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Founded | 1992 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2016 (merged withRossiya) | ||||||
Hubs | Orenburg Tsentralny Airport | ||||||
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Fleet size | 19 | ||||||
Destinations | 12 | ||||||
Parent company | Aeroflot | ||||||
Headquarters | Orenburg,Russia | ||||||
Key people | Victor Zyukin (Acting General Director) | ||||||
Website | orenair.ru |
Orenburg Airlines orJSC Orenair (Russian:Оренбургские авиалинии[2][3]) was a Russianairline with its head office on the property ofOrenburg Tsentralny Airport inOrenburg.[4] It operated domestic passenger services and inclusive tour charters, as well as aerial work and special flights. Its main base wasOrenburg Tsentralny Airport and it had hubs atDomodedovo andSimferopol International Airport.[5]
The airline was formed from theAeroflot Orenburg Division, which was established in 1932. In 1992, it began to operate under the nameOrenair. It was the first Russian domestic airline to introduce the hub system of connecting flights in Orenburg, providing a full service for transfer passengers, and was the first Russian domestic airline to introduce through air fares.[5]
In 2010, Orenair was acquired by Aeroflot and was likely to engage in fleet modernization as a result of the merger.[6] In 2015, Orenair acquiredAir Austral's B777-200ER F-ORUN, which Air Austral had been trying to sell for a year.[7]
In April 2016,Aeroflot planned to merge Orenair andDonavia intoRossiya to form one larger airline based in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow and Rostov-On-Don. The former Orenair fleet will carry theRossiya livery.[8] On 26 May 2016, the airline's air operator's certificate was revoked after integration intoRossiya.
In April 2016, the entire Orenair fleet was assigned toRossiya. The remaining Orenair fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of December 2016 the remaining 777 was at Phoenix Goodyear Airport):[9][10]
Aircraft | In fleet | Orders | Passengers | Notes | |||
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C | Y+ | Y | Total | ||||
Boeing 777-200ER | 1 | — | 14 | 34 | 316 | 364[9] | Stored at PUJ, to be transferred toRossiya |
Total | 1 |
As of August 2006 the airline also operated:[11]
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