Domodedovo Airlines

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Domodedovo Airlines Домодедовские авиалинии

IATA E3	ICAO DMO	Callsign DOMODEDOVO
Founded		1964
Hubs		Domodedovo International Airport
Frequent flyer program		AiRUnion PREMIUM, AkademStar Premium (for students
Alliance		AiRUnion
Fleet size		13
Destinations		19
Headquarters		Moscow, Russia
Key people		Sergey Borisovich Yanovoi (General Director)
Website: http://www.akdal.ru/

JSC "Domodedovo Airlines" (Russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания «Домодедовские авиалинии») is an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates scheduled flights within Russia and the CIS, with a focus on flights to the Russian Far East. The airline also operates scheduled and ad-hoc charter flights to China, Europe, Thailand, Maldives, Malaysia and Singapore. It is based at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

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Domodedovo United Air Detachment (Russian: Домодедовского объединенного авиаотряда), a division of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines, was established in March 1964 , when Flight Units 206, 211 and 202 were transferred to Domodedovo Airport from Vnukovo Airport. The division was set up to operate long-haul services within the USSR, particularly to the Russian Far East and the Central Asian republics. All flights of the airline were operated as part of Aeroflot services.

On 25 March 1964 the airline operated its first revenue service with a Tupolev Tu-114 on a flight from Domodedovo Airport to Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. In 1978 , with an Ilyushin Il-62, the airline started non-stop operations on the longest domestic service in the world, Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a distance of some 6,800km. In 1979 the airline was renamed to Domodedovo Civil Aviation Production Association (Domodedovo CAPA) (Russian: Домодедовское производственное объединение гражданской авиации (ДПО ГА)).

Domodedovo CAPA was officially separated from Aeroflot on 20 January 1993, when it was awarded with operator licence №4 by the State Civil Aviation Service. In January 1998 , as a result of the restructuring of Domodedovo CAPA in which the airport and airline were separated, the entity which is today known as Domodedovo Airlines was established as Domodedovo Airlines, JSC.

It was partially privatised in 2001 , with the ministry of property retaining a controlling stake^[1]. In October 2004 KrasAir and Domodedovo set up a joint management company called Air Bridge. While retaining separate legal identities the airlines are planning to integrate their networks and services, which are largely complementary. The alliance was renamed AiRUnion in 2005 . Domodedovo Airlines is owned by State holding (50.4%) and ATON (49.6%) and has 1,489 employees (at March 2007)^[1].

[edit] Destinations

As of October 2007, Domodedovo Airlines operates scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:^[2]
Country	City	Airport	Notes
Russia
Russia	Anadyr	Ugolny Airport
	Blagoveshchensk	Ignatyevo Airport
	Khabarovsk	Khabarovsk Novy Airport
	Krasnoyarsk	Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Airport
	Moscow	Domodedovo International Airport	Hub
	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport
	Vladivostok	Vladivostok International Airport
	Yakutsk	Yakutsk Airport
	Yekaterinburg	Koltsovo International Airport
	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport
Africa
Egypt	Hurghada	Hurghada International Airport
Asia
Azerbaijan	Baku	Heydar Aliyev International Airport
	Ganja	Ganja Airport
China	Beijing	Beijing Capital International Airport
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Dushanbe Airport
Uzbekistan	Bukhara	Bukhara Airport
	Fergana	Fergana Airport
	Samarkand	Samarkand Airport
	Tashkent	Tashkent International Airport

[edit] Fleet

The Domodedovo Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of March 2007)^[1]:

**Domodedovo Airlines Fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers (Business*/Economy)
Ilyushin Il-96-300	5	248 (18/230) 252 (22/230)
Tupolev Tu-154M	3	145 (8/137) 149 (8/141) 164 (0/164) 166 (0/166)
Ilyushin Il-62M	5	138/174

In addition to the fleet listed above, Domodedovo Airlines also utilises many aircraft from the KrasAir fleet for its scheduled services, which include Boeing 737, Tupolev Tu-204, Tupolev Tu-214 and Boeing 767-200.^{[citation needed]}