Donavia
Донавиа
IATA ICAO Callsign
D9[1] DNV[1] DONAVIA[1]
Founded15 June 1925 (as a squadron)
Ceased operations27 March 2016 (merged with Rossiya)
HubsRostov-on-Don Airport[1]
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer programAeroflot Bonus[2]
AllianceSkyTeam (affiliate)[2]
Fleet size20
Destinations20
Parent companyAeroflot (100%)
HeadquartersRostov-on-Don, Russia
Key peopleMikhail Stepanovich Kritskiy (Director General)[1]
Websiteaeroflot-don.ru

JSC "Donavia" (Russian: ОАО «Донавиа») 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] 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.

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 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 Airbus A319-151 and operated for ten years until operations were folded into Rossiya Airlines in 2016.

Destinations

Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:

Asia

Central Asia

 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan

Western Asia

 Armenia
 Israel
 Turkey

Europe

 Russia
 Russia /  Ukraine *

^* 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.[6][7]

Donavia fleet as of 2015
aircraft in service orders
Airbus A319 10 0
Boeing 737-400 3 0
Boeing 737-500 7 0

Retried fleet

aircraft introduced retried
Ilyushin Il-86 unknown unknown
Tupolev Tu-134 unknown 2008
Tupolev Tu-154 unknown 2009

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 20 February 2007, p. 122
  2. 1 2 3 "UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AEROFLOT". 2 October 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Контакты авиакомпании Archived 6 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine." 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. ↑ "Scheduled flights". INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON. JSC Donavia. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Donavia Fleet Details and History".
  7. ↑ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Rossiya

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