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Omskavia (
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
:ОмскА́виа) was an
airline
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...
based in
Omsk,
Russia
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. It operated domestic and international scheduled and
charter, passenger,
cargo
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and
mail services, as well as aircraft maintenance. Its main bases were
Tsentralny Airport, Omsk, and
Domodedovo International Airport,
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
.
The airline joined the AirBridge alliance in 2004, which was restructured as
AiRUnion
AiRUnion was a Russian airline alliance. It was the first airline alliance ever established in Russia. Member airlines and their affiliates enjoyed a high degree of co-operation in scheduling, ticketing, code sharing, flight transfer operation ...
in the summer of 2005.
As of 17 October 2008 the Russian Aviation Authority suspended its flights.
History
Omskavia was split off from
Aeroflot in the early 1990s and was formed as a result of the separation of Omsk State Air Enterprise into airline and airport enterprises. It was established and started operations on 1 February 1994. The airline is owned by
KrasAir
KrasAir or Krasnoyarsk Airlines (russian: Красноярские авиалинии) was a Russian airline with its head office on the grounds of Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Airport in Krasnoyarsk. It operated scheduled regional and international pa ...
(71%) and other shareholders (29%).
Destinations
Omskavia has regular scheduled flights to
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
,
Nizhnevartovsk
Nizhnevartovsk ( rus, Нижневартовск, p=nʲɪʐnʲɪˈvartəfsk) is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, Russia. Since the 1960s, the Western Siberian oil boom led to Nizhnevartovsk's rapid growth from a small settlement t ...
,
Sochi in Russia, and
Frankfurt
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,
Hanover
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,
Cologne
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in
Germany
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. It also charters flights to the
Mediterranean
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, Middle Eastern resorts and
Thailand
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.
Since 1996, Omskavia has been leasing airplanes to Iranian airline
Mahan Air
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. In 2006, four of Omskavia's Tu-154M are scheduled to fly in
Iran
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.
Fleet
The Omskavia fleet included the following aircraft (as of 3 June 2008):
*3
Tupolev Tu-154M (which are operated for
Kras Air)
On order: 4
Tupolev Tu-214
The Tupolev Tu-204 (russian: Туполев Ту-204) is a twin-engined medium- range narrow-body jet airliner capable of carrying 210 passengers, designed by Tupolev and produced by Aviastar-SP and Kazan Aircraft Production Association. Fir ...
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Omskavia
Former Aeroflot divisions
Airlines established in 1994
Airlines disestablished in 2008
Defunct airlines of Russia
Companies based in Omsk
Russian companies established in 1994
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