Moscow Airways
| Moscow Airways | |
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| IATA code : | M8 |
| ICAO code : | MSC |
| Call sign : | MOSCOW AIRWAYS |
| Founding: | 1991 |
| Operation stopped: | 1996 |
| Seat: |
Moscow , Russia
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| Home airport : | Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Moscow Airways ceased operations in 1996. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Moscow Airways was a Russian airline that ceased operations in 1996. The internationally active company mainly carried out tourist charter flights and freight transport.
history
The state airline Aeroflot was restructured after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and its regional departments were outsourced as an independent company. These should continue to operate the national scheduled flight connections of Aeroflot and also offer charter flights. The breakdown resulted in numerous new airlines, including Moscow Airways , whose initial fleet consisted mainly of Ilyushin Il-62 aircraft that were taken over by Aeroflot .
From mid-1993 Moscow Airways operated under its own name. The company predominantly operated touristic charter flights on behalf of the tour operator MVL International Travel Agency , which also held shares in the company. The planned establishment of a regional scheduled flight network, which should be operated with aircraft of the type Beriev Be-32 , could not be realized. Instead, in addition to the charter services, the company used an Ilyushin Il-76 on international cargo flights, which, after the takeover of further cargo aircraft of the Antonov An-12 and Antonow An-32 types , were increasingly carried out from 1994 onwards.
Due to safety concerns, the Russian aviation authority revoked the company's Air Operator Certificate in September 1995 . Previously, the company had rented an Antonov An-32B freighter with its crew to Scibe Airlift and transferred it to Zaire . There the aircraft was still used without an operating license. The plane crashed on January 8, 1996 while taking off and caused the Kinshasa air disaster that killed at least 299 people.
fleet
- Antonov An-12BP
- Antonov An-32B
- Beriev Be-32K (An aircraft was painted in the company's colors and shown at aviation shows, but was not adopted by them.)
- Ilyushin Il-62M
- Ilyushin Il-76TD
- Ilyushin Il-86
- Tupolev Tu-154B-2
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight International, April 19, 1994, p. 28 [1]
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 94/95
- ↑ Flight International, June 22, 1993, p. 17 [2]
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, Edition 95/96
- ↑ Flight International, January 23, 1996, p. 8 [3]
- ↑ The Forgotten Disaster in Zaire, William Henry, 2006 http://www.airliners.net/aviation-articles/read.main?id=90 ( Memento from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ jp airline-fleets international, various issues