Donavia
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JSC "Donavia" (Template:Langx) was an Aeroflot subsidiary<ref name="D9+SU">Template:Cite news</ref> airline based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.<ref>"Контакты авиакомпании Template:Webarchive." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272."</ref><ref>"Directory:World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 48. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia"</ref> Its main bases were Rostov-on-Don Airport and Mineralnye Vody Airport after the Kavminvodyavia bankruptcy.<ref name="ATM"/> It was known as Aeroflot-Don (Template:Langx) from 2000–2009. In the spring of 2016, its operations and aircraft were merged into sister company Rossiya.
HistoryEdit
The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airline Aeroflot. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was rebranded as Don Airlines ("Donavia") in 1993. It absorbed the Rostov assets of Aeroflot, and was one of many such "Babyflots" to emerge in the early 1990s. However, the airline was purchased by Aeroflot in 2000 and began to operate as Aeroflot-Don on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to the Middle East and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name and the airline adopted Airbus A319-151 and operated for ten years until operations were folded into Rossiya Airlines in 2016.
DestinationsEdit
Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:
AsiaEdit
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Western AsiaEdit
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EuropeEdit
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- Krasnodar – Krasnodar International Airport
- Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport Focus City
- Moscow Focus City
- Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport
- Rostov-on-Don – Rostov-on-Don Airport Hub
- Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport
- Sochi – Sochi International Airport Focus City
- Stavropol – Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport
- Volgograd – Volgograd International Airport
- Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport
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FleetEdit
In April 2016, the entire Donavia fleet was reassigned to Rossiya.Template:Cn
| aircraft | in service | orders | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbus A319 | 10 | 0 | |
| Boeing 737-400 | 3 | 0 | |
| Boeing 737-500 | 7 | 0 |
Retired fleet
| aircraft | introduced | retired | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ilyushin Il-86 | unknown | unknown | |
| Tupolev Tu-134 | unknown | 2008 | |
| Tupolev Tu-154 | unknown | 2009 |
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