VIM Airlines

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VIM Airlines
VIM Airlines logo
VIM Airlines Boeing 757-200
IATA code : NN
ICAO code : MOV
Call sign : MOV AIR
Founding: 2002
Operation stopped: 2017
Seat: Moscow , RussiaRussiaRussia 
Home airport : Moscow Domodedovo
IATA prefix code : 823
Management: Alexander Kochnev
Fleet size: 30th
Aims: National and international
Website: www.vim-avia.com
VIM Airlines ceased operations in 2017. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

VIM Airlines ( Russian ВИМ Авиа ) was a Russian charter airline based in Moscow and based at Moscow-Domodedovo Airport .

history

VIM Airlines was founded in 2002. It took over twelve Boeing 757-200s from Condor in 2004 , making it the first Russian charter airline to operate with western aircraft.

On September 25, 2017, VIM Airlines ceased charter flights due to financial problems. The reason was also a regulation of the supervisory authority, according to which a reserve machine of every type of aircraft must be available at all times. Many flights had already suffered massive delays months earlier. When the charter flights were discontinued, regional governors worked to ensure that the subsidized flights to be carried out in the interior of Russia could be maintained for a few weeks at least for a short time. The commitments were upheld until mid-October 2017.

Destinations

VIM Airlines primarily offered national and international charter flights from its home airport in Moscow-Vnukowo . In addition to charter flights with a focus on summer destinations in the Mediterranean, the line flew to remote cities in the Far East of Russia on subsidized flights.

fleet

An Ilyushin Il-62M operated by VIM Airlines in 2004

As of July 2017, the VIM Airlines fleet consisted of 27 aircraft with an average age of 19 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
Airbus A319-100 04th 150
Airbus A330-200 02 252
Boeing 737-500 01 1 inactive 126
Boeing 757-200 06th 3 inactive 220
Boeing 767-300ER 02 1 inactive 271
Boeing 777-200ER 10 + 4 ready for delivery 282
Boeing 777-300ER 02 428
total 27

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ centreforaviation.com: VIM Airlines (English), accessed on August 24, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c NZZ, September 27, 2017, page 24
  3. ↑ Aerotelegraph : [1] (German), accessed on September 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Air operator certificate of VIM Avia suspended and may be revoked ruaviation, October 30, 2017
  5. ↑ VIM-Avia is allowed to perform several flights after October 15 , aerotime, October 15, 2017
  6. ↑ Ch-aviation : VIM Airlines (English), accessed on July 7, 2017
  7. ↑ www.vim-avia.com - Our Fleet ( Memento from September 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 1, 2017