Aviaprad

Infobox Airline
airline = Aviaprad
Авиапрад

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fleet_size = 10
destinations = 27
IATA = WR
ICAO = VID
callsign = AVIAPRAD
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founded = 1996
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ceased = February 5, 2008 [ [http://www.uralairlines.ru/info/presscentre/news/590 Press release of Ural Airlines and Aviaprad] ru icon]
headquarters = Chelyabinsk, Russia
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hubs = Koltsovo International Airport
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CJSC, Aviaprad ( _ru. ЗАО «Авиапрад») was an airline based in Chelyabinsk, Russia. It operated domestic and international cargo charters from Yekaterinburg to destinations within the CIS, Western Europe, China and the United Arab Emirates. Its main base was Koltsovo International Airport, Yekaterinburgcite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 82 | date= 2007-04-03] .

History

The airline was established in 1996 . It is wholly owned by Ural Civil Aviation Works. On November 9th, 2006 services started between Yekaterinburg and Moscow using a newly acquired Boeing 757-200 wet leased from VIM Airlines. More aircraft later joined the fleet and more destination were added.

But in February 2008 all bookings were suddenly suspended with the flights transfered to other airlines. Despite still being an officially registered company, all operations resumed. The employees were laid off and the aircraft returned to the lessors or offered for sale.

Destinations

By the end of 2007 the company served the following destinations:
*Russia
** Anapa
** Beloyarskiy
** Chelyabinsk (hub)
** Irkutsk
** Khanty-Mansiysk
** Krasnodar
** Kurgan Tyube
** Magnitogorsk
** Mirny
** Mineralnye Vody
** Moscow-Domodedovo
** Norilsk
** Novosibirsk
** Novy Urengoy
** Nyagan
** Nizhnevartovsk
** Saint Petersburg
** Samara
** Sochi
** Sovetskiy
** Surgut
** Ufa
** Ust-Kamenogorsk
** Yekaterinburg (hub)

*Germany
** Frankfurt
** Hannover

*United Arab Emirates
** Dubai

Fleet

The Aviaprad fleet consisted of the following aircraft (in June 2007): Fact|date=July 2007

*2 Boeing 737-500
*4 Yakovlev Yak-42
*2 Antonov An-28 (code shared with "Region-Avia")
*2 Tupolev Tu-154M (on leased)

In mid-2007 Aviaprad introduced two former Kuban Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft (RA-85795 and RA-85123) to its fleet to operate charter services to Europe. [cite news | title= Aviaprad fleet additions | work=Airliner World | page= 12| date= August 2007]

Previously operated

*1 Ilyushin Il-76TD Fact|date=April 2007

External links

* [http://www.aviaprad.info Aviaprad Official Site]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=VID&al_op=1 Aviaprad Fleet]

References