Georgian Airways
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| IATA code : | A9 |
| ICAO code : | TGZ |
| Call sign : | TAMAZI |
| Founding: | 1993 (as Airzena) |
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Tbilisi , Georgia
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| Home airport : | Tbilisi |
| Company form: | Privately owned |
| Management: | Givi Davitashvili |
| Fleet size: | 7th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.georgian-airways.com |
Georgian Airways is Georgia's national airline based in Tbilisi and based at Tbilisi Airport .
history
The company was founded in September 1993 under the name Airzena and initially focused on charter flights. From 1997 scheduled flights to Vienna , Dubai and Tashkent were added. Since then, the company has been cooperating with Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa .
In 1999 Airzena merged with Air Georgia to form Airzena Georgian Airlines and became the largest airline in Georgia. In October 2004 the company was renamed Georgian Airways .
On October 16, 2011, it was announced that Georgian Airways had entered into a contract with Boeing for the purchase of two Boeing 737-700s and that they were interested in purchasing the Boeing 787 for delivery from 2018.
The company's logo is a white Bordschgali on a red background. On the vertical tail of the aircraft, the Bordschgali but was removed, in its place in 2004 Flag of Georgia mounted on a red background.
Destinations
Georgian Airways serves domestic destinations as well as cities in Europe and the Middle East from its aviation hubs . In German-speaking countries is Vienna fly; from March 2018 also Berlin (SXF).
fleet
As of March 2020, the Georgian Airways fleet consists of seven aircraft with an average age of 14.3 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats ( Business / Economy ) |
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| Boeing 737-800 | 1 | with winglets fitted | ||
| Bombardier CRJ200 | 2 | 50 (6/44) | ||
| Embraer 190 | 3 | 97 (9/88) | ||
| Embraer 195 | 1 | - open - | ||
| total | 7th | - |
Former aircraft types
Incidents
- On April 4, 2011, a Bombardier CRJ100 ( registration number 4L-GAE ) of Georgian Airways, which was operated on behalf of the United Nations , crashed during the approach to Kinshasa-Ndjili airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The plane took off with 33 people, including 20 UN employees, in the eastern Congolese city of Kisangani . Only one passenger survived.
Trivia
In the Georgian city of Rustavi , a decommissioned and converted Yakovlev Jak-42 of the airline is used as a kindergarten .
See also
Web links
- Georgian Airways website (English, Georgian, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where we fly , airzena.com (English), accessed on June 7, 2014
- ↑ - https://www.georgian-airways.com/. Accessed February 22, 2018 (en-EN).
- ^ Airzena Georgian Airways Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Our Fleet , georgian-airways.com (English), accessed December 23, 2014
- ↑ The Aviation Herald - Crash: Georgian Airways CRJ1 at Kinshasa on Apr 4th 2011, missed the runway and broke up , accessed on August 25, 2015
- ^ Accident report CRJ-100 4L-GAE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 18, 2016.
- ^ Georgian teacher makes plane to kindergarten , Die Zeit , October 30, 2012