of October 2013, Polet Airlines operated scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:
Europe
- Czech Republic
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Heraklion, Heraklion International Airport (Seasonal)
- Rhodes, Rhodes International Airport (Seasonal)
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Russia
Western Asia
- Armenia
- Turkey
- Antalya, Antalya Airport (Charter)
- United Arab Emirates
- Dubai, Dubai International Airport (Charter)(Cargo Only)
03Fleet
The Polet Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of December 2013):
| Aircraft | In fleet | Orders | Passengers | Age (By years) |
Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Y | Total | ||||||||
| Antonov An-30A | 2 | , | Cartography | 35.7 | ||||||
| Antonov An-124-100 | 4 | 5 | Cargo | 16 | ||||||
| Antonov An-148 | 2 | 8 | TBA | |||||||
| BAe 125-800 | 5 | , | 8 | , | 8 | Unknown | ||||
| Ilyushin Il-76TD | 1 | , | Cargo | Unknown | Sold to Zet Avia | |||||
| Ilyushin Il-96T | 3 | , | Cargo | 1.9 | Stored | |||||
| Saab 340B | 5 | 20 | , | 34 | 34 | 19.6 | ||||
| Saab 2000 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 42 | 50 | 12.7 | ||||
| Tupolev Tu-134A | 1 | , | TBA | 31 | ||||||
| Total | 18 | 24 | ||||||||
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Polet Flight”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Polet headquarters in Voronezh.jpg by Constantin Andrievic, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Polet Airlines An-124 swallowing Emirates Airbus A380.jpg by Dmitry Avdeev, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Polet Saab 2000.jpg by Dmitry A. Mottl, CC BY-SA 3.0
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