Yakutia Airlines

Infobox Airline
airline = JSC "Aircompany "Yakutia"
ОАО «Авиакомпания «Якутия»

logo_size = 200
fleet_size = 42
destinations = 40
IATA = R3
ICAO = SUL
callsign = AIR YAKUTIA
parent =
company_slogan =
founded = 2002
headquarters = Yakutsk, Russia
key_people = Ivan Alekseevich Prostit (General Director)ru icon Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", "Airline Reference", Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 27 April 2007, p. 514]
hubs = Yakutsk Airport, Vnukovo International Airport
secondary_hubs =
focus_cities =
frequent_flyer =
lounge =
alliance =
website = http://www.yakutia.aero/

Yakutia Airlines is an airline based in Yakutsk, Russia. It operates domestic passenger services in Russia and within the CIS, as well as charters to destinations in Europe, including London Stansted, from its hubs at Yakutsk Airport and Moscow's Vnukovo Airport.

History

The airline was founded as Sakhaavia, the former Aeroflot Yakutsk Division and also previously known as Yakutaviatrans. It also operated cargo charters to Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East until it filed for bankruptcy in early 1999. It emerged in 2000 and is controlled by the regional government, Neryungri State Air Enterprise. It merged with Yakutavia in 2002 and changed its name to Yakutia Airlines.

Yakutia Airlines is planned to be the launch customer for the Antonov An-140 aircraft. It is to take three of the twin-turboprop 52-seat aircraft, which is due to make its maiden flight in August 2005, to replace its Antonov An-24s. Deliveries are due in 2006 and 2007 [Flight International, July 2005]

Destinations

As of September 2008, Yakutia Airlines operates flights to the following:ru icon [http://www.polets.ru/cgi-bin/sh.pl?Mode=AK&AKIndex=2411&AKCode=2411 Polet-Sirena] ] ru icon [http://www.yakutia.ru/sirena/Scripts/rasp_ap.dll/SirenaHome Sirena-Yakutia] ]

;China
*charter - Beijing, Dalian, Qinhuandao, Tianjin
*scheduled - Harbin ;Korea, South
*scheduled - Seoul [restarts 26 October, 2008] ;Mongolia
*charter - Ulaanbaatar;Russia
*charter - Moscow-Vnukovo, Krasnodar, Nadym, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Saint Petersburg, Tiksi, Ufa, Yakutsk
* scheduled - Anapa, Batagai, Belaya Gora, Blagoveshchensk, Bratsk, Chokurdakh, Deputatskiy, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Khandyga, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Lensk, Magadan, Mirniy, Moma, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Nyubra, Olekminsk, Olenek, Omsk, Saint Petersburg, Saskylakh, Sochi, Srednekolymsk, Suntar, Tiksi, Ust-Maya, Ust-Nera, Verkhnevilyuisk, Vilyuisk, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Zhigansk, Zyryanka

Fleet

The Yakutia Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at May 2008):

*3 Antonov An-12
*17 Antonov An-24
*5 Antonov An-26
*2 Boeing 757-200
*4 Let L-410 UVP
*7 Tupolev Tu-154M (one operated for Red Wings Airlines)
*4 Yakovlev Yak-40

;On order:
* 8 Antonov An-140

External links

*ru icon [http://www.yakutia.aero Yakutia official website (under construction)]
*ru icon [http://web.archive.org/web/20040608165843/www.yakutia-air.ru/default.aspx Yakutia official website (archived from 2005)]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=SYL&al_op=1 Yakutia Airlines Fleet]

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