Domodedovo Airlines

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Domodedovo Airlines ОАО «Авиакомпания «Домодедовские авиалинии»

IATA E3	ICAO DMO	Callsign Domodedovo
Founded		1964
Hubs		Moscow Domodedovo Airport
Frequent flyer program		AiRUnion PREMIUM, AkademStar Premium (for students
Alliance		AiRUnion
Fleet size
Destinations
Headquarters		Moscow, Russia
Key people		Sergey Borisovich Yanovoi (General Director)
Website: http://www.akdal.ru/

Domodedovo Airlines (Russian: Домодедовские авиалинии) is an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates scheduled flights within Russia and the CIS, with a focus on flights to the Russian Far East. The airline also operates scheduled and ad-hoc charter flights to China, Europe, Thailand, Maldives, Malaysia and Singapore. It is based at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.

1 History
2 Services
3 Fleet
4 External links

[edit] History

Domodedovo United Air Detachment (Russian: Домодедовского объединенного авиаотряда), a division of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines, was established in March 1964, when Flight Units 206, 211 and 202 were transferred to Domodedovo Airport from Vnukovo Airport. The division was set up to operate long-haul services within the USSR, particularly to the Russian Far East and the Central Asian republics. All flights of the airline were operated as part of Aeroflot services.

On 25 March 1964 the airline operated it's first revenue service with a Tupolev Tu-114 on a flight from Domodedovo Airport to Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. In 1978, with an Ilyushin Il-62, the airline started non-stop operations on the longest domestic service in the world, Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a distance of some 6,800km.

In 1979 the airline was renamed to Domodedovo Civil Aviation Production Association (Domodedovo CAPA) (Russian: Домодедовское производственное объединение гражданской авиации (ДПО ГА)).

Domodedovo CAPA was officially separated from Aeroflot on 20 January 1993, when it was awarded with operator licence №4 by the State Civil Aviation Service (GSGA) (Russian: Государственная служба гражданской авиации (ГСГА)).

In January 1998, as a result of the restructuring of Domodedovo CAPA in which the airport and airline were separated, the entity which is today known as Domodedovo Airlines was established as Domodedovo Airlines, JSC.

In October 2004 KrasAir and Domodedovo set up a joint management company called Air Bridge. While retaining separate legal identities the airlines are planning to integrate their networks and services, which are largely complementary. Domodedovo Airlines is owned by State holding (50.4%) and Air Bridge Management (49.6%). It is a member of AiRUnion alliance.

[edit] Services

Domodedovo Airlines operates the following services (at March 2007):

Domestic scheduled destinations: Anadyr, Barnaul, Blagoveschensk, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Norilsk, Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Samara, Tomsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yakutsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

International scheduled destinations: Ancona, Athens, Baikonur, Baku, Beijing, Bukhara, Constanta, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Dushanbe, Fergana, Ganja, Hannover, Heraklion, Karaganda, Kostanai, Lisbon, Nakhichevan, Pardubice, Rhodes, Rimini, Salzburg, Samarkand, Simferopol, Stuttgart, Tashkent, Thessaloniki, Tivat and Turin

[edit] Fleet

The Domodedovo Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft as of March 2007:

**Domodedovo Airlines Fleet**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers (Business*/Economy)	Notes
Ilyushin Il-96-300	3	248 (18/230) 252 (22/230)
Tupolev Tu-154M	2	145 (8/137) 149 (8/141) 164 (0/164) 166 (0/166)
Ilyushin Il-62M	22	138/174	All 22 Il-62M are currently stored at Domodedovo Airport

In addition to the fleet listed above, Domodedovo Airlines also utilises many aircraft from the KrasAir fleet for its scheduled services, which include Boeing 737, Tupolev Tu-204, Tupolev Tu-214 and Boeing 767-200