Pulkovo Aviation

Pulkovo Airlines is a Russian airline company based with the International airport Pulkovo. It was creates in 1933 and belonged to AITA since 2001. It belongs to the principal companies Russian.

History

This company bears the name of the city from where it operates: village and observatory of Pulkovo. It was created the June 24th, 1932 at the time of the landing of two planes coming from Moscow on the aerodrome lately built of Chosseïnaïa (in Russian Шоссейная) in the south of Leningrad. The traffic intensified quickly and in 1939 the airport of Chosseïnaïa served 29 destinations. The number of transported passengers was of 6305. Transported freight represented 708 tons, plus 333 tons of mail.

the airport took the name of Pulkovo at the end of the years 1950. Its two terminals are so distant one from the other which one can consider that they are in fact two distinct airports. Pulkovo Airlines carried delivered Aeroflot until the order to change some was given in 1997 to avoid any confusion.

Infos

Code dated

International association of air transport AITA Code: FV
International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO Code: PLK
Name of call: Pulkovo

Alliance

Figures

In 2003 it employed approximately 7000 people. In first half of the year of 2003, it had transported 911.563 passengers, including 515.720 on the internal lines and 395.843 to international (CEI included/understood). Transported freight accounts for 3753,6 tons, including 3138,5 T on the internal lines and 615,1 with international (CEI included/understood) in increase of 34% over the same period of 2002.

Destinations

The company exploits 31 regular destinations through the Russia like 66 regular destinations throughout the world:

http://eng.pulkovo.ru/main/routs chart of the destinations.

Plane crash

the August 22nd, 2006 by flying over the Ukraine: a Tupolev You-154 of Pulkovo Airlines ensuring flight FV 612 between Saint-Pétersbourg and Anapa is crushed close to the Russian border making 170 dead.

Float

The company exploits different types of planes of Russian and American origin:

Boeing 737-500 (117 seats)
Tupolev You-134 (72 to 84 seats)
Tupolev You-154 (160 to 180 seats)
Ilyushin IL-86 (350 seats)

External bonds

http://www.pulkovo.ru/ in Russian.
http://www.pulkovo-cargo.ru site cargo liner.
http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/pulkovo.htm Opignion of the passengers.

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