KrasAir

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KrasAir Красноярские авиалинии
IATA 7B	ICAO KJC	Callsign Krasnoyarsk Air
Founded		1993
Hubs		Krasnoyarsk
Frequent flyer program		AiRUnion Premium, AkademStar Premium (for students)
Alliance		AiRUnion
Fleet size		39
Destinations		57
Headquarters		Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Key people		Boris Abramovich (CEO), Alexander Abramovich (Deputy CEO)
Website: http://www.krasair.ru/

KrasAir or Krasnoyarsk Airlines (Russian: Красноярские авиалинии) is the fourth largest domestic carrier in Russia and is based in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. It operates scheduled regional and international passenger services, freight transport, cargo handling and charter services ^[1].

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Fleet 4 External links 5 References

[edit] History

The airline sprang from the Yenisey airwing (set up in 1934) of Aeroflot and was established in 1982. In 1993 it was privatised and organised as a joint stock company. In October 2004 KrasAir and Domodedovo Airlines set up a joint management company called Air Bridge. The airline is owned by the city government of Krasnoyarsk (51%) and Air Bridge Management (49%) ^[1].

KrasAir is owned by Boris Abramovich (CEO, no relation to Roman Abramovich) and his brother Alexander Abramovich (deputy CEO). The Abramovich brothers' aggressive expansion campaign led to the creation of AiRUnion alliance in 2005, the first airline alliance in Russia. It includes KrasAir, Domodedovo Airlines, Samara Airlines, Omskavia and Sibaviatrans and is the third largest domestic carrier in Russia. All of the member airlines are virtually controlled by Krasair.It also plans on joining the star alliance team once it has fully joined up all the Air union alliance. ^{[citation needed]}

In 2005 KrasAir attempted to expand internationally, placing a winning bid in Hungary's national carrier Malév privatisation tender. The tender results were annulled by Hungarian authorities ^[2].

KrasAir managers are part of a venture together with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development to create a new low-cost airline called SkyExpress. This airline will be based at Vnukovo Airport and fly initially to domestic routes, using as many as 44 Boeing 737-300/500s. The airline's airfares are to be 30-40% cheaper than other carriers. ^[3]

[edit] Services

As of January 2005 KrasAir operates the following services ^[1] :

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Adler/Sochi, Barnaul, Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Rostov, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yakutsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
• International scheduled destinations: Almaty, Baku, Bangkok, Colombo, Dushanbe, Hanover, Khujand, Malé, Tashkent, Yerevan.

[edit] Fleet

As of August 2006 the KrasAir fleet includes ^[4] :

• 5 Boeing 737-300
• 3 Boeing 767-200ER
• 1 Ilyushin Il-76
• 3 Ilyushin Il-76TD
• 4 Ilyushin Il-86
• 4 Tupolev Tu-154B
• 11 Tupolev Tu-154M
• 3 Tupolev Tu-204-100 (plus 1 order)
• 1 Tupolev Tu-214
• 3 Yakovlev Yak-40
• 2 Yakovlev Yak-42
• On order: 11 Antonov 148

[edit] External links

• KrasAir

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Flight International 5-11 April 2005
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ http://www.kommersant.com/p705784/EBRD_to_Fund_Russia’s_First_Budget_Airline/ Kommersant]
4. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006