Donavia
| Donavia Донавиа |
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| IATA code : | D9 |
| ICAO code : | DNV |
| Call sign : | DONAVIA |
| Founding: | 2000 |
| Operation stopped: | 2016 |
| Seat: |
Rostov on Don , Russia
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| Home airport : | Rostov on Don |
| IATA prefix code : | 733 |
| Management: | Mikhail Stepanowitsch Krizki ( General Director ) |
| Passenger volume: | 1.48 million (2015) |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Success Formula |
| Fleet size: | 11 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.aeroflot-don.ru |
| Donavia Donavia ceased operations in 2016. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
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Donavia ( Russian ОАО "Донавиа" ) was a Russian airline based in Rostov-on-Don and based at Rostov-on-Don Airport . It was a subsidiary of Aeroflot and was formerly called Aeroflot-Don .
history
Donavia was founded in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union from the split up of the state airline Aeroflot. Aeroflot took over the airline again on April 13, 2000 and renamed it Aeroflot-Don from 2001 . On September 25, 2009 it was renamed Donavia.
On March 27, 2016, Donavia and Orenair discontinued their own flight operations due to the merger with sister airline Rossiya . At that time, the airline had carried 209,478 passengers since the beginning of the year.
Destinations
In addition to destinations within Russia, Donavia also flew to destinations in Western Europe and the Middle East, including Saint Petersburg , Munich , Berlin and Tel Aviv .
fleet
As of March 2015, the Donavia fleet consisted of eleven aircraft:
- 9 Airbus A319-100
- 1 Airbus A319-100 (LR) (CJ)
- 1 Boeing 737-400 (decommissioned)
Incidents
The Donavia recorded an airplane hijacking in its history :
- On October 25, 1994, Donavia flight 156 was hijacked on the route from Ashgabat via Makhachkala to Rostov-on-Don after a stopover in Makhachkala. The plane then returned to Makhachkala. The kidnappers demanded two million US dollars and a flight to Iran . Some of the passengers were allowed to leave the aircraft, a Yakovlev Jak-40 ( registration number RA-88254), on the same day, the rest only on the following day after paying USD 800,000 of the required USD 2 million. The hijacker stayed on board the aircraft with two of the three crew members. Shortly after midnight on October 27, the remaining crew members were also allowed to leave the aircraft. In the end, the kidnapper blew himself up with a self-made explosive device.
See also
Web links
- Donavia website (Russian, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airlines 2015/2016. (PDF) Retrieved August 25, 2017 (Russian).
- ↑ Enlarged Rossiya gets a new dress , accessed on May 27, 2016
- ↑ Ch-aviation : - Donavia Fleet Details and History (English) accessed on March 7, 2015
- ↑ Data on the airline Donavia in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on June 1, 2016.
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)