Moscow Airlines

Not to be confused with Moskovia Airlines.

Moscow Airlines

IATA 7B ICAO MOA Callsign MOSCOW AIRLINES
Founded	1993 as Atlant-Soyuz Airlines 2010 renamed Moscow Airlines
Ceased operations	2011
Hubs	Vnukovo International Airport
Fleet size	15 (upon closure)
Destinations	12 (upon closure)
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Key people	Valery Evgenevich Menitsky (Chairman of the Board) Vladimir Vasilievich Davidov (General Director) [citation needed]
Website	www.flymoscow.ru defunct

OJSC Moscow Airlines (Russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания Москва») was an airline based in Moscow, Russia, operating domestic and international passenger flights out of Vnukovo International Airport. It operated from 1993 to 2010.

History

Logo of Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (used until 2010).

The airline was founded as OSJC Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (Russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания «Атлант-Союз») and started operations in June 1993, operating passenger as well as cargo flights using Soviet-build aircraft. The first Boeing airplane was added to the fleet in 2006.^[1] In 2007, the company was owned by private investors (75%) and the City of Moscow (25%) and had 726 employees.^[2] Initial plans for a joint-venture with US-based cargo airline Evergreen International Airlines where brought forth in 2007, but never materialized.^[3]

On 17 September 2010, the airline was rebranded as Moscow Airlines. Following this step, all Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft were removed from the fleet, marking the end of dedicated cargo flights.^[4] On 17 January 2011, Moscow Airlines discontinued all flight-activities, and the company went into liquidation.^[5]

Destinations

An Atlant-Soyuz Airlines Boeing 737-300 in the latest livery takes off from Vnukovo International Airport (2007).

An Atlant-Soyuz Airlines Ilyushin Il-86 in old livery (2009).

An Atlant-Soyuz Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft landing at Balad Airbase, Iraq (2005).

In November 2010, Moscow Airlines served the following scheduled destinations:^{[6][dead link]}

• Azerbaijan
  • Ganja - Ganja Airport
  • Nakhchivan - Nakhchivan Airport

• Czech Republic
  • Brno - Brno-Tuřany Airport

• Montenegro
  • Tivat - Tivat Airport

• Russia
  • Gelendzhik - Gelendzhik Airport
  • Moscow - Vnukovo International Airport hub
  • Sochi - Sochi International Airport

• Tajikistan
  • Dushanbe - Dushanbe Airport

• Uzbekistan
  • Bukhara - Bukhara International Airport
  • Fergana - Fergana Airport
  • Samarkand - Samarkand Airport
  • Tashkent - Tashkent International Airport

Fleet

As of November 2010, Moscow Airlines operated a fleet of 8 Boeing 737 aircraft with an average age of 12.8 years for scheduled passenger flights.^[7] Additionally, it owned several older Tupolev and Ilyushin aircraft, which mostly served on charter routes.

Moscow Airlines fleet

Aircraft	Total	Orders	Passengers
			C	Y+	Y	Total
Boeing 737-300	2[7]	—	8	0	120	128
Boeing 737-800	6[7]	2	? 0	0 0	? 189	162 189
Ilyushin Il-86	5[4]	—	0	0	350	350
Tupolev Tu-154M	2[4]	—	8 0	0 0	150 176	158 176

References

1. ^ Atlant-Soyuz Airlines fleet list at planespotters.net
2. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 79. 2007-04-03. 
3. ^ "Joint venture". Airliner World: p. 13. August 2007. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Moscow Airlines entry at the Aero Transport Database
5. ^ Last Flight at 17.1.2011 (http://www.travel.ru
6. ^ Moscow Airlines timetable. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
7. ^ ^{a b c} Moscow Airlines Boeing fleet list at planespotters.net