Region Avia Airlines

Region-Avia is an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates regional passenger services.

History

Region Avia was registered in Moscow in 2005. It is 52% owned by Russian citizens, but the details of its ownership structure are not known.cite web | title=New Regional Airline Emerging | date=2007-05-23 | work= Kommersant| url=http://www.kommersant.com/p767812/r_500/EBRD_airlines/ | accessdate=2007-07-24] It plans to acquire a fleet of up to 50 foreign-made aircraft (either ATR 42, ATR 72 or Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft) by 2012 and operate them on regional routes of 1500 km or less from Bykovo Airport, Moscow. [cite news | title= Region-Avia | work=Airliner World | page= 13| date= August 2007] [cite web | title= New Russian Regional Emerging | date= 2007-05-25| work= Alternative Airlines| url=http://www.airbotswana.co.uk/aa/news.cfm?ccs=214&cs=1207 | accessdate=2007-07-24] With investment of about $65 million planned, the airline hopes to carry 3 million passengers a year by 2010-2012. The main investor ($50 million) is the Norum company.

Destinations

Region-Avia makes regular flights between Yekaterinburg and Magnitogorsk, Ufa and Nyagan in partnership with Aviaprad.

Fleet

The Region-Avia fleet includes the following aircraft (at May 2007) :
*8 Antonov An-28

External links

* [http://www.regionavia.ru/ Region-Avia]

References