Tuva Airlines Explained

Airline:	Tuva Airlines
Destinations:	7
Iata:	-
Callsign:	AIR TYVA
Ceased:	2016
Headquarters:	Kyzyl, Russia
Hubs:	Kyzyl Airport

Tuva Airlines (Russian: ОАО «Тувинские Авиалинии»|translit=OAO «Tuvinskije Avialinii») was an airline based in Kyzyl, in the Russian federal republic of Tuva.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1932 as a division of Aeroflot. It was privatised in 1992, being owned by the state (51%) and the airline's employees (49%).

In 1994, the airline's director general Anatoly Martshekhi was found dead in his bath, in an apparent organised crime killing.^[1]

Tuva Airlines went bankrupt in 2016.

Destinations

Tuva Airlines operated the following services as of January 2012:

• Chamsara - Chamsara Airport
  • • Irkutsk - Irkutsk Airport Krasnoyarsk - Yemelyanovo Airport Kyzyl - Kyzyl Airport base
• Novosibirsk - Tolmachevo Airport
• Todzha - Todzha Airport
  • Ulan-Ude - Ulan-Ude Airport Yrban - Yrban Airport

Terminated Routes

• Moscow -
  • Sheremetyevo International Airport since 1995
  • Domodedovo International Airport since 2000
• St. Petersburg - Pulkovo Airport since 2000

Fleet

• Antonov An-2
• Yakovlev Yak-40
• Sukhoi Superjet 100 (10 aircraft since 2016)^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mob Claims Another Russian. Will . Englund. articles.baltimoresun.com . 18 October 1994 . 19 February 2012.
2. News: Лучший день для SSJ 100. 26 August 2015. ato.ru. 26 August 2015.