Donavia

Russian airline

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Donavia
Донавиа

IATA	ICAO	Callsign
D9^[1]	DNV^[1]	DONAVIA^[1]

Founded

15 June 1925 (as a squadron)

Ceased operations

27 March 2016 (merged with Rossiya)

Hubs

Rostov-on-Don Airport^[1]

Focus cities

Mineralnye Vody Airport
Moscow Domodedovo Airport
Sochi International Airport

Frequent-flyer program

Aeroflot Bonus^[2]

Alliance

SkyTeam (affiliate)^[2]

Fleet size

Destinations

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 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 (Russian: ОАО «Аэрофлот-Дон») 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. 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)

Aeroflot

Part of the SkyTeam alliance

Subsidiaries

Active	Pobeda Rossiya
Inactive	Dobrolet Donavia Orenair SAT Airlines Vladivostok Air
Exited	Aurora Nordavia (now Smartavia)

Fleet

Accidents and
incidents

1950s	Flight 31 Kiev mid-air collision Flight 04 Тu-104 Kanash crash Flight 120 Flight 200 Flight 315
1960s	Flight 315 Flight 207 Flight 036 Flight 068 Flight 245 Flight 902 Flight 415 Flight 03 Flight 213 Flight 191 Flight 25 Flight 012 Flight 366 Flight 663 Flight 721 Flight 101/X-20 Flight 542 Flight 513 Flight 99 Flight 065 Flight 2723 Flight 5003 Flight 2230 Flight L-51 Flight 1668 Flight 15 Flight 831 Flight N-826
1970s	Flight U-45 Flight 1661 Flight 3630 CCCP-11000 crash CCCP-12996 crash Flight 1969 Flight 1912 Flight 773 Flight 2174 Flight 1491 Flight 558 Flight 1036 Flight 217 Flight 6263 Flight 141 Flight 630 Flight 6551 Flight 109 Flight A-13 Flight 3932 Flight 964 Flight 19 Flight 2022 CCCP-75559 crash Flight 662 Flight 2003 Flight 3739 Flight 909 Flight 1802 Flight 418 Flights 7957 and 31 Flight 2415 Flight N-36 Flight 3843 Flight 5003 Flight 331 Flight B-2 Flight 6709 Flight 1080 Flight 1691 Flights 7628 and 7880 Flight 5484
1980s	Flight 4225 Flight 498 Flight 811 Flight 3603 Flight 8641 Flight 411 Flight 343 Flight 5463 Flight 601 Flight 3352 Flight 3519 Flight 7841 Zolochiv mid-air collision Flight 5143 Flight 101/435 Flight 2306 Flight 6502 Flight 892 Flight U-505 Flight N-528 Flight 699 Flight 3739
since 1990s	CCCP-46472 crash Flight 2808 Flight 593 Flight 521 Flight 821 Flight 1492

Airlines of Russia

Full-service

Major	Aeroflot Rossiya Airlines S7 Airlines Ural Airlines Utair
Minor	Alrosa Aurora Azimuth IrAero NordStar Yakutia Airlines Yamal Airlines

Low-cost/budget

Pobeda
Smartavia

Leisure

Regional

Charter

International	I-Fly
Regional	AeroBratsk Dexter Air Taxi Jet Express Airlines Jet-2000 Kazan Air Enterprise Kosmos Airlines Lukiaviatrans LUKoil-Avia Sibia Simargl Air Company Sirius-Aero Smolenskaerotrans

Cargo

Defunct

Full-service

Major	Domodedovo Airlines Interavia Airlines Kras Air Moskovia Airlines Transaero VIM Airlines Vnukovo Airlines
Minor	Atlant-Soyuz Airlines Baikal Airlines BAL Bashkirian Airlines Dalavia Globus Airlines Kavminvodyavia Kuban Airlines Pulkovo Airlines Saratov Airlines Vladivostok Air

Low-cost

Avianova
Dobrolet
Sky Express
UTair Express

Regional

Charter

International	Center-South Metrojet Orenair Royal Flight Vyborg Airlines
Regional	Alania Airlines Artel Staratelei "Amur" Airlines Chernomor-Avia Estar Avia Grozny Avia Ryazanaviatrans Skol Airlines Solaris Airlines Transeuropean Airlines Tuva Airlines Zonalnoye Air Enterprise

Executive

Aeroflot-Plus

Cargo

Alliances

AiRUnion

Other

Babyflot

By number of passengers

Members of SkyTeam

Current members

Founder members	Aeroméxico Air France Delta Air Lines Korean Air
Full members	Aerolíneas Argentinas Air Europa China Airlines China Eastern Airlines Czech Airlines Garuda Indonesia ITA Airways Kenya Airways KLM Middle East Airlines Saudia TAROM Vietnam Airlines Virgin Atlantic XiamenAir
Affiliate members	Air Europa Express Air France Hop Aeroméxico Connect Delta Connection Delta Shuttle KLM Cityhopper Mandarin Airlines Shanghai Airlines

Former members

Full members	Alitalia China Southern Airlines Continental Airlines Northwest Airlines
Affiliate members	Aeroméxico Travel Alitalia Express Alitalia CityLiner Austral Líneas Aéreas Brit Air CityJet Comair Delta Express Dobrolet Donavia Joon Régional Song
Associate members	Copa Airlines