Rossiya (airline)
- Saint Petersburg- Pulkovo
- Vnukovo
Rossiya (English: State Transport Company Rossiya, Russian Государственная транспортная компания « Россия » ) is a Russian state-owned airline based in Saint Petersburg and based on its airport Pulkovo. She performs both public scheduled flights as well as flights for the Russian government.
- 3.1 GTK Rossiya
- 3.2 SLO Rossiya
History
Early years
In 1992, the national airline Aeroflot was divided into independent regional airlines. In this course from one of the stationed at Moscow Vnukovo Airport Aeroflot divisions arose the new airline Rossiya. Mainly presented Rossiya Russian government chartered aircraft and this aircraft also as part of VIP charter. All VIP jets of the Russian president, two Ilyushin Il -96- 300, a Ilyushin Il- 62, Tupolev Tu -154 and Yakovlev Yak -40 were part of the air fleet of Rossiya. She also had a few Russian domestic flight connections. The fleet but was operated by Pulkovo Airlines based in Saint Petersburg surgically.
Merger with Pulkovo Airlines
Since 2003, a merger of the company with the Russian airline Pulkovo Airlines was sought. Finally, the merger on October 29, 2006 was announced. The Director General of the old Rossiya, Sergei Michaltschenko, now also heads the merged entity. The company's headquarters was moved to St Petersburg Pulkovo Airport.
In the course of the merger, Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise was in their two areas, split the operation of the airport Pulkovo and operation of the airline Pulkovo Airlines. While the city of Saint Petersburg took over the airport and as OAO Aeroport Pulkovo ( German: Airport Pulkovo AG) positioned, the flight operations in the national airline Rossiya was introduced. Thus, the Russian state controlled the two largest airlines in the country, Aeroflot and Rossiya. On the other hand, the city of Saint Petersburg has now greater opportunities to develop the Pulkovo airport, after all, the third largest airport in Russia.
Despite the merger, the planes of the old Pulkovo fleet will still continue to bear the lettering and Pulkovo (one year is given approximately ) in the course of time repainted. The flight numbers of international Pulkovo connections continue to be reported with FV to continue to use the slots at foreign airports.
Development since 2007
On December 1, Rossiya announces in a press release that the air route in Saint Petersburg from now - was agreed with Moscow Aeroflot code sharing. Since 1 January 2007, the Germany - connections of the two airlines are marketed via code sharing. Similarly, the Company announced in a press release that the Company from June decides to partner with Finnair. Among other things, code-sharing on the flights between Helsinki and St. Petersburg was arranged. In addition, on June 1, 2007 was code-sharing with Austrian Airlines for the connections between Vienna - decided Krasnodar - Saint Petersburg and Vienna.
According to the press release of 22 January 2007 Rossiya has carried 3,011,073 passengers in 2006 (including the predecessor company Pulkovo ), of which 2,658,742 passengers on scheduled flights.
In March 2007, four former Rossiya leased Airbus A319 -100 of the North American Northwest Airlines with registration on the Bermuda Islands ( VP-B. ..). These four A319s to replace old Tupolev TU five - 154B2, which were scrapped by May 2007. The first Airbus A319 was delivered on 10 May 2007 in the colors of the Rossiya to the Company and stationed on the St. Petersburg -Pulkovo airport. In 2007, we also signed a contract for the supply of three former Boeing 767 -300ER of Skymark Airlines. The first machine is in use from May 2008. In March 2008, Rossiya also decided to lease several more A319 from the holdings of Frontier Airlines.
The old aircraft from the Tupolev Tu-134 should be replaced in the spring of 2007 by four leased Bombardier CRJ200. Originally nor Brazilian before the merger Pulkovo Embraer 170 had desired, they should be allowed with the end of 2006 but only in a year in Russia. In June 2007, the Chairman Gennady Boldyrev announced finally that none of the two types will join Rossiya.
End of June 2007 it was announced that Rossiya were withdrawn in addition to ten other Russian airlines of the Russian flight authority for permission to flight in the European Union. Thus, the flight authority wants to forestall the situation that Russian companies are included in the black list of the EU, which prohibit the landing in the EU. Rossiya responded by saying that there must be a misunderstanding here.
The competent authorities of the Russian Federation have decided that for the operations of these carriers only certain aircraft may be used in the community. Here is the Rossiya (formerly Pulkovo ) was only prohibited conduct with the aircraft IL- 62M (RA- 86467 ) flying into the Community. With all the other aircraft they can fly without restrictions Meanwhile, there is also this machine has been authorized to fly in the EU.
In February 2010 it was announced that the Rossiya should merge with Aeroflot and other Russian five smaller regional airlines under the umbrella brand Aeroflot within two years, but this was not implemented in this period.
Destinations
Rossiya served alongside the government flights on scheduled services in addition to numerous destinations within Russia, including Moscow, Omsk and Samara also destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia such as Baku, Beijing, Heraklion, Copenhagen and Istanbul. German -speaking destinations are Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin and Salzburg and Vienna.
Fleet
As of July 2013, the fleet of Rossiya consists of 92 aircraft, of which, 34 are assigned to the aircraft GTK Rossiya for public scheduled passenger flights and 58 of the SLO Rossiya, the government division.
GTK Rossiya
SLO Rossiya
- 02 Airbus A319CJ
- 02 Antonov An-148
- 03 Ilyushin Il -62
- 07 Ilyushin Il -96
- 04 Yakovlev Yak -40
- 14 Mil Mi -8 ( helicopter )
- 07 Tupolev Tu-134
- 07 Tupolev Tu -154 (2 operated for the Russian secret service FSB)
- 12 Tupolev Tu -214