AVE.com was a Kyrgyz-UAE airline based in
Sharjah
Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area.
Sharjah is the capital o ...
,
United Arab Emirates
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with its base at
Sharjah International Airport
Sharjah International Airport ( ar, مطار الشارقة, Maṭār aš-Šāriqa) () is an international airport located east-southeast of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is spread over an area of . It has one runway, making it the only air ...
, offered charter flights and
aircraft lease
Aircraft leases are leases used by airlines and other aircraft operators. Airlines lease aircraft from other airlines or leasing companies for two main reasons: to operate aircraft without the financial burden of buying them, and to provide tempora ...
services.
AVE.com was established in 2005 by the renaming of
Phoenix Aviation
AVE.com was a Kyrgyz-UAE airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with its base at Sharjah International Airport, offered charter flights and aircraft lease services. AVE.com was established in 2005 by the renaming of Phoenix Aviation
AVE ...
AVE.com was owned by Evgeny Khaprov and Vladimir Goncharov and (as of 2007) had 230 employees.
History
Phoenix Aviation was established and started operations in 1996. It was rebranded as ''AVE.com'' in October 2005.
The airline was blacklisted by the
Government of the United Kingdom
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due to poor safety standards, and was added to a newly created
European Union blacklist in 2006.
Services
As ''Phoenix Aviation'', the company operated the following services in January 2005:
*Domestic scheduled services:
Bishkek
Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...
and
Osh
Osh (Kyrgyz: Ош, romanised Osh; uz, O‘sh/Ўш) is the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, located in the Fergana Valley in the south of the country and often referred to as the "capital of the south". It is the oldest city in the country (e ...
.
*International scheduled services:
Jinnah International Airport
Jinnah International Airport ( ur, جناح بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا) , formerly Drigh Road Airport or Karachi Civil Airport, is Pakistan's busiest international and domestic airport, and handled 7,267,582 passengers in 2017 ...
,
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
.
Fleet
![AVE Boeing 737-200 Pichugin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/AVE_Boeing_737-200_Pichugin.jpg)
AVE.com operated the following aircraft:
See also
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List of defunct airlines of the United Arab Emirates
This is a list of now defunct airlines of the United Arab Emirates.
See also
* List of airlines of the United Arab Emirates
* List of airports in the United Arab Emirates
References
{{List of defunct airlines
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United Arab Emirates
Airline ...
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List of defunct airlines of Kyrgyzstan
This is a list of defunct airlines of Kyrgyzstan.
See also
* List of airlines of Kyrgyzstan
* List of airports in Kyrgyzstan
References
{{List of defunct airlines
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Kyrgyzstan
Airlines
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References
External links
Official websitearchivePhoenix Aviation
{{Airlines of the United Arab Emirates
Defunct airlines of the United Arab Emirates
Airlines established in 1996
Airlines disestablished in 2012
Emirati companies established in 1996