Orenburg Airlines or JSC Orenair (russian: Оренбургские авиалинии) was a Russian

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

with its head office on the property of

Orenburg Tsentralny Airport : ''Tsentraly may also refer to airports in Spilve Airport, Riga, Khodynka Aerodrome, Moscow, Omsk Tsentralny Airport, Omsk, or Saratov Tsentralny Airport, Saratov.'' Orenburg Airport (russian: Аэропорт Оренбург) is a civil air ...

Orenburg Orenburg (russian: Оренбу́рг, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is also very close to the Kazakhstan-Russia bor ...

. It operated domestic passenger services and inclusive tour charters, as well as aerial work and special flights. Its main base was

and it had hubs at Domodedovo and

Simferopol International Airport Simferopol International Airport ( uk, Міжнародний аеропорт "Сімферополь", ''Mizhnarodnyy aeroport "Simferopol’"''; russian: link=, Международный аэропорт "Симферополь", ''Mezhdunar ...

History

The airline was formed from the

Aeroflot PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...

Orenburg Division, which was established in 1932. In 1992 it began to operate under the name ''Orenair''. It was the first Russian domestic airline to introduce the hub system of connecting flights in Orenburg, providing a full service for transfer passengers, and was the first Russian domestic airline to introduce through air fares. In 2010, Orenair was acquired by Aeroflot and was likely to engage in fleet modernization as a result of the merger. Orenair recently acquired

Air Austral Air Austral is a French airline, based at the Roland Garros Airport, in the Indian Ocean. It operates scheduled services from Réunion to metropolitan France, South Africa, Thailand, India and a number of destinations in the Indian Ocean. The c ...

's B777-200ER F-ORUN, which Air Austral had been trying to sell for a year. In April 2016

planned to merge Orenair and

Donavia JSC "Donavia" (russian: ОАО «Донавиа»), also known as Aeroflot-Don (russian: ОАО «Аэрофлот-Дон») between 2000–2009, was an Aeroflot subsidiary airline based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Its main bases were Rostov-on-D ...

into Rossiya to form one larger airline based in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow and Rostov-On-Don. The former Orenair fleet will carry the Rossiya livery. On 26 May 2016 the airline's air operator's certificate was revoked after integration into Rossiya.

Fleet

Orenair Boeing 737-800 VQ-BIZ SVO Jan 2014

Orenair_Boeing_777-2Q8_ER_VQ-BNU_(6964580665)

Fleet at time of merger

In April 2016 the entire Orenair fleet was assigned to Rossiya. The remaining Orenair fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of December 2016 the remaining 777 was at Phoenix Goodyear Airport):Orenair official page
d Jan. 01, 2015

Previously operated

As of August 2006 the airline also operated: *1

Yakovlev Yak-40 The Yakovlev Yak-40 (russian: Яковлев Як-40; NATO reporting name: Codling) is a regional jet designed by Yakovlev. The trijet's maiden flight was in 1966, and it was in production from 1967 to 1981. Introduced in September 1968, the Ya ...

Tupolev Tu-134 The Tupolev Tu-134 (NATO reporting name: Crusty) is a twin-engined, narrow-body jet airliner built in the Soviet Union for short and medium-haul routes from 1966 to 1989. The original version featured a glazed-nose design and, like certain ot ...

Tupolev Tu-154B The Tupolev Tu-154 (russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russ ...

Tupolev Tu-154M The Tupolev Tu-154 (russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian ...

Tupolev Tu-204-100 The Tupolev Tu-204 (russian: Туполев Ту-204) is a Twinjet, twin-engined medium-Range (aircraft), range Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body jet airliner capable of carrying 210 passengers, designed by Tupolev and produced by Aviastar-SP a ...

Boeing 737-500 The Boeing 737 Classic is a series of narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliners produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, the second generation of the Boeing 737 series of aircraft. Development began in 1979 and the first variant, the 737-300, ...

Incidents

*On 10 February 2016 Orenair Flight 2554 departing from

Punta Cana International Airport Punta Cana International Airport is a privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport was built with open-air terminals and roofs covered in palm fronds. Grupo Punta Cana built the airport, which was de ...

Domodedovo International Airport Domodedovo may refer to: * Domodedovo International Airport, an airport in Russia *Domodedovo (town), a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia *Domodedovo District, an administrative raion of Moscow Oblast, Russia *Domodedovo Airlines, a defunct Russian airl ...

experienced an engine failure, which caused fire and smoke in the cabin. The aircraft returned to Punta Cana, without fatalities or injuries.

References

External links

Official website
{{Airlines of Russia Defunct airlines of Russia Former Aeroflot divisions Airlines established in 1992 Airlines disestablished in 2016 1992 establishments in Russia 2016 disestablishments in Russia Companies based in Orenburg Oblast