Moscow Airways
Moscow Airways was a Russian airline that ceased operations in 1996. The international company led by predominantly tourist charter flights and freight transport.
History
The state-owned airline Aeroflot was restructured after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and its regional departments outsourced as an independent company. This should operate the national scheduled flights of Aeroflot and to offer besides charter flights. The breakdown numerous new airlines, among others, Moscow Airways, whose initial fleet consisted mainly of aircraft Ilyushin Il- 62, which were adopted by the Aeroflot arisen.
As of mid-1993 was renamed Moscow Airways under its own name. The company carried out predominantly tourist charter flights on behalf of the tour operator MVL International Travel Agency, which also had holdings in the Company. The planned construction of a regional air network, which should be operated with aircraft of type Beriev Be -32, could not be realized. Instead, the company in addition to the charter services an Ilyushin Il -76 on international cargo flights, which were carried out increased by the acquisition of additional cargo aircraft of type Antonov An -12 and Antonov An-32 from 1994.
Because of security concerns, the Russian Aviation Authority the company withdrew the transport license in September 1995. Previously, the company had rented a cargo plane crew along with the Antonov An- 32B to the airline Scribe airlift and transferred to Zaire. There, the aircraft was still used without approval. The machine crashed on 8 January 1996 at the start and caused the plane crash of Kinshasa, where at least 299 people died.
Used aircraft
- Antonov An- 12BP
- Antonov An- 32B
- Beriev Be -32K ( One aircraft was painted in the colors of the company and shown on air shows, but not covered by this ).
- Ilyushin Il- 62M
- Ilyushin Il- 76TD
- Ilyushin Il -86
- Tupolev Tu- 154B -2