Avies

Avies
IATA code :	-
ICAO code :	AIA
Call sign :	AVIES
Founding:	1991
Operation stopped:	2016
Seat:	Tallinn , Estonia
Home airport :	Tallinn Airport
Management:	Allan Sholl ( CEO )
Fleet size:	10
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.flyavies.ee
Avies ceased operations in 2016. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Avies was an Estonian airline based in Tallinn and based at Tallinn Airport .

history

Avies was founded on April 11, 1991. In July 2015, bankruptcy proceedings were opened against Avies. The economic difficulties led to the company's Air Operator Certificate being revoked for six months in April 2016 . The flight routes to Kuressaare and Kärdla were then put out to tender and went to Transaviabaltika .

Destinations

Avies operated mainly domestic flights from Tallinn . Only Stockholm / Arlanda was served internationally . It also offers taxi and charter flights .

fleet

BAe Jetstream 32EP from Avies

As of April 2017, the Avies fleet consisted of ten aircraft:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
BAe Jetstream 31	04th
BAe Jetstream 32EP	01
Learjet 31A	01		Business aircraft
Learjet 60	02
Let L-410UVP-E	01
Raytheon Hawker 750	01		Business jet
total	10	-

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Avies  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Avies website (Estonian, English, Swedish)
• Photos of the Avies on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/airline/AIE
2. ↑ ch-aviation - Estonian CAA grounds Avies over safety concerns, April 2, 2016 (English), accessed on October 29, 2016
3. ↑ news.err.ee - Lithuanian Transaviabaltika wins tender to fly to Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, May 27, 2016 (English), accessed on October 29, 2016
4. ↑ flyavies.ee - Flight plan ( Memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 18, 2017
5. ↑ airframes.org - AIA Fleet (English) retrieved on April 18, 2017