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Founded | 1996 (Phoenix Aviation) October 2005 (as AVE.com) | ||||||
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Ceased operations | December 30, 2012 | ||||||
Operating bases | Sharjah International Airport | ||||||
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Headquarters | Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | ||||||
Employees | 230 (2007) | ||||||
Website | flyave |
AVE.com was a Kyrgyz-UAE airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with its base at Sharjah International Airport, offered charter flights and aircraft lease services. [2] AVE.com was established in 2005 by the renaming of Phoenix Aviation [1] [3]
AVE.com was owned by Evgeny Khaprov and Vladimir Goncharov and (as of 2007) had 230 employees. [2]
Phoenix Aviation was established and started operations in 1996. It was rebranded as AVE.com in October 2005. [4]
The airline was blacklisted by the Government of the United Kingdom due to poor safety standards, and was added to a newly created European Union blacklist in 2006.
As Phoenix Aviation, the company operated the following services in January 2005:
AVE.com operated the following aircraft: [5] [6]
Aircraft | Total | Introduced | Retired | Notes |
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Boeing 737-200 | 20 | 2002 | 2011 | |
Boeing 737-300 | 3 | 2005 | 2012 | |
Boeing 767-200ER | 1 | 2004 | 2006 | Later written off as Dynamic Airways Flight 405 |
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