Sky Georgia ( Georgian: საერთაშორისო ავიაკომპანია „სქაი ჯორჯია“ - saertašoriso aviaqompania «sqai dzhordzhia») was an

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from Tbilisi, Georgia, operating out of

Tbilisi International Airport Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport ( ka, თბილისის შოთა რუსთაველის სახელობის საერთაშორისო აეროპორტი) , formerly ''Novo Alexeyevka In ...

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3 April 2007

History

The airline was established in 1998 as ''Air Bisec''.Air Bisec, Georgian National Airlines and Sky Georgia at airlineupdate.com
/ref> In 2004, it was renamed ''Georgian National Airlines''. The current ''Sky Georgia'' brand was adopted in 2008, when the company was acquired by US-based Sky Investment Group.News on Sky Georgia at ch-aviation.ch
/ref> In October 2009, the airline ceased all scheduled flights and stated that it would concentrate on cargo rather than on passenger transport. In January 2010, three Ilyushin Il-76 freighter aircraft were leased. Georgy Kodua was general director and CEO of Sky Georgia.) ( ka, გიორგი კოდუა) who was the president of Georgian National Airlines during the 2006 Georgian–Russian espionage controversy, demanded that Russia compensate Georgian National Airlines for its lost revenue due to Russia closing its airspace to Georgian air carriers. At that time, his brother Irakli Kodua (russian: Ираклий (Эрекле) Кодуа) ( ka, ირაკლი (ერეკლე) კოდუა) was the head of the Georgian Internal Affairs Ministry's special department (russian: спецдепартамента МВД Грузии). Georgy Kodua is the founder and president of Air Georgia. Georgy Kodua was the founder and president of Air Caucasus. In February 2016, Georgy Kodua's older brother David Kodua (russian: Давид Кодуа) ( ka, დავით კოდუა), a businessman who owns the Commerce Group ( ka, კომერციული ჯგუფი), was trying to develop the Casino Georgia Hotel into a

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. David Kodua was a former business partner of Noshrevan Namoradze ( ka, ნოშრევან ნამორაძე) who was responsible for the violent 3 May 2014 attack on Davit Kodua. During 2007, the airline (which was called Georgian National Airlines at that time) had a

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with

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on the latter's route from Riga to Tbilisi.News on Georgian National Airlines at ch-aviation.ch
/ref> In summer 2008, scheduled and charter services were operated from Tbilisi, Kutaisi and

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to destinations in Europe and Central Asia. On 9 August 2008, following the outbreak of the

2008 South Ossetia war The 2008 Russo-Georgian WarThe war is known by a variety of other names, including Five-Day War, August War and Russian invasion of Georgia. was a war between Georgia, on one side, and Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of Sou ...

, Georgian National Airlines was banned from operating into

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. After the crisis, flights were not resumed.

Destinations

Georgian National Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 Ryabtsev

As of January 2011, the official Sky Georgia timetable does not list any scheduled flights.

Former destinations

Sky Georgia used to serve the following scheduled destinations: ;Asia *

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Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

;Europe *

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Fleet

Historic fleet

Over the years, the airline operated the following aircraft types: *

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 ...

B (until 2007) *

Bombardier CRJ200 The Bombardier CRJ100 and CRJ200 (previously Canadair CRJ100 and CRJ200) is a regional jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace between 1991 and 2006, the first of the Bombardier CRJ family. The ''Canadair Regional Jet'' (CRJ) ...

(2007–2008) * Ilyushin Il-76T (from 2010) *

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Sky Georgia fleet list at planespotters.net
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Notes

References

External links

Official website
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