AEROSVIT AIRLINES

'CJSC "Aircompany "Aerosvit"' (), operating as 'Aerosvit-Ukrainian Airlines' ()is an airline based in Kiev, Ukraine. It is the largest Ukrainian carrier, operating scheduled domestic services to 11 cities and international services directly or by codeshare to 20 destinations in Europe. It also has long-haul international services to China, Canada and the USA, as well as charter services. Its main base is Boryspil Airport, Kiev.^[1]

Contents

History

Incidents and accidents

Destinations

Code Share

Fleet Expansion

Fleet

External links

References

History

The airline was established on March 25 1994 and started operations in April 1994 with flights from Kiev to Tel Aviv, Odessa, Thessaloniki, Athens and Larnaca in co-operation with Air Ukraine. In October 1994 it started to dry-lease Boeing 737-200 aircraft as the network expanded to include flights to Moscow. It was the first European passenger airline to use Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
Aerosvit Airlines is owned by State Property Fund of Ukraine (22%), Aerotur-Agency for Air Communications and Tourism (40%) and Gilward Investments (Netherlands) (38%). It has 1,447 employees at March 2007).

Incidents and accidents

In December 1997 Aerosvit Flight 241 crashed near Thessaloniki, killing all 70 people aboard.^[2]

Destinations

Aerosvit Airlines operates the following services (July 2006):

=Ukraine

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★ Chernivtsi

★ Dnipropetrovsk

★ Donetsk

★ Ivano-Frankivsk

★ Kharkiv

★ Kiev

★ Luhansk

★ Lviv

★ Odessa

★ Simferopol

★ Zaporizhzhia

=Europe

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★ Athens

★ Antalya

★ Belgrade

★ Berlin-Tegel

★ Birmingham

★ Budapest

★ Chişinău

★ Dusseldorf

★ Frankfurt

★ Hamburg

★ Istanbul

★ Larnaca

★ Malta

★ Moscow-Sheremyetevo

★ Moscow-Domodedovo

★ Moscow-Vnukovo

★ Minsk

★ Munich

★ Naples

★ Prague

★ Riga

★ Rome

★ Sofia

★ Sharm el-Sheikh

★ Saint Petersburg

★ Stockholm

★ Stuttgart

★ Tallinn

★ Thessalonica

★ Venice

★ Varna

★ Vilnius

★ Warsaw

=Africa

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★ Cairo

=Asia

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★ Baku

★ Bangkok

★ Beijing

★ Delhi

★ Dubai

★ Shanghai

★ Tel Aviv

★ Tokyo (Charter)

=North America

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★ New York

★ Toronto

Code Share

Partner airlines.

★ EgyptAir

★ Indian Airlines

★ Pakistan International Airlines

★ Belavia

★ Olympic Airlines

★ LOT

★ Austrian

★ Malev

★ FlyLAL

★ Thai Airways

★ Czech Airlines

★ EL AL

Fleet Expansion

In the next five years, Aerosvit will double its medium-range fleet to 22 aircrafts. The company also plans to quadruple its long-rate to 12 aircrafts.

Fleet

The Aerosvit Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of July 2007)^[3]:

'Aerosvit Airlines'

Aircraft	Total	Passengers (Business/Economy)	Notes
Antonov An-148	10 on order	70 - 80
Antonov An-24	7	40-50
Boeing 737-200	1	118 (10/108)
Boeing 737-300	2	130 (12/118)
Boeing 737-400	8	153 (15/138)
Boeing 737-500	3	106 (10/96)
Boeing 737-800	11 to be leased 7 orders 7 options
Boeing 767-300ER	3	231 (24/207)
Boeing 787-9	5 planned

External links

★ Aerosvit Airlines

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. ASN Aircraft accident description Yakovlev 42 UR-42334 - Thessaloniki Aviation Safety Network
3. Our Fleet AeroSvit