S7 Airlines

S7 Airlines
IATA code :	S7
ICAO code :	SBI
Call sign :	SIBERIAN AIRLINES
Founding:	1992 (as Siberia Airlines)
Seat:	Moscow , Russia
Turnstile :	Moscow Domodedovo Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Irkutsk
Home airport :	Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo
IATA prefix code :	421
Passenger volume:	9.95 million  (2017)
Freight volume:	34,810 t  (2017)
Alliance :	oneworld
Frequent Flyer Program :	S7 priority
Fleet size:	104 (+ 8 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.s7.ru

S7 Airlines (until March 2006 Siberia Airlines ) is a Russian airline with headquarters in Moscow and bases at Moscow-Domodedovo , Novosibirsk-Tolmachovo and Irkutsk airports . It is a member of the oneworld aviation alliance .

history

An S7 Airlines Boeing 767-300ER, as used by the company until the end of 2017

S7 Airlines emerged in May 1992 under the name Siberia Airlines ( Russian : авиакомпания Сиби́рь ) from a subsidiary of Aeroflot based in the Russian city of Novosibirsk .

In 1997 an airplane had to be pawned and the then lenders, Natalja and Wladislav Filjow, secured control of the then loss-making company with a loan of $ 20 million.

In 2001 Vnukovo Airlines was taken over.

In 2003, the airline overtook the previous market leader Aeroflot in terms of domestic Russian passenger numbers. In 2005, the airline carried out over 32,000 flights, transporting 4.2 million passengers and 25,788 tons of cargo.

Since May 5, 2006, the company has been operating under the name S7 Airlines , derived from its IATA airline code . The earlier lettering of the tail unit, "Sibir" in Cyrillic script , and the former blue and white painting of the aircraft have since been successively replaced by the new company color green and the lettering "S7" . Older aircraft in the fleet - especially those that were subsequently decommissioned in the medium term (e.g. the Ilyushin Il-86 ) - only received a sticker with the new logo.

At the beginning of 2008 S7 Airlines founded the subsidiary Globus Airlines , which mainly operated charter flights with the Boeing 737-800 . In December 2008, however, S7 sold Globus to the East Line Group .

In the past, S7 Airlines operated a large number of Soviet- made aircraft , but these - including the widespread Tupolev Tu-154  - were completely retired by the end of 2008.

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On May 26, 2009 it was announced that, after an integration phase , the company would join the oneworld aviation alliance in 2010, of which British Airways and American Airlines are also members. They finally joined on November 15, 2010.

In September 2016, the S7 Group, owner of S7 Airlines, took over the space company Sea Launch for around 150 million dollars . The Swiss company offers rocket launches from a specially adapted drilling platform . Starts were planned for the end of 2018 and from 2019 the supervisory authority granted Roskosmos a license for the production of launch vehicles, whereupon the holding company changed its name. The development of business jets was also announced in 2018.

The co-owner of S7 Airlines and chairwoman of the CJSC S7 Group , Natalija Filjowa, was killed on March 31, 2019 in the crash of the Epic LT RA-2151G near the Hessian city of Erzhausen . The aircraft belonged to a subsidiary of the airline.

Destinations

Own flights

S7 operates around 120 flights a day, more than a third of them from Moscow. The company serves an extensive network of destinations within Russia and the other CIS countries as well as flight destinations in, among others, China ( Beijing ), Thailand ( Bangkok ), Spain ( Madrid and Tenerife ), Ireland ( Dublin ) and the United Arab Emirates ( Dubai ) . In Germany there have been flights to Munich , Frankfurt am Main , Düsseldorf and Hanover from Moscow since 2009 , and to Berlin since June 2011 . In addition, various German destinations are seasonally connected directly to the St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk airports . In Austria, Salzburg and Innsbruck are destinations in the winter season . Vienna has been served year-round since March 2017 .

Code sharing

In addition to its own connections, S7 maintains an extensive range of codeshare connections. In addition to the Oneworld airlines, these are Air Italy , Aeroflot , Aegan Airlines , El Al , Emirates , Etihad , Singapore Airlines , TAP Air Portugal , as well as some regionally active Russian airlines.

fleet

Current fleet

Airbus A319-100 of S7 Airlines in an older livery

Cabin of an Airbus A320

As of April 2020, the S7 Airlines fleet consists of 103 aircraft with an average age of 9.5 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )	Average age (April 2020)
Airbus A319-100	12		VP-BQW in Oneworld special livery	144 (- / 144)	16.5 years
Airbus A320-200	18th		4 equipped with sharklets ; VQ-BPN in Siberian Airlines special livery	158 (8/150)	9.2 years
Airbus A320neo	22nd	2		164 (8/156)	1.2 years
Airbus A321-200	7th		3 with Sharklets equipped	197 (8/189) 198 (8/190)	11.1 years
Airbus A321neo	4th			203 (8/195)	1.4 years
Boeing 737-800	21st		equipped with winglets ; eight operated by Globus Airlines ; VQ-BKW in Oneworld special livery	176 (8/168)	10.8 years
Boeing 737 MAX 8	2	5	operated by Globus Airlines	176 (8/168)	1.5 years
Embraer 170 LR	17th			78 (- / 78)	16.1 years
total	104	8th			9.5 years

