Polet Airlines

Polet Airlines ; ЗАО Авиакомпания "Полёт"
IATA code :	YQ
ICAO code :	POT
Call sign :	POLET
Founding:	1988
Operation stopped:	2014
Seat:	Voronezh , Russia
Turnstile :	Ulyanovsk; Voronezh; Moscow; Ekaterinburg;
Home airport :	Voronezh
Management:	Anatoly Karpov
Fleet size:	16 (+ 1 order)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.polet.ru
	Polet Airlines ; ЗАО Авиакомпания “Полёт” ceased operations in 2014. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Polet Airlines ( Russian ЗАО Авиакомпания "Полёт" , German Poljot ) was a Russian airline based in Voronezh . It operated primarily international cargo flights, but also some continental passenger flights. Polet was the sole operator of the Il-96-400T .

history

Il-96-400T

Polet Airlines was founded in 1988. Flight operations began in the same year with an Antonov An-30A , which completed cargo and passenger flights for gas production companies in northern Russia. The fleet was continuously expanded through orders from other gas companies and the Russian air force .

In the mid-1990s, two Antonov An-124-100 were procured. With the second largest type of cargo aircraft in the world, a market niche for heavy transport was opened up and a separate air cargo division was founded. In April 1998 a newly developed rail system for heavy loads was installed in the An-124. In 1999 and 2001, respectively, Polet received the flight and landing rights for the USA and Canada .

In August 2003, Polet Airlines started passenger transport as a regional airline. In the meantime, international destinations are also served.

Polet Airlines completely ceased operations in December 2014, after an arbitration tribunal ordered the Ilyushin Finance Cooperation to review the company for outstanding lease payments (163 million rubles) . The Russian aviation regulatory authority Rosaviazija then suspended the airline's AOC and finally revoked it in early April 2015.

Destinations

The main business of Polet Airlines was global cargo flights with a focus on heavy transport. It had the approval for the transport of satellites and rockets from the Russian space agency Roskosmos .

It also had some passenger connections: In addition to Krasnodar , Novosibirsk , Norilsk , Yekaterinburg , Ulyanovsk , Sochi , Saint Petersburg, Belgorod and Moscow-Domodedovo inland, Yerevan , Baku , Minsk , Prague , Munich , Qostanai and, seasonally, Larnaka , Antalya and Flight to Istanbul .