Georgian Airways

  • Tbilisi
  • Batumi

Georgian Airways is the largest airline of Georgia, based in Tbilisi and based on the Tbilisi airport.

History

The company was established in September 1993 under the name Airzena and initially concentrated on charter flights. From 1997, scheduled flights were taken to Vienna, Dubai and Tashkent. The company cooperates since then with Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa.

1999 Airzena merged with Air Georgia to Airzena Georgian Airlines and became the largest airline in Georgia. In October 2004 the company was renamed Georgian Airways.

16 October 2011 it was announced that Georgian Airways signed a contract with Boeing for the purchase of two Boeing 737 and has expressed interest in buying the model Boeing 787 for delivery from 2018.

Logo of the company is a white Bordschgali on a red background. On the vertical tail of the aircraft the Bordschgali but was removed in 2004, the flag of Georgia mounted in place on a red background.

Destinations

In 2011, Georgian Airways began flights from Batumi to Tel Aviv, Baku, Moscow, Kharkov, Odessa and Donetsk. In addition, flights from Georgia was introduced to Tehran and in the context of charter flights Antalya is served in summer 2012.

Fleet

The fleet of Georgian Airways is having as of July 2013, seven aircraft:

Trivia

In the Georgian town of Rustavi, a decommissioned and converted Yakovlev Yak-42 is used as the airline kindergarten.

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