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Metrojet (Russian airline)

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7K
  
KGL

Ceased operations
  
2015

Founded
  
1993

KGL
  
KOGALYM

Destinations
  
16

Fleet size
  
6

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Secondary hubs
  
Kogalym International Airport Pulkovo Airport

Focus cities
  
Vladivostok International Airport

Hubs
  
Pulkovo International Airport, Domodedovo International Airport, Kogalym International Airport

Kogalymavia (Russian: ООО «Авиакомпания Когалымавиа»), DBA Metrojet (IATA: 7K, ICAO: KGL), was a Russian airline based in Kogalym, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Its home base was at Kogalym International Airport, with the main hub at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow. It suspended all operations in December 2015.

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History

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 as part of their then newly established joint-venture with TUI Russia & CIS, a subsidiary of German tourism company TUI Travel. Up until August 2014, when the joint-venture was broken up, Metrojet operated on behalf of TUI and has flown independently since.

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. It filed for bankruptcy in March 2016.

Destinations

Metrojet operated the following routes:

from Moscow-Domodedovo
  •  Austria (Salzburg)
  •  Azerbaijan (Qabala)
  •  Bulgaria (Burgas, Varna)
  •  Croatia (Pula)
  •  Czech Republic (Pardubice)
  •  Egypt (Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba)
  •  Spain (Barcelona, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca)
  •  France (Grenoble)
  •  Greece (Rhodes, Heraklion)
  •  Italy (Treviso, Rimini)
  •  Montenegro (Tivat)
  •  Turkey (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman)
    • from Vladivostok
  •  Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo)
  •  South Korea (Seoul)
  •  Vietnam (Da Nang)

    • Fleet

    The Kogalymavia fleet included the following aircraft, as of August 2016:

    Retired fleet

    Metrojet and its predecessor Kolavia also operated the following aircraft in the past:

  • 2 Airbus A320-200
  • Antonov An-24
  • Tupolev Tu-134
  • Tupolev Tu-154B
  • Tupolev Tu-154M
  • 5 Airbus A321-200 (4 sold, one written off)

    • 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.
  • 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. 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, an Airbus A321-200.

    • References

    Metrojet (Russian airline) Wikipedia
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