Former aircraft types

A Tupolev Tu-154 , as it was previously used by S7 Airlines, still in the livery of Siberia Airlines

In addition, S7 Airlines / Siberia Airlines used the following aircraft types in the past:

• Airbus A310
• Antonov An-24
• Antonov An-26
• Antonov An-32
• Ilyushin Il-86
• Yakovlev Yak-42
• Tupolev Tu-134
• Tupolev Tu-154
• Tupolev Tu-204
• Boeing 767

Incidents

S7 Airlines has recorded three aircraft losses with fatalities in its history, two of which were not due to failure by the airline:

• On October 4, 2001 a Tupolev Tu-154M of Sibir Airlines (RA-85693) , en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk , was accidentally shot down with a surface-to-air missile of the Ukrainian Navy . On board the machine were 65 passengers and 12 crew members. At first a terrorist attack was suspected, later it turned out that a misdirected S-200 missile had hit the machine during a military maneuver (see Sibir flight 1812 ) .

• On August 24, 2004, Chechen terrorists carried out two explosive attacks on Russian scheduled flights almost simultaneously . One of the aircraft was a Tu-154 from Siberia Airlines, which was en route from Moscow to Sochi with 46 people on board . The aircraft was destroyed in the air, and everyone on board lost their lives.

• On July 9, 2006, an Airbus A310-300 of S7 Airlines (F-OGYP) launched in Moscow at Irkutsk Airport came off the runway at high speed when it landed, hit a concrete wall and into a building, where it caught fire rose. 125 of the total of 203 inmates were killed. The triggers were a previously defective thrust reverser and a completely uncoordinated approach by the pilots, which resulted in a renewed forward thrust of the other engine, the retraction of the braking spoilers on the wings and the deactivation of the automatic braking system.

Trivia

For the music video of the American rock band OK Go for their song Upside down, Inside Out , an S7 Airlines plane was used, which carried out 21 parabolic flights, so that the band was weightless for two hours and 15 minutes for the recordings .

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : S7 Airlines  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• S7 Airlines website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 236 kB) Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Russian). 
2. ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Freight Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 238 kB) Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Russian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} aero.de: S7 Airlines closes integration into Oneworld from November 15, 2010.
4. ↑ Millionaire with a soft spot for aviation , FAZ, April 1, 2019
5. ↑ aero.de: Russian S7 becomes a member of oneworld in 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 26, 2009. 
6. ↑ aero.de: Russian S7 Airlines joins oneworld , September 24, 2010.
7. ↑ Russian airline group buys space company , accessed on November 29, 2016.
8. ↑ The largest private aviation holding will change its name , Vedomosti, December 21, 2018
9. ↑ S7 Group Filjow to build ultra-light jet business jets , Vedomosti, August 26, 2018
10. ↑ Stefan Eiselin: co-owner of S7 Airlines dies in a crash in Frankfurt Egelsbach. In: aerotelegraph.com. March 31, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Natalija Filjowa: Russian millionaire killed in plane crash in Erzhausen. In: welt.de. March 31, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Russian S7 Airlines returns to Vienna. In: austrianwings.info. November 29, 2016. Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 
13. ↑ S7 Airlines | Авиакомпании-партнёры. Retrieved October 12, 2019 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b c} S7 - Siberia Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 8, 2020, accessed April 15, 2020 . 
15. ↑ S7 Airlines - Our Fleet , accessed June 24, 2017.
16. ↑ VQ-BKW S7 - Siberia Airlines Boeing 737-8ZS (WL). In: planespotters.net. July 31, 2019, accessed August 15, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Sibir Airlines (English), accessed June 24, 2017.
18. ^ Accident report TU-154M RA-85693 Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 15, 2018.
19. ↑ Passenger jets crashed, authorities assume attack. spiegel.de, August 25, 2004, accessed on September 19, 2009 . 
20. ↑ A dubious coincidence. spiegel.de, August 25, 2004, accessed on September 19, 2009 . 
21. ↑ Terror or misfortune? The guesswork of double crashes. faz.net, August 26, 2004, accessed September 18, 2009 . 
22. ↑ Accident report A310 F-OGYP Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 15, 2018.
23. ↑ An ingenious music video is created on Parabelflug , accessed on February 12, 2016.