ALROSA (airline)
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Founded | 2000 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 9 | ||||||
Destinations | 11 | ||||||
Parent company | ALROSA | ||||||
Headquarters | Mirny, Russia | ||||||
Website | http://www.alrosa.aero |
CJSC "Air Company ALROSA" (Russian: ЗАО «Авиакомпания АЛРОСА», ZAO «Aviakompanija ALROSA»; Yakut: Алроса авиахампанньа, Alrosa aviaxampannya), formerly Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise (Alrosa Air Company Limited) is an airline from Mirny, Russia. Its bases are at Mirny Airport and Polyarny Airport, with a focus city at Lensk Airport. The airline operates scheduled and chartered domestic flights.
History
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise was founded by the Russian mining company ALROSA (Almazy Rossii Sakha). A sister company Alrosa Avia, which was established in 1992[1] and operated passenger charter services in Russia and the CIS out of Moscow Vnukovo Airport.[1] The company's fight certificate was annulled on 21 November 2008. The airline used to operate Tupolev Tu-134 and Tupolev Tu-154.
Destinations
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise serves the following destinations within Russia (as of December 2015):[2]
- Russia
- Irkutsk – Irkutsk Airport
- Krasnodar – Krasnodar International Airport
- Krasnoyarsk – Yemelyanovo Airport
- Lensk – Lensk Airport focus city
- Mirny – Mirny Airport base
- Moscow Domodedovo Airport
- Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport
- Pulkovo International Airport
- Tomsk - Bogashevo Airport
- Udachny – Polyarny Airport base
- Yakutsk – Yakutsk Airport
- Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport
- Ukraine
Fleet
The ALROSA fleet includes the following aircraft as of February 2018:[3]
Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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C | Y | Total | ||||
Boeing 737-700 | 1 | 1 | TBA | Addition to Tu-134 and Tu-154 aircraft to expand business [4] | ||
Boeing 737-800 | 3 | — | 12 | 144 | 166 | |
Ilyushin IL-76TD | 2 | — | Cargo | |||
Irkut MC-21-300 | — | 3[5][6] | Deliveries begin in 2023 | |||
Tupolev Tu-134 | 1 | — | — | |||
Tupolev Tu-154 | 2 | — | — | The last remaining Russian passenger airline that operates the Tu-154 | ||
Total | 9 | 4 |
Accidents and incidents
On 7 September 2010, Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514, operated by Tupolev Tu-154M RA-85684 suffered a complete in-flight electrical failure. A successful emergency landing was made at the closed Izhma Airport but the aircraft overran the overgrown runway and was substantially damaged. All 81 people on board escaped uninjured. The aircraft was on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Polyarny Airport, Udachny to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow.[7][8][9]
References
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 74.
- ^ "Расписание". Мирнинское авиационное предприятие. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- ^ "Our fleet". alrosa.aero. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ "Alrosa airline to replace its Tu-134B and Tu-154M aircraft with Boeing 737-700". ruaviation.com. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ "Russia's Alrosa to lease 3+3 MC-21-300s from IFC". ch-aviation.com. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ "Irkut MC-21 Wins Few Airline Orders at MAKS 2017". ainonline.com. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Alrosa Mirny T154 at Izhma on Sep 7th 2010, loss of electrics and landing on helicopter platform". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
- ^ "Lucky Tu-154 crash landing in Komi". BarentsObserver. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
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External links
Media related to Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise at Wikimedia Commons