Continental Airways

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Continental Airways
IATA ICAO Callsign
PCPVVCONTAIR
Founded1995
Ceased operationsJuly 29, 2011
Hubs Sheremetyevo International Airport
Fleet size10
Destinations27
Headquarters Moscow, 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]

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History

A Continental Ilyushin Il-76TD at Ostend-Bruges International Airport in 1997 Ilyushin Il-76TD, Continental Airways AN0192933.jpg
A Continental Ilyushin Il-76TD at Ostend–Bruges International Airport in 1997
A Continental Ilyushin Il-86 parked at Larnaca International Airport in 2004 Ilyushin Il-86, Continental Airways AN0693745.jpg
A Continental Ilyushin Il-86 parked at Larnaca International Airport in 2004

The airline was founded in 1995 as an exclusive cargo airline, operating 3 Tupolev Tu-154s. Its initial base was the Vnukovo International Airport at [[M. In 2000 it acquired 3 Ilyushin Il-76TDs to increase its routes and expand its destinations. In 2004, they acquired 4 more Tu-154s to start their passenger service, which would make its first flight in 2005.

After having financial problems for two years, selling several of his Il-76s and suspending most of their destinations, on July 29, 2011 the Russian Air Safety Agency revoked his permission to fly, and 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 Tupolev Tu-154M, Continental Airways AN0854922.jpg
A Continental Tupolev Tu-154M at Dubai International Airport in 2005

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

Continental Airways fleet
AircraftTotalIntroducedRetiredNotes
Tupolev Tu-154M 1020042007
Ilyushin Il-76TD 519972011
Ilyushin Il-86 219962006Leased from Atlant-Soyuz Airlines

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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.