Yakutia Airlines
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Yakutia Airlines is an airline
based in Yakutsk
, Russia. It operates domestic passenger services in Russia and within the CIS, as well as charters to destinations in Europe from its hubs at Yakutsk Airport
and Moscow's Vnukovo Airport.
Yakutsk Division and also previously known as Yakutaviatrans. It also operated cargo charters to Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East until it filed for bankruptcy in early 1999. It emerged in 2000 and is controlled by the regional government, Neryungri State Air Enterprise. It merged with Yakutavia in 2002 and changed its name to Yakutia Airlines.
Yakutia Airlines is planned to be the launch customer for the Antonov An-140
aircraft. It is to take three of the twin-turboprop 52-seat aircraft, which is due to make its maiden flight in August 2005, to replace its Antonov An-24
s. Deliveries are due in 2006 and 2007
Airline
An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...
based in Yakutsk
Yakutsk
With a subarctic climate , Yakutsk is the coldest city, though not the coldest inhabited place, on Earth. Average monthly temperatures range from in July to in January. The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast...
, Russia. It operates domestic passenger services in Russia and within the CIS, as well as charters to destinations in Europe from its hubs at Yakutsk Airport
Yakutsk Airport
Yakutsk Airport is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has two runways and a capacity of 700 passengers per hour....
and Moscow's Vnukovo Airport.
History
The airline was founded as Sakhaavia, the former AeroflotAeroflot
OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines , commonly known as Aeroflot , is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation, based on passengers carried per year...
Yakutsk Division and also previously known as Yakutaviatrans. It also operated cargo charters to Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East until it filed for bankruptcy in early 1999. It emerged in 2000 and is controlled by the regional government, Neryungri State Air Enterprise. It merged with Yakutavia in 2002 and changed its name to Yakutia Airlines.
Yakutia Airlines is planned to be the launch customer for the Antonov An-140
Antonov An-140
|-Accidents and Incidents:The An-140 has suffered five major accidents. Two of them had no fatalities, and three had all on board killed.#In December 2002 an aircraft carrying many of Ukraine's top aviation designers and engineers crashed into a mountainside as it was preparing to land in...
aircraft. It is to take three of the twin-turboprop 52-seat aircraft, which is due to make its maiden flight in August 2005, to replace its Antonov An-24
Antonov An-24
The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...
s. Deliveries are due in 2006 and 2007
Destinations
As of May 2011, Yakutia Airlines operates flights to the following:- China
- HarbinHarbinHarbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...
- Harbin Taiping International AirportHarbin Taiping International AirportHarbin Taiping International Airport is an international airport in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.-History:Harbin Taiping Airport, formerly known as Yanjiagang Airport, is located about southwest of the city of Harbin and was constructed in 1979 with further expansion between 1994 and 1997 at a... - QinhuangdaoQinhuangdaoQinhuangdao is a port city in northeastern Hebei province of North China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
- Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan AirportQinhuangdao Shanhaiguan AirportQinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport is a dual-use military and civilian airport serving the city of Qinhuangdao in Hebei Province, China. It is due to be replaced in 2012 by the Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport currently under construction....
- Harbin
- Cyprus
- LarnacaLarnacaLarnaca, is the third largest city on the southern coast of Cyprus after Nicosia and Limassol. It has a population of 72,000 and is the island's second largest commercial port and an important tourist resort...
- Larnaca Airport [seasonal]
- Larnaca
- Czech Republic
- PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
- Ruzyně Airport [seasonal]
- Prague
- Germany
- DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
- Dresden Airport [seasonal] - HanoverHanoverHanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
- Hannover-Langenhagen Airport [seasonal] - MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
- Munich Airport [seasonal]
- Dresden
- Italy
- RiminiRiminiRimini is a medium-sized city of 142,579 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa...
- Federico Fellini Airport [seasonal] - TriesteTriesteTrieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
- Friuli Venezia Giulia AirportFriuli Venezia Giulia Airport-The company:Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia SpA is the Company that has been running the airport since July 1997; its shareholders are the Consorzio per l'Aeroporto Friuli-Venezia Giulia - a consortium of local authorities and municipalities - and the Friuli – Venezia Giulia Region .In addition...
[seasonal]
- Rimini
- Montenegro
- Tivat TivatTivat is a coastal town in southwest Montenegro, located in the Bay of Kotor...
