Aerosvit Airlines

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Aerosvit Airlines (Ukrainian: Авіакомпанія АероСвіт, Aviakompaniya AeroSvit; Russian: ) is an airline based in Kiev, Ukraine. It operates scheduled services from Ukraine to 14 destinations in Russia, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary and other countries. It also operates some international charter flights and has a domestic network. Its main base is Boryspil State International Airport (KBP), Kiev.

Contents

1 Code data
2 History
3 Services
4 Accidents & Incidents
5 Fleet
6 See also
7 External links

Code data

UR-VVB Boeing 737 at Birmingham International Airport

IATA Code: VV
ICAO Code: AEW
Callsign: Aerosvit
Boeing code: UKA

History

The airline was established on 25 March 1994 and started operations in April 1994 with flights from Kiev to Tel Aviv, Odessa, Thessaloniki, Athens and Larnaca in co-operation with Air Ukraine. In October 1994 it started to dry-lease Boeing 737-200 aircraft as the network expanded to include flights to Moscow.

Aerosvit Airlines is owned by Aerotur-Agency for Air Communications and Tourism (Ukraine) (40%), Gilward Investments (Netherlands) (38%) and State Property Fund of the Ukraine (22%).

Services

Aerosvit Airlines operates the following services (July 2006):

Accidents & Incidents

In December 1997 Aerosvit Flight 241 crashed near Thessaloniki, killing all 70 people aboard.

Fleet

The all-Boeing Aerosvit Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (January 2006):

External links

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