- VIM Airlines
Infobox Airline
airline = Aircompany "VIM-AVIA", LLC
ООО «Авиакомпания «ВИМ-АВИА»
logo_size = 200px
fleet_size = 15
destinations = 22
IATA = NN
ICAO = MOV
callsign = MOV AIR
parent =
company_slogan =
founded =2000
headquarters =Moscow ,Russia
key_people = Saad Khedher (General Director), Viktor Ivanovich Merkulov (President)
hubs = Moscow-Domodedovo
Moscow-Vnukovo
secondary_hubs =
focus_cities =
frequent_flyer =
lounge =
alliance =
website = http://www.vim-avia.com/VIM Airlines is an
airline based inMoscow ,Russia . It operates international scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo services from Moscow, as well as wet leasing aircraft. Its main bases areVnukovo Airport andDomodedovo Airport , Moscow.History
The airline was established and started operations in
2000 .VIM Airlines acquired
Chitaavia andAerobratsk at the end of2004 , andRussian Sky Airlines in2005 . It also shook up the market in 2004 when its new shareholders bought 12 Boeing 757-200 aircraft and invaded the charter arena. It was the first charter operator to use Western-built equipment in the local market [ [http://www.atwonline.com/magazine/article.html?articleID=1774 Air Transport World] November 2006] .On
9 November 2006 Aviaprad started services betweenYekaterinburg andMoscow using a newly acquired Boeing 757-200 jet leased from VIM Airlines [Airliner World January 2007]Destinations
*
Bulgaria
**Varna *
Germany
**Bremen *
Greece
**Heraklion International Airport
**Thessaloniki International Airport *
Italy
**Palermo International Airport *Korea
**Yangyang International Airport *
Russia
**Vityazevo Airport
**Barnaul Airport
**Beloyarsky Airport
**Bratsk Airport
**Chita Kadala Airport
**Irkutsk Airport
**Kemerovo Airport
**Khabarovsk
**Khanty-Mansiysk Airport
**Magnitogorsk Airport
**Moscow (Domodedovo International Airport ) hub
**Nadym Airport
**Novy Urengoy Airport
**Chkalovsk Airport
**Sochi Airport
**Ufa Airport
**Vladivostok Airport
**Yekaterinburg Aramil Airport *
Spain
**Barcelona International Airport Fleet
The VIM Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of
5 August 2008 ) [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=MOV&al_op=1] :*13
Boeing 757-200 (one aircraft is operated forTajik Air and one aircraft is operated for theUnited Nations )
*2Tupolev Tu-154M External links
*ru icon [http://www.vim-avia.com/ VIM Airlines]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=MOV&al_op=1 VIM Airlines Fleet]References
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