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MOV

Hubs
  
Domodedovo Airport

Website
  
www.vim-avia.com

Headquarters
  
Moscow, Russia

Destinations
  
15

MOV
  
MOV AIR

Subsidiaries
  
Aerobratsk

Founded
  
2000

Fleet size
  
14

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Key people
  
Alexander Kochnev (General Director), Rashid Maviyaievich Mursekaev (President), Svetlana Anatolievna Mursekaeva (Owner)

Hub
  
Domodedovo International Airport

All white boeing 777 200er of vim airlines very smooth landing at st petersburg airport


VIM Avia, commonly known as VIM Airlines, is an airline based in Moscow, Russia, operating international scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights out of Moscow Domodedovo Airport, as well as offering aircraft wet lease.

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Vim airlines boeing 777 200er neat landing in late autumn colors


History

VIM Airlines was established by Viktor Ivanovich Merkulov and started operations in 2000, with a soviet-built aircraft Ilyushin Il-62M. At the end of 2004, the company acquired Chitaavia and Aerobratsk, followed by Russian Sky Airlines in 2005.

Destinations

VIM Airlines served the following scheduled destinations (as of June 2014). Most of them are served directly from Moscow Domodedovo Airport, except marked:

Central Asia

 Kyrgyzstan
  • Osh – Osh Airport
  •  Tajikistan
  • Dushanbe – Dushanbe International Airport
  • Khujand – Khujand Airport
  • Qurghonteppa – Qurghonteppa International Airport
  •  Uzbekistan
  • Andizhan – Andizhan Airport
  • Fergana – Fergana International Airport
  • Namangan – Namangan Airport
  • Qarshi – Karshi Airport
  • Samarkand – Samarkand International Airport
  • Termez – Termez Airport
  • Eastern Asia

     China
  • Guangzhou – Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport seasonal charter
  • Southern Asia

     India
  • Goa – Goa International Airport
  • Western Asia

     Armenia
  • Gyumri – Shirak Airport
  • Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport
  •  Azerbaijan
  • Ganja – Ganja International Airport
  • Lankaran – Lankaran International Airport
  • Qabala – Qabala Airport
  •  Israel
  • Eilat – Ovda Airport
  •  United Arab Emirates
  • Dubai – Al Maktoum International Airport [charter]
  • Europe

     Belgium
  • Liege – Liege Airport (starts in April 2017)
  •  Greece
  • Thessaloniki – Macedonia Airport
  •  Italy
  • Catania – Catania-Fontanarossa Airport
  • Naples – Naples Airport
  • Rimini – Federico Fellini Airport
  •  Republic of Moldova
  • Chisinau – Chişinău International Airport
  •  Russia
  • Anadyr – Ugolny Airport
  • Blagoveshchensk – Ignatyevo Airport
  • Bratsk – Bratsk Airport
  • Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport
  • Gelendzhik – Gelendzhik Airport
  • Komsomolsk-on-Amur – Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport
  • Krasnodar – Krasnodar International Airport
  • Magadan – Sokol Airport
  • Makhachkala – Uytash Airport
  • Moscow – Domodedovo International Airport – base
  • Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo International Airport
  • Sochi – Sochi International Airport
  • Stavropol – Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport
  •  Spain
  • Alicante – Alicante-Elche Airport
  • Barcelona – El Prat Airport
  • Málaga – Málaga Airport
  • Tenerife – Tenerife South Airport
  • Gran Canaria – Gran Canaria Airport
  •   Switzerland
  • Basel – EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg
  •  France
  • Chambéry – Chambéry Airport
  • Fleet

    As of June 2016, the VIM Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:

    Retired Fleet

  • Ilyushin Il-62M (first aircraft in the airline's fleet)
  • Tupolev Tu-154 (leased from Aviaprad)
  • Yakovlev Yak-42 (leased from KrasAir)
  • Source: planespotters.net

    References

    VIM Airlines Wikipedia