AirBridgeCargo
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| IATA code : | RU |
| ICAO code : | ABW |
| Call sign : | AIRBRIDGE CARGO |
| Founding: | 2004 |
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Moscow , Russia
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| Home airport : | Moscow Sheremetyevo |
| Company form: | Limited Liability Company |
| IATA prefix code : | 580 |
| Management: | Denis Ilin ( CEO ) |
| Freight volume: | 565,535 t (2017) |
| Fleet size: | 19 (+ 16 orders) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.airbridgecargo.com |
AirBridgeCargo Airlines ( Russian ЭйрБриджКарго ) is a Russian cargo airline based in Moscow and based at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport . It is a subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Airlines and the airline with by far the largest cargo volume in Russia.
history
In 2004, Volga-Dnepr Airlines founded a cargo airline called AirBridgeCargo, which began operating on the international market. AirBridgeCargo is the first Russian cargo airline to use the Boeing 747-200F to connect Europe with Asia via Russia. On January 27, 2012 AirBridgeCargo was one of the first airlines to receive the new Boeing 747-8F .
In 2015, at the Paris Air Show, the letter of intent was announced that the Volga-Dnepr Group wanted to buy more than the existing six Boeing 747-8F 20s and that the Boeing Group wanted to buy an Antonov An-124 from Volga-Dnepr Airlines for the longer term for the logistical needs of Boeing rented.
network
AirBridgeCargo says it flies to 37 destinations in Europe, Asia and North America. The main hubs are in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk . The transpolar flights from Krasnoyarsk to North America have existed since 2007.
Destinations
- Russia / CIS: Yekaterinburg , Krasnoyarsk , Moscow , Karagandy
- Europe: Amsterdam , Budapest , Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt-Hahn , Leipzig , London , Liege , Milan , Munich , Oslo , Paris , Saragossa
- Asia: Chengdu , Chongqing , Dhaka , Dubai , Hanoi , Ho Chi Minh City , Hong Kong , Incheon , Beijing , Shanghai , Shenzhen , Singapore , Taipei , Tokyo , Zhengzhou
- USA: Anchorage , Atlanta , Los Angeles , Chicago , Columbus , Dallas
fleet
Current fleet
As of May 2020, the AirBridgeCargo fleet consists of 19 aircraft with an average age of 7.6 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Average age
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| Boeing 747-400F | 2 | 11.3 years | ||
| Boeing 747-400ERF | 4th | 12.6 years | ||
| Boeing 747-8F | 13 | 13 | the exact number of open orders is uncertain | 5.5 years |
| Boeing 777F | 3 | |||
| total | 19th | 16 | 7.6 years |
The AirBridgeCargo fleet is maintained in Germany by Volga-Dnepr Technics GmbH at Frankfurt am Main Airport and at Leipzig / Halle Airport by AMTES GmbH in a specially built hangar.
Former aircraft types
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ airbridgecargo.com (English), accessed October 31, 2013
- ↑ a b Russian Aviation Agency : Freight volume of Russian airlines in 2016/2017. (PDF, 236 KB) Retrieved January 27, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ AirBridgeCargo receives first 747-8F. airliners.de, January 28, 2012, accessed on January 28, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Ch-aviation : Russia's Volga-Dnepr to order twenty B747-8 freighters (English), accessed on July 8, 2015
- ↑ dt-trend.com: AirBridgeCargo Airlines - Our network. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b AirBridgeCargo Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 5, 2020, accessed on May 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Boeing delivers 100th B747-8 - two freighters for Air Bridge Cargo. November 19, 2015, accessed May 21, 2020 .
- ↑ DAE leases 3 new Boeing 777 freighters to AirBridgeCargo - DAE. In: dubaiaerospace.com. June 19, 2019, accessed May 21, 2020 (American English).