ATLANT-SOYUZ AIRLINES

'JSC "Atlant-Soyuz Airlines"' () is an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates domestic and international passenger and cargo flights. The airlines main passenger base is located at Moscows Vnukovo International Airport, whilst the bulk of its cargo flights are operated from Domodedovo International Airport..

Contents

History

Destinations

Fleet

Previously operated

External links

References

History

The airline was established and operations started in June 1993. It is owned by private investors (75%) and the City of Moscow (25%). It has 726 employees^[4].
Atlant-Soyuz and Evergreen International Airlines of Oregon, are to establish a new joint venture, operating scheduled cargo services between the United States and China, via Russia and Western Europe.^[5]

Destinations

Atlant-Soyuz Airlines operates the following services (as at May 2007):
Domestic scheduled passenger destinations: Anapa, Moscow, Novokuznetsk, Saint Petersburg and SochiEgypt, Europe, Jordan, Moscow Tunisia, Turkey
Domestic and international charter cargo destinations: Astrakhan, Baghdad, Benghazi, Bratislava, Bratsk, Delhi, Dubai, Istanbul, Kabul Khabarovsk, Khartoum, Moscow, Mwanza, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Seoul, Tianjin, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Zagreb^[6]

Fleet

Atlant-Soyuz Ilyushin Il-96-300 (RA-96002) seen at MAKS in August 2005

Atlant-Soyuz Ilyushin Il-76 at Balad Air Base in Iraq

The Atlant-Soyuz fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2007) :

★ 2 Boeing 737-300

★ 2 Ilyushin Il-76MD

★ 6 Ilyushin Il-76TD

★ 8 Ilyushin Il-86

★ 4 Tupolev Tu-154M

★ 1 Yakovlev Yak-42

★ On order: 5 Tupolev Tu-334-100

★ On order: 12 Embraer 120

★ On order: 4 Boeing 737-700 [1]
In November 2006 the airline took delivery of 2 Boeing 737-300 aircraft (registrations VP-BBL and VP-BBM). Both aircraft are ex-Delta Air Lines and had been stored in Tucson, Arizona^[7].

Previously operated

At August 2006 the airline also operated^[8] :

★ 2 Tupolev Tu-154B

External links

★ Atlant-Soyuz Airlines

References

1. Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", ''Airline Reference'', Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 20 February 2007, p. 94
2. Atlant-Soyuz official website "Management"
3. Atlant-Soyuz official website "About us"
4. Directory: World Airlines
5. Joint venture
6. Atlant-Soyuz official website "Cargo transportation"
7. Airliner World, February 2007
8. Flight International, 3-9 October 2006