Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise
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Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise is an airline based in St Petersburg, Russia It also operates the Pulkovo Airport and is 100% state owned.
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History
The history of Pulkovo, named after the area where it is located along with the village of Pulkovo and famous Pulkovo Observatory (founded in 1839), began 24 June 1932 with the landing of two aircraft from Moscow at the newly-constructed Shosseynaya Airport south of Leningrad.
Air travel expanded rapidly, and in 1939 Shosseynaya Airport operated 29 routes, carrying 6,305 passengers, 708 tons of cargo, and over 333 tons of mail.
The airport became known as "Pulkovo" in the late 1950s. The airport complex consists of two separate terminals which are so far away from each other than can they can be classified as separate airports.
Pulkovo Airlines used Aeroflot livery until ordered to change it in 1997 so to avoid confusion. Pulkovo Airlines joined IATA in June 2000.
As of 2003, it employs about 7,000 workers. In the first half of 2003, it carried 911,563 passengers, of 515,720 were domestic and 395,843 international and CIS flights. It also carried 3,753.6 tons of cargo, of which 3,138.5 was domestic and 615.1 international and CIS (this last was an increase of 34% over the same period in 2002).
It is scheduled to merge with Rossiya Airlines in 2005. The merged entity will retain the Rossiya brand.
Services
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise operates the following services (at January 2005):
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Adler/Sochi, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Bratsk, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhnevartovsk, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Petropavlovsk-Kamchats, Rostov, Samara, St Petersburg, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa and Vladivostok.
- International scheduled services: Almaty, Amsterdam, Baku, Beijing, Berlin, Bishkek, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dushanbe, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Istanbul, Karaganda, Kiev, London, Munich, Paris, Prague, Salzburg, Samarkand, Sofia, Stockholm, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv and Yerevan.
Fleet
The Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2005):
- 7 Ilyushin Il-86
- 11 Tupolev Tu-134A
- 7 Tupolev Tu-154B-2
- 19 Tupolev Tu-154M
External links
- Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise (http://www.pulkovo.ru/)
- Pulkovo Passenger Opinions (http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/pulkovo.htm)fr:Pulkovo Aviation
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