Metrojet (Russian airline)

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Kogalymavia
Авиакомпания Когалымавиа
d.b.a. Metrojet
250px
IATA ICAO Callsign
7K[1] KGL[1] KOGALYM[1]
Founded
  • 1993 (as Kolavia)
  • 2012 (rebranded to Metrojet)
Ceased operations December 2015
Hubs Domodedovo International Airport[1]
Secondary hubs
Focus cities Vladivostok International Airport[1]
Fleet size 6
Destinations 16
Parent company TUI Travel (till August 2014)
Key people Nikolai Nikolayevich Zolnikov, General Director[1]
Website metrojet.ru

Kogalymavia (Russian: ООО «Авиакомпания Когалымавиа»), DBA Metrojet (IATA: 7K, ICAO: KGL), is a Russian airline based in Kogalym, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.[2] Its home base is Kogalym International Airport, with the main hub being Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.[3] It suspended all operations in December 2015 until summer 2016.[4]

History

File:Metrojet-logo.png
Former Metrojet logo

Kogalymavia started operations in May 1993. Since 2005 the airline flew mostly international charter services to leisure destinations under the brand name Kolavia.

In May 2012, Kogalymavia changed its marketing branding from Kolavia to Metrojet[5][6] as part of their then newly established joint-venture with TUI Russia & CIS, a subsidiary of German tourism company TUI Travel.[7] Up until August 2014, when the joint-venture was broken up,[7] Metrojet operated on behalf of TUI[8][9] and has flown independently since.

On 31 October 2015, Metrojet charter flight 7K9268 crashed in Egypt, after being bombed, killing all 224 people on board.

On 5 December 2015, Metrojet suspended all remaining operations after a severe decrease of passengers due to the aforementioned incident and the security situation at its primary leisure destinations in Egypt. It announced to review all operations and might resume services in summer 2016.[4]

Destinations

Metrojet Airbus A321-200 in its former TUI Travel livery
A former Kolavia Tupolev Tu-154B

Metrojet operated the following routes:[citation needed]

from Moscow-Domodedovo
from Vladivostok

Fleet

A Kogalymavia Airbus A321-200, operating as MetroJet seen on approach to Kansai International Airport in October 2013. Two years later, this airframe was destroyed in the crash of Flight 9268.

The Kogalymavia fleet included the following aircraft, as of 1 November 2015:[11]

Kogalymavia fleet
Aircraft Total Orders Notes
Airbus A321-200 4 20 operated as Metrojet
Bombardier Challenger 850 2 — operated for VIP-charters
Total 6 20

Retired fleet

Metrojet and its predecessor Kolavia also operated the following aircraft in the past:[citation needed]

Accidents and incidents

  • 1 January 2011: Flight 348. A fire broke out on one of the engines of a Tupolev Tu-154B-2, tail number RA-85588, before taxiing. The aircraft had 116 passengers and 8 crew on board, and was due to operate a flight, a Surgut–Moscow service. It was evacuated seconds before the flames engulfed the fuselage. Three people were killed and 43 passengers injured.[13][14][15]
  • 31 October 2015: Flight 9268, an Airbus A321-200 charter flight with 224 people on board, en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg, crashed on the Sinai Peninsula. All 217 passengers and seven crew members perished.[16] The reasons for this crash are still under investigation. This air crash was named as the biggest and the most fatal in the history of the airline, Russian and Soviet aviation; and the Airbus A320 Family's history.
  • 5 November 2015: Flight 9267 operated for S7 Airlines suffered a collapse of its nose gear following an incident during pushback at Saint Petersburg Airport in Russia. The flight was operated by EI-ETL.[17]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 29 January 2008, p. 244
  2. ↑ "Адреса и телефоны авиакомпании KOLAVIA." Kolavia. Retrieved on 18 July 2010. "Юридический и почтовый адрес: 628486, РФ, Тюменская область, г.Когалым, ул.Авиаторов"
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 aerotelegraph.com - "Grounding: Russian Metrojet suspends all flights" (German) 5 December 2015
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ [1][dead link]
  9. ↑ [2] Archived 28 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ ch-aviation.com – Kolavia retrieved 1 November 2015
  12. ↑ airfleets.net - Metrojet Russia retrieved 1 November 2015
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ http://www.airlive.net/2015/11/breaking-metrojet-a321-front-wheel.html

External links

Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons

Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Metrojet_(Russian_airline)&oldid=267257"