Ukraine International Airlines
| Ukraine International Airlines Міжнародні Авіалінії України |
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| IATA code : | PS |
| ICAO code : | AUI |
| Call sign : | UKRAINE INTERNATIONAL |
| Founding: | 1992 |
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Kiev , Ukraine
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| Home airport : | Kiev-Boryspil |
| Company form: | Акціонерне товариство ( joint stock company ) |
| IATA prefix code : | 566 |
| Management: | Yevheny Dychne |
| Number of employees: | 3500 |
| Passenger volume: | 8 million |
| Frequent Flyer Program : | Panorama Club & Panorama Corporate Club |
| Fleet size: | 40 |
| Aims: | 10 national and 50 international |
| Website: | http://www.flyuia.com/ |
Ukraine International Airlines ( Ukrainian Міжнародні Авіалінії України Mizhnarodni Avialiniyi Ukrajiny , [ˌmiʒnarodni ˌɑviɑliniji ˌukrajinɪ] ) is a Ukrainian airline based in Kiev and based on the Boryspil Airport .
history
Foundation and first years
The airline was founded on October 1, 1992 and started its flight operations on November 25, 1992. It was founded as the successor to the international services of Air Ukraine to offer flights between Kiev and Western Europe .
The company was the first company in the CIS , which was also founded with Western capital and purchased new Boeing 737 aircraft ex works. It was one of the first Eastern European airlines after the collapse of the Soviet Union to receive IATA-IOSA safety certification for the highest quality standards.
The founding shareholders were the Ukrainian Civil Aviation Authority and Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), an Irish aircraft leasing company.
In 1996 the Austrian Airlines Group and Swissair invested new shares valued at US $ 9 million. In 2000 the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invested US $ 5.4 million and became a new shareholder.
Development since 2000
After in 2002 the merger with Air Ukraine, the successor company of the Soviet Kiev -Division of Aeroflot , foundered on the opposition of Western shareholders of UIA went, shortly after the Air Ukraine into insolvency . There is still a remaining company with a few aircraft. The inner-Ukrainian lines have since been flown by local airlines and the Ukrainian low-cost airline Aerosvit Airlines .
A cooperation between Ukraine International Airlines and Air Berlin was announced on January 19, 2010.
Ukraine International Airlines' main shareholder before full privatization was the Ukrainian state trust fund FDMU with 61.58%. The Austrian-based UIA Holding GmbH, Capital Investment Project GmbH and a third private investor held smaller blocks of shares.
On February 28, 2011, the Ukrainian state trust fund FDMU handed over its 61.58% stake in Ukraine International Airlines to private hands for UAH 287.2 million (around EUR 26 million). 36.09% of the shares went to those private investors who previously held 22.51% and now hold the majority of the shares with 58.6%. A further 15.91% was acquired by the Austria-based UIA Holding GmbH, which now owns 25.85% of the UIA shares. The third private investor is Capital Investment Project GmbH, which acquired 9.58% of the shares and now holds 15.55%.
Dniproavia AG, which belongs to the Ukrainian entrepreneur Ihor Kolomojskyj , missed out on the privatization . Kolomoyskyi considered the price of 250 million UAH demanded by the Ukrainian state trust fund FDMU to be too low and, according to media reports, had agreed to pay a total of 516.8 million UAH for the majority of the shares if the auction was held transparently.
In January 2013 it was announced that UIA intends to take over numerous routes of the financially troubled Aerosvit Airlines , including some long-haul routes such as New York and Bangkok.
Destinations
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) serve several destinations within Ukraine (9 domestic routes from Kiev -Boryspil) as well as numerous cities and some seasonal holiday destinations in Europe , Eastern Europe , the Caucasus, the Baltic States and the Middle East.
On short and medium-haul routes, important destinations are served, such as:
Almaty , Riga , Baku , Prague , Vilnius , Copenhagen , Helsinki , Oslo , Chișinău , Tbilisi , Yerevan , Istanbul , Ankara , Lisbon , Tel Aviv , Rome , Bologna , Bergamo , Athens , Madrid , Barcelona , London , Amsterdam , Brussels , Paris , Larnaka
Long-term destinations include New York , Dubai , Toronto , Delhi .
In the German-speaking area , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Munich , Berlin-Tegel , Vienna , Geneva and Zurich can currently be found in the flight plan.
After the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, a flight embargo and export restrictions were issued for the two countries until further notice. The embargo applies to the entire airspace of Ukraine and Russia and only applies to airlines in both countries and cargo flights that are not allowed to fly over the opposing airspace. The Simferopol airport in the Crimea can not be more since the Crimean annexation fly into Ukrainian airlines.
Code sharing
There are code-sharing agreements with Air Astana, Alitalia , Azerbaijan Airlines , Air Baltic, Dniproavia , Delta Air Lines , El Al , Iberia , KLM , Wind Rose , TAP Portugal and Turkish Airlines .
Seat
The company's head office is located in Darnytsya in the southeast of Kiev on Kharkiv Avenue ( Харківське Шосе ) No. 201–203, directly on the M 03 highway to Kiev-Boryspil Airport .
fleet
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As of March 2020, Ukraine International Airlines' fleet consists of 40 aircraft with an average age of 12.7 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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Boeing 737-800 |
22nd | with winglets fitted | 186 | |
| Boeing 737-900ER | 4th | 189
215 |
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| Boeing 767-300ER | 4th | with winglets fitted | 261
286 |
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| Boeing 777-200ER | 3 | New seating in all 3 service classes (Economy, Premium Economy, Business Class) 180 ° seats and a new entertainment system available from 2018 | 361 | |
| Embraer 190 | 5 | 104 | ||
| Embraer 195 | 2 | 116 | ||
| total | 40 |
Incidents
On January 8, 2020, shortly after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport , a Boeing 737-800 was accidentally shot down by two anti- aircraft missiles of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ( see also Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 ). All 176 passengers and crew members on board were killed.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ UIA: Travel to Kiev and Simferopol from a total of nine German cities is now possible. (No longer available online.) Business-travel.de, January 19, 2010, archived from the original on January 18, 2012 ; Retrieved January 19, 2010 .
- ↑ Fund of State Property sold its majority of shares in UIA ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2011 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. . NRCU National Radio Corporation of Ukraine (February 28, 2011), Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- ↑ austrianaviation.net - AeroSvit bankruptcy: UIA wants to take over long haul January 28, 2013.
- ↑ News - Ukraine International Airlines (UIA). (No longer available online.) In: www.flyuia.com. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017 ; Retrieved June 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Office of Economics and Export Control BAFA: BAFA Export Control: Russia and Ukraine. (No longer available online.) In: www.bafa.de. Archived from the original on June 26, 2016 ; Retrieved June 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Russia closes airspace for Ukrainian airlines. Retrieved June 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Ukraine International Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Gold Star Aviation: Meet Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 777-200ER. December 18, 2017, accessed January 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Iran's President apologizes for shooting down. Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 11, 2020.
