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Donavia
Донавиа
Founded	15 June 1925 (as a squadron)
Ceased operations	27 March 2016 (merged with Rossiya)
Hubs	Rostov-on-Don Airport
Focus cities	Mineralnye Vody Airport; Moscow Domodedovo Airport; Sochi International Airport;
Frequent-flyer program	Aeroflot Bonus
Alliance	SkyTeam (affiliate)
Fleet size	20
Destinations	20
Parent company	Aeroflot (100%)
Headquarters	Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Key people	Mikhail Stepanovich Kritskiy (Director General)
Website	aeroflot-don.ru

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JSC "Donavia" (Template:Lang-ru) was an Aeroflot subsidiary^[2] airline based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.^[3]^[4] Its main bases were Rostov-on-Don Airport and Mineralnye Vody Airport after the Kavminvodyavia bankruptcy.^[1] It was known as Aeroflot-Don (Template:Lang-ru) from 2000–2009. In the spring of 2016, its operations and aircraft were merged into sister company Rossiya.

History

The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airline Aeroflot,l. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was rebranded as Don 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 as Aeroflot-Don on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to the Middle East and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name and the airline adopted Airbus A319-151 and operated for ten years until operations were folded into Rossiya Airlines in 2016

Destinations

Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:

Asia

^* The political status of Crimea is the subject of a political and territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine.

Fleet

In April 2016, the entire Donavia fleet was reassigned to Rossiya.^[6]^[7]

Donavia fleet as of 2015
aircraft	in service	orders
Airbus A319	10	0
Boeing 737-400	3	0
Boeing 737-500	7	0

Retried fleet


aircraft	introduced	retried
Ilyushin Il-86	unknown	unknown
Tupolev Tu-134	unknown	2008
Tupolev Tu-154	unknown	2009

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 20 February 2007, p. 122
^ ^a ^b ^c "UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AEROFLOT". 2 October 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
^ "Контакты авиакомпании Archived 6 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272."
^ "Directory:World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 48. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia"
^ "Scheduled flights". INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON. JSC Donavia. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
^ "Donavia Fleet Details and History".
^ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Rossiya ^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

Media related to Donavia at Wikimedia Commons

Official website (in Russian)

[ATM-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 20 February 2007, p. 122

[D9+SU-2] "UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AEROFLOT". 2 October 2011. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2011.

[3] "Контакты авиакомпании Archived 6 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272."

[4] "Directory:World Airlines." Flight International. 16–22 March 2004. 48. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia"

[5] "Scheduled flights". INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON. JSC Donavia. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2013.

[6] "Donavia Fleet Details and History".

[7] ttps://www.planespotters.net/airline/Rossiya ^{[permanent dead link‍]}

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 [[File:Ilyushin Il-86 Aeroflot Don.jpg|thumb|Aeroflot-Don [[Ilyushin Il-86]] in 2008]]
-The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airline [[Aeroflot]], following the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, it was rebranded as ''Don Airlines'' ("''Donavia''") in 1993. It absorbed the Rostov assets of Aeroflot, and was one of many such "[[Babyflot]]s" to emerge in the early 1990s. However, the airline was purchased by Aeroflot in 2000 and began to operate as ''Aeroflot-Don'' on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to the [[Middle East]] and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name and the airline adopted [[Airbus A319-151]] and operated for ten years until operations were folded into [[Rossiya Airlines]] in 2016
+The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airline [[Aeroflot]],l. Following the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, it was rebranded as ''Don Airlines'' ("''Donavia''") in 1993. It absorbed the Rostov assets of Aeroflot, and was one of many such "[[Babyflot]]s" to emerge in the early 1990s. However, the airline was purchased by Aeroflot in 2000 and began to operate as ''Aeroflot-Don'' on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to the [[Middle East]] and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name and the airline adopted [[Airbus A319-151]] and operated for ten years until operations were folded into [[Rossiya Airlines]] in 2016
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