- Tivat AirportTivat AirportTivat Airport is an international airport located from the centre of Tivat, Montenegro in the center of the Boka Kotorska bay....
[seasonal]
- Tivat
- Russia
- AnapaAnapaAnapa is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea near the Sea of Azov. It was originally a seaport for the Natkhuay tribe of the Adyghe people. Population: The town boasts a number of sanatoria and hotels...
- Anapa Airport - Batagai - Batagai Airport
- Belaya Gora - Belaya Gora Airport
- BlagoveshchenskBlagoveshchenskBlagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...
- Ignatyevo AirportIgnatyevo AirportIgnatyevo Airport is a large airport in Russia located 20 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk. It services up to medium-sized airliners and conducts 24-hour flight operations... - BratskBratskBratsk is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir. Population: Although the name sounds like the Russian word for 'brother' , it actually comes from 'bratskiye lyudi', an old name for the Buryats.-History:The first Europeans in the area arrived...
- Bratsk AirportBratsk AirportBratsk Airport is an airport in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia located north of Bratsk. It is a mixed use airfield, providing 32 parking spaces for medium-sized airliners, as well as a large number of branched fighter revetments.... - ChokurdakhChokurdakhChokurdakh is an urban locality and the administrative center of Allaikhovsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population: The Indigirka River flows through the settlement. It is served by Chokurdakh Airport....
- Chokurdakh AirportChokurdakh AirportChokurdakh Airport is an airport in Yakutia, Russia located 1 km north of Chokurdakh. It is a major airfield handling small transport aircraft. Google Earth imagery shows a taxiway network on the north side, a feature not common to Russian civilian airports.... - Deputatskiy - Deputatskiy Airport
- IrkutskIrkutskIrkutsk is a city and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Population: .-History:In 1652, Ivan Pokhabov built a zimovye near the site of Irkutsk for gold trading and for the collection of fur taxes from the Buryats. In 1661, Yakov Pokhabov...
- Irkutsk Airport (secondary hub) - KhabarovskKhabarovskKhabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...
- Khabarovsk Novy AirportKhabarovsk Novy AirportKhabarovsk Novy Airport is located at the eastern part of Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Khabarovsk Novy Airport was the main hub for the Russian airline Dalavia, which was shut down by the government due to large debts... - KhandygaKhandygaKhandyga is an urban locality and the administrative center of Tomponsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Aldan River. Population:...
- Khandyga Airport - KrasnodarKrasnodarKrasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...
- Krasnodar International Airport (secondary hub) - KrasnoyarskKrasnoyarskKrasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...
- Yemelyanovo AirportYemelyanovo AirportYemelyanovo International Airport is a major airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia located 37 km northwest of Krasnoyarsk. It opened for operations in 1980. Presently, Yemelyanovo makes regular cargo and passenger flights of over 40 Russian and overseas carriers... - LenskLenskLensk is a town and the administrative center of Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, approximately west of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. Population: -History:...
- Lensk AirportLensk AirportLensk Airport is a public airport near Lensk in Russia. It works as focus city for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise.-Airlines and destinations:*AeroBratsk *Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise... - MagadanMagadanMagadan is a port town on the Sea of Okhotsk and gateway to the Kolyma region. It is the administrative center of Magadan Oblast , in the Russian Far East. Founded in 1929 on the site of an earlier settlement from the 1920s, it was granted the status of town in 1939...
- Sokol AirportSokol AirportSokol Airport is an airport in Sokol in Magadan Oblast, Russia. The airport is located 70 km north of the Magadan city center. The airport is sometimes confused with Dolinsk-Sokol air base, which was home to the fighters that shot down Korean Air Flight 007.In 1991, the town gained...
(small hub) - Mirniy - Mirny AirportMirny AirportMirny Airport is an airport in Yakutia, Russia, located 4 km east of the mining town of Mirny. It handles medium-sized airliners and supports 24-hour flight operations. Mirny is a designated emergency airfield for the polar route between North America and Asia...
- MomaMomaMoma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
- Moma AirportMoma AirportMoma Airport is an airport in Sakha Republic, Russia, located 1 km west of Honuu. It handles small transport aircraft and contains an extremely spartan layout.... - Moscow - Domodedovo International AirportDomodedovo International AirportMoscow Domodedovo Airport or Domodedovo International Airport is an international airport located in Domodedovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, south-southeast of the centre of Moscow...
