Domodedovo Airlines

Domodedovo Airlines
Домодедовские авиалинии

IATA E3 ICAO DMO Callsign DOMODEDOVO
Founded	1964( founded as Aeroflot ) 1992 as Domodedovo Airlines
Ceased operations	2008
Hubs	Domodedovo International Airport
Frequent-flyer program	AiRUnion PREMIUM, AkademStar Premium (for students
Alliance	AiRUnion
Fleet size	13
Destinations	19
Headquarters	Domodedovo International Airport Domodedovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Key people	Sergey Borisovich Yanovoi (General Director)
Website	akdal.ru/eng/live/default.asp

JSC "Domodedovo Airlines" (Russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания «Домодедовские авиалинии» OAO Aviakompaniya Domodedovskiye Avialinii) was an airline with its head office on the grounds of Domodedovo International Airport in Domodedovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia.^[1] It operated scheduled flights within Russia and the CIS, with a focus on flights to the Russian Far East. The airline also operated scheduled and ad-hoc charter flights to P. R. China, Europe, Thailand, Maldives, Malaysia and Singapore. It was based at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.^{[citation needed]}

History

Domodedovo United Air Detachment (Russian: Домодедовского объединенного авиаотряда Domodedovskogo Obyedinennogo Aviaotryada), a division of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines, was established in March 1964 , when Flight Units 206, 211 and 202 were transferred to Domodedovo Airport from Vnukovo Airport. The division was set up to operate long-haul services within the USSR, particularly to the Russian Far East and the Central Asian republics. All flights of the airline were operated as part of Aeroflot services.

On 25 March 1964 the airline operated its first revenue service with a Tupolev Tu-114 on a flight from Domodedovo Airport to Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. In 1978 , with an Ilyushin Il-62, the airline started non-stop operations on the longest domestic service in the world, Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a distance of some 6,800 km. In 1979 the airline was renamed to Domodedovo Civil Aviation Production Association (Domodedovo CAPA) (Russian: Домодедовское производственное объединение гражданской авиации (ДПО ГА) Domodedovskoe Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye Grazhdanskoy (DPO GA)).

Ilyushin Il-18D turboprop airliner of Domodedovo CAPA at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in 1994

Domodedovo CAPA was officially separated from Aeroflot on 20 January 1993, when it was awarded with operator licence №4 by the State Civil Aviation Service. In January 1998 , as a result of the restructuring of Domodedovo CAPA in which the airport and airline were separated, Domodedovo Airlines was established as Domodedovo Airlines, JSC. Its fleet then included Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop and Ilyushin Il-62 turbojet airliners.

It was partially privatised in 2001 , with the Ministry of Property retaining a controlling stake^[2]. In October 2004 KrasAir and Domodedovo set up a joint management company, Air Bridge. While retaining separate legal identities the airlines planned to integrate their networks and services, which were largely complementary. The alliance was renamed AiRUnion in 2005 . Domodedovo Airlines was owned by State holding (50.4 per cent) and ATON (49.6 per cent) and had 1,489 employees at March 2007.^[2]

It had suspended operations at the end of September 2008 due to the AiRUnion collapse.

Destinations

As of October 2007, Domodedovo Airlines operated scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:[3]
Country	City	Airport	Notes
Russia
Russia	Anadyr	Ugolny Airport
	Blagoveshchensk	Ignatyevo Airport
	Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk Novy Airport
	Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Airport
	Moscow	Domodedovo International Airport	Hub
	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport
	Vladivostok	Vladivostok International Airport
	Ulan-Ude(operated by Kras Air and S7 airlines,a Oneworld	Ulan-Ude Airport
	Yakutsk	Yakutsk Airport
	Yekaterinburg	Koltsovo International Airport
	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport
Africa
Egypt	Hurghada	Hurghada International Airport
Asia
Azerbaijan	Baku	Heydar Aliyev International Airport
	Ganja	Ganja Airport
China	Beijing	Beijing Capital International Airport
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Dushanbe Airport
Uzbekistan	Bukhara	Bukhara Airport
	Fergana	Fergana Airport
	Samarkand	Samarkand Airport
	Tashkent	Tashkent International Airport

Fleet

The Domodedovo Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of March 2007)^[2]:

Domodedovo Airlines Fleet

Aircraft	Photo	Total	Passengers	Notes
Ilyushin Il-96-300		5	252
Tupolev Tu-154M		3	166
Ilyushin Il-62M		5	174

In addition to the fleet listed above, Domodedovo Airlines also utilises many aircraft from the KrasAir fleet for its scheduled services, which include Boeing 737, Tupolev Tu-204, Tupolev Tu-214 and Boeing 767-200.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ "Contact Us." Domodedovo Airlines. Retrieved on 6 November 2010. "145015, Moscow region, Domodedovo district, airport Domodedovo, Joint Stock Company DOMODEDOVO AIRLINES." Address in Russian: "АДРЕС: 142015, Московская область, Домодедовский район, аэропорт "Домодедово", ОАО АК "ДАЛ""
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 74. 2007-03-27. 
3. ^ (Russian) "Информация по авиакомпании". Polyot-Sirena. http://www.polets.ru/cgi-bin/sh.pl?Mode=AK&AKIndex=371&AKCode=371. Retrieved 2007-10-18. 

External links

	Russia portal
	Aviation portal
	Companies portal

• Domodedovo Airlines official website at the Wayback Machine (2004-2008)
• Domodedovo Airlines official website at the Wayback Machine (Russian)