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Founded | 15 June 1925 (as a squadron) | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 27 March 2016 (merged withRossiya) | ||||||
Hubs | Rostov-on-Don Airport[1] | ||||||
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Frequent-flyer program | Aeroflot Bonus[2] | ||||||
Alliance | SkyTeam (affiliate)[2] | ||||||
Fleet size | 20 | ||||||
Destinations | 20 | ||||||
Parent company | Aeroflot (100%) | ||||||
Headquarters | Rostov-on-Don,Russia | ||||||
Key people | Mikhail Stepanovich Kritskiy (Director General)[1] | ||||||
Website | aeroflot-don.ru |
JSC "Donavia" (Russian:ОАО «Донавиа») was anAeroflotsubsidiary[2]airline based inRostov-on-Don,Russia.[3][4] Its main bases wereRostov-on-Don Airport andMineralnye Vody Airport after theKavminvodyaviabankruptcy.[1] It was known asAeroflot-Don (Russian:ОАО «Аэрофлот-Дон») from 2000–2009. In the spring of 2016, its operations and aircraft were merged into sister companyRossiya.
The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airlineAeroflot. Following thedissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was rebranded asDon Airlines ("Donavia") in 1993. It absorbed the Rostov assets of Aeroflot, and was one of many such "Babyflots" to emerge in the early 1990s. However, the airline was purchased by Aeroflot in 2000 and began to operate asAeroflot-Don on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to theMiddle East and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name and the airline adoptedAirbus A319-151 and operated for ten years until operations were folded intoRossiya Airlines in 2016.
Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:
^*The political status of Crimea is the subject of a political and territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
In April 2016, the entire Donavia fleet was reassigned toRossiya.[citation needed]
aircraft | in service | orders | |
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Airbus A319 | 10 | 0 | |
Boeing 737-400 | 3 | 0 | |
Boeing 737-500 | 7 | 0 |
Retired fleet
aircraft | introduced | retired | |
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Ilyushin Il-86 | unknown | unknown | |
Tupolev Tu-134 | unknown | 2008 | |
Tupolev Tu-154 | unknown | 2009 |
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