- Moscow - Vnukovo International AirportVnukovo International AirportVnukovo International Airport , is a dual runway international airport located southwest from the centre of Moscow, Russia. It is one of three major airports serving Moscow...
(secondary hub) - NeryungriNeryungriNeryungri is the second largest town in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population: Municipally, the town is incorporated as Neryungrinsky Municipal District ....
- Chulman Airport - NovosibirskNovosibirskNovosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...
- Tolmachevo Airport (small hub) - Nyubra - Nyubra Airport
- OlyokminskOlyokminskOlyokminsk is a town and the administrative center of Olyokminsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, southwest of Yakutsk. Population: -History:...
- Olekminsk Airport - Olenek - Olenek Airport
- OmskOmsk-History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes...
- Tsentralny AirportTsentralny Airport-New Fedorova airport:A new airport is built at Fedorova, North-West of Omsk. As of 2010, construction is stalled.-External links:*... - Saint PetersburgSaint PetersburgSaint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
- Pulkovo AirportPulkovo AirportPulkovo Airport is an international airport serving Saint Petersburg, Russia. It consists of two terminals, Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 , which are located about and south of the city centre, respectively. The airport serves as a hub for Rossiya Airlines , and as focus city for Nordavia... - Saskylakh - Saskylakh Airport
- SochiSochiSochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...
- Sochi International Airport (small hub) - SrednekolymskSrednekolymskSrednekolymsk is a town and the administrative center of Srednekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located northeast of Yakutsk on the left bank of the Kolyma River. Population: -History:...
- Srednekolymsk Airport - Suntar - Suntar AirportSuntar AirportSuntar Airport is an airport and possible former air base in Russia located 3 km north of Suntar. It is a fairly extensive airfield. The large 300-meter long tarmac area suggests that it was used for deployments of attack or bomber aircraft into the Arctic regions.There is also a Suntar...
- TiksiTiksiTiksi is an urban locality and the administrative center of Bulunsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, situated on the Arctic Ocean coast. Population: It is one of the principal ports for accessing the Laptev Sea...
- Tiksi AirportTiksi AirportTiksi Aerodrome is located 1 km northeast of Tiksi, Russia and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States . It is used regularly by Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft in military exercises, including one in 1999, in which bombers practice... - Ulan-UdeUlan-UdeUlan-Ude is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence with the Selenga...
- Ulan-Ude Airport (future hub) - Ust-MayaUst-MayaUst-Maya is an urban locality and the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located at the confluence of the Maya and Aldan Rivers, southeast of Yakutsk. Population:...
- Ust Maya Airport - Ust-NeraUst-NeraUst-Nera is an urban locality and the administrative center of Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located at the confluence of the Nera and the Indigirka Rivers. Population:...
- Ust Nera Airport - Verkhnevilyuisk - Verkhnevilyuysky Airport
- VilyuyskVilyuyskVilyuysk is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about from Yakutsk on the Vilyuy River...
- Vilyuisk AirportVilyuisk AirportVilyuisk Airport is an airport in Russia located 3 km east of Vilyuysk. It accommodates small transport aircraft.... - VladivostokVladivostokThe city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 km long and approximately 12 km wide.The highest point is Mount Kholodilnik, the height of which is 257 m...
- Vladivostok International AirportVladivostok International AirportVladivostok International Airport is located near Artyom, Primorsky Krai, Russia roughly an hour's drive north of center of the city of Vladivostok. It was formerly known as Knevichi Airport, named after village Knevichi... - YakutskYakutskWith a subarctic climate , Yakutsk is the coldest city, though not the coldest inhabited place, on Earth. Average monthly temperatures range from in July to in January. The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast...
- Yakutsk AirportYakutsk AirportYakutsk Airport is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has two runways and a capacity of 700 passengers per hour....
(main hub) - Zhigansk - Zhigansk Airport
- ZyryankaZyryankaZyryanka is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.Urban localities*Zyryanka, Sakha Republic, a settlement in Verkhnekolymsky District of the Sakha RepublicRural localities...
- Zyryanka West AirportZyryanka West AirportZyryanka West Airport is an airport in Russia located 8 km west of Zyryanka.It is used rarely, when main Zyryanka airport cannot be used....
