Windrose Airlines
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| Founded | 28 October 2003 | ||||||
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| Operating bases | Boryspil International Airport, Dnipropetrovsk International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 11 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine | ||||||
| Key people | Volodymyr Kamenchuk and Yuri Yuvchenko | ||||||
| Website | windrose | ||||||
WINDROSE airlines, legally Wind Rose Aviation Company, is a Ukrainian charter airline based at Boryspil International Airport. Founded on 28 October 2003, the airline's headquarters is in Kyiv; it operates charter flights to destinations in Europe, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.
History
The airline was established in 2003 to provide charter flights to destinations in Europe and the Middle East. It is most probably part of the Privat Group of billionaire Igor Kolomoysky which also owned PrivatBank before it was nationalised,[2] Ukraine International Airlines, as well as formerly owned now-defunct airlines Cimber Sterling, Donbassaero, Dniproavia and AeroSvit.[3]
In 2006, regular flights to Moscow and Kaliningrad in Russia were initiated. In 2008, the company expanded its route network, then sharply reduced it.[4] Since 2008, Windrose Airlines has focused on charter flights. From 2010 to the present day, the airline has been licensed to operate regular flights, should the need arise. The airline was the first to carry out flights basing its aircraft at various airports in Ukraine.
In December 2019, the company rebranded.
In June 2020, the company started domestic flights in Ukraine.
Destinations
Windrose Airlines operates scheduled and charter flights to and from the following destinations:[5]
- Austria
- Croatia
- Egypt
- Finland
- Italy
- Montenegro
- Macedonia
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Dnipro - Dnipropetrovsk International Airport
- Ivano-Frankivsk – Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport
- Kharkiv – Kharkiv International Airport
- Kyiv – Boryspil International Airport
- Lviv – Lviv International Airport
- Mykolaiv - Mykolaiv Airport
- Odessa - Odesa International Airport
Fleet
The Windrose Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of June 2020):[6]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | 1 | 180 | |
| Airbus A321-200 | 5 | — | 218 | |
| ATR 72-600 | 4 | 2 | 78 | |
| Embraer 145 | 3 | — | 48/49 | To be retired in 2021 |
| Hawker 800XP | 2 | — | 8 | |
| Total | 13 | 3 | ||
In the past, Wind Rose Aviation used an Airbus A330-200, 3 McDonell Douglas MD-82 and 1 McDonell Douglas MD-83.
References
- ^ "IATA – Airline and Airport Code Search". iata.org. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ^ "Ukraine's biggest lender PrivatBank nationalised". BBC. 19 December 2016.
- ^ "Ukraine Billionaire To Expand Aviation Empire". 11 June 2011.
- ^ "Wind Rose Aviation".
- ^ "Destinations – WINDROSE". Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Wind-Rose-Aviation
External links
Media related to Wind Rose Aviation at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in English)
