AiRUnion
Sign in to saveAiRUnion was a Russian airline alliance. It was the first airline alliance ever established in Russia. Member airlines and their affiliates enjoyed a high degree of co-operation in scheduling, ticketing, code sharing, flight transfer operations, frequent flyer program benefits, shared airport lounges, reducing costs, and sharing best practices. The airline and member carriers have since gone bankrupt in 2008. With government sponsorship, the alliance was planned to be resurrected as Rossiya as of 2008. However, this never took place.
Key facts