- Anapa
- South Korea
- SeoulSeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
- Incheon International AirportIncheon International AirportIncheon International Airport is the largest airport in South Korea, the primary airport serving the Seoul national capital area, and one of the largest and busiest airports in the world...
- Seoul
- Spain
- BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
- Barcelona Airport [seasonal] - Palma - Palma de Mallorca AirportPalma de Mallorca AirportPalma de Mallorca Airport is an airport located east of Palma, Majorca, adjacent to the village of Can Pastilla. Also known as Son Sant Joan Airport or Aeroport de Son Sant Joan, it is the third largest airport in Spain, after Madrid's Barajas Airport and Barcelona Airport...
[seasonal]
- Barcelona
- Tajkistan
- DushanbeDushanbe-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...
- Dushanbe AirportDushanbe AirportDushanbe International Airport is an airport located in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. Work has begun on upgrading facilities at the airport. Funds made available from unnamed sources will finance enhancements to the runway and apron and the upgrade of the terminal buildings to handle... - Khudzhand - Khudzhand Airport
- Dushanbe
- Uzbekistan
- FerganaFerganaFergana is a city , the capital of Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley in southern Central Asia, cutting across the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan...
- Fergana Airport - TashkentTashkentTashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan and of the Tashkent Province. The officially registered population of the city in 2008 was about 2.2 million. Unofficial sources estimate the actual population may be as much as 4.45 million.-Early Islamic History:...
- Tashkent International Airport
- Fergana
Code share
Yakutia Airlines code share with the following:- BuralBuralBural is an airline based in Ulan-Ude, Russia. It operates trunk and regional passenger services. Its main base is Ulan-Ude Airport.- Fleet :The Bural fleet includes the following aircraft :*5 Antonov An-2*4 Antonov An-24*6 Mil Mi-8...
- S7 AirlinesS7 AirlinesOJSC Siberia Airlines , operating as S7 Airlines, is an airline headquartered in Ob, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, with offices in Moscow. S7 Airlines has been Russia's fastest-growing airline and recently passed Aeroflot as Russia's largest domestic airline.S7 has operated scheduled passenger...
(OneworldOneworldOneworld , branded as oneworld, is one of the world's three largest global airline alliances with its central management team, oneworld Management Company, based in New York City, New York, USA. Oneworld was founded in 1999 by American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific...
) - Ural AirlinesUral AirlinesUral Airlines is an airline based in Yekaterinburg, Russia, operating scheduled and chartered domestic and international flights out of Koltsovo International Airport...
Fleet
The Yakutia Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at June 2011)| Aircraft | Total | Orders | Seats | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | Comfort | Economy | Total | ||||
| Antonov An-24RV | 11 | 0 | — | — | 48 | 48 | |
| Antonov An-26 Antonov An-26 The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the USSR from 12 March 1968.-Development:... |
2 | 0 | — | — | 48 | 48 | |
| Antonov An-140-100 Antonov An-140 |-Accidents and Incidents:The An-140 has suffered five major accidents. Two of them had no fatalities, and three had all on board killed.#In December 2002 an aircraft carrying many of Ukraine's top aviation designers and engineers crashed into a mountainside as it was preparing to land in... |
5 | 0 | — | — | 52 | 52 | |
| Boeing 737-700 | 4 | 1 | 8 | — | 118 | 126 | |
| Boeing 737-800 | 3 | 0 | 8 | — | 162 | 170 | |
| Boeing 757-200 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 24 | 155 | 192 | |
| Boeing 757-200-APF | 1 | 0 | freighter | ||||
| Sukhoi Superjet 100 Sukhoi Superjet 100 The Sukhoi Superjet 100 is a modern, fly-by-wire regional jet in the 75- to 95-seat category. With development starting in 2000, the plane was designed by the civil aircraft division of the Russian aerospace company Sukhoi in co-operation with Western partners... |
0 | 4 | TBA | ||||
| Tupolev Tu-154M | 6 | 0 | undisclosed | 156 | |||
Accidents and incidents
- On 4 February 2010, Flight 425, operated by Antonov An-24Antonov An-24The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...
RA-47360 suffered an engine failure on take-off from Yakutsk AirportYakutsk AirportYakutsk Airport is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has two runways and a capacity of 700 passengers per hour....
for Olekminsk Airport. During the subsequent landing, the nose and port main undercarriage were retracted, causing substantial damage to the aircraft.