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<tr><td colspan="3" style="text-align: center; background-color: #FFFFFF;">Image:Aerosvitlogo.gif</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Hubs</th><td>Boryspil State International Airport</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2">Parent company</th><td>Aerotur</td></tr>

Aerosvit Airlines
IATA VV	ICAO AEW	Callsign AEROSVIT
Founded		25 March 1994
Fleet size		12 (January 2006)
Destinations		34 (23 Countries)
Headquarters		Kyiv, Ukraine
Key people
Website: http://www.aerosvit.com/

Aerosvit Airlines (Ukrainian: Авіакомпанія АероСвіт, Aviakompaniya AeroSvit; Russian: Авиакомпания АэроСвит, Aviakompaniya AyeroSvit) is an airline based in Kiev, Ukraine. It operates scheduled services from Ukraine to 14 destinations in Russia, Poland, Serbia, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary and other countries. It also operates some international charter flights and has a domestic network. Its main base is Boryspil State International Airport (KBP), Kiev.

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Accidents & Incidents 4 Fleet 5 See also 6 External links 7 References

[edit] History

The airline was established on 25 March 1994 and started operations in April 1994 with flights from Kiev to Tel Aviv, Odessa, Thessaloniki, Athens and Larnaca in co-operation with Air Ukraine. In October 1994 it started to dry-lease Boeing 737-200 aircraft as the network expanded to include flights to Moscow.

Aerosvit Airlines is owned by Aerotur-Agency for Air Communications and Tourism (Ukraine) (40%), Gilward Investments (Netherlands) (38%) and State Property Fund of the Ukraine (22%).

First passenger European Airline to use Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.

[edit] Services

Aerosvit Airlines operates the following services (July 2006):

• Domestic:
  • Chernivtsi
  • Dnipropetrovsk
  • Donetsk
  • Ivano-Frankivsk
  • Kharkiv
  • Kiev
  • Luhansk
  • Lviv
  • Odessa
  • Simferopol
  • Zaporizhzhia

• International:
  • Ashgabat
  • Athens
  • Baku
  • Bangkok
  • Beijing
  • Belgrade
  • Birmingham
  • Budapest
  • Cairo
  • Delhi
  • Dubai
  • Hamburg
  • Istanbul
  • Karachi Starts 1st September (codeshare with Pakistan International Airlines)
  • Larnaca
  • Moscow
  • Naples
  • New York
  • Prague
  • Sofia
  • St Petersburg
  • Stockholm
  • Tel Aviv
  • Toronto
  • Warsaw

[edit] Accidents & Incidents

In December 1997 Aerosvit Flight 241 crashed near Thessaloniki, killing all 70 people aboard.

[edit] Fleet

The Aerosvit Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2006) <ref>Flight International, 3-9 October 2006</ref>:

• 1 Boeing 737-200
• 2 Boeing 737-300
• 6 Boeing 737-400
• 2 Boeing 737-500
• 2 Boeing 767-300ER

[edit] See also

• Ukraine International Airlines

[edit] External links

• Aerosvit Airlines

[edit] References

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