JSC "Donavia" () was an Aeroflot subsidiary airline based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia."Контакты авиакомпании ." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272.""Directory:World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 48. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia" Its main bases were Rostov-on-Don Airport and Mineralnye Vody Airport after the Kavminvodyavia bankruptcy. It was known as Aeroflot-Don () from 2000–2009. In the spring of 2016, its operations and aircraft were merged into sister company Rossiya.
History
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.A New Look for Rossiya Airliner World June 2016 page 10
Destinations Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:
Asia Central Asia
Dushanbe – Dushanbe International Airport Khujand – Khujand Airport
Tashkent – Tashkent International Airport
Western Asia
Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport
Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion International Airport
Antalya – Antalya Airport Istanbul – Istanbul Atatürk Airport
Europe
Krasnodar – Krasnodar International Airport Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport Focus City Moscow Focus City Moscow Domodedovo Airport Vnukovo International Airport 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 / Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport
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. +Donavia fleet as of 2015aircraft in serviceorders Airbus A319100 Boeing 737-4003 0Boeing 737-50070 Retired fleet +aircraftintroducedretiredIlyushin Il-86unknown unknownTupolev Tu-134unknown2008Tupolev Tu-154unknown2009
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