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Continental Airways

Not to be confused with Continental Airlines, one of the defunct airlines in the United States.
Continental Airways
IATA ICAO Call sign
PC PVV CONTAIR
Founded1995
Ceased operationsJuly 29, 2011
HubsSheremetyevo International Airport
Fleet size10
Destinations27
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia

Continental Airways was a passenger charter airline based in Moscow, Russia. It was established in 1995 and operated out of Sheremetyevo International Airport.[1]

History

A Continental Ilyushin Il-76TD at Ostend–Bruges International Airport in 1997
A Continental Ilyushin Il-86 parked at Larnaca International Airport in 2004

The airline was founded in 1995 as a cargo airline operating three Tupolev Tu-154s. Its initial base was Vnukovo International Airport. In 2000, it acquired three Ilyushin Il-76TDs to increase the number of routes it flew and add more destinations. In 2004, they acquired an additional four Tu-154s to start their passenger service, which would make its first flight in 2005.

After facing financial problems for two years, selling several Il-76s and suspending most of their destinations, the Russian Air Safety Agency revoked Continental's permission to fly on July 29, 2011. The next day, the airline declared bankruptcy, thus ceasing all its operations.[2]

Destinations

Continental Airways served the following scheduled destinations: Abakan, Anapa, Barnaul, Bratsk, Blagoveshchensk, Cheliabinsk, Gelendzhik, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhni Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Petropavl, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Fleet

A Continental Tupolev Tu-154M at Dubai International Airport in 2005

Continental Airways operated the following aircraft:[3][4]

Continental Airways fleet
Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Notes
Tupolev Tu-154M 10 2004 2007
Ilyushin Il-76TD 5 1997 2011
Ilyushin Il-86 2 1996 2006 Leased from Atlant-Soyuz Airlines

See also

References

  1. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 68.
  2. ^ Continental Airways at airlineupdate.com Archived June 18, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Continental Airways fleet". aerobernie.bplaced.net. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  4. ^ "Continental Airways (RA) - Fleet". Planelogger.com. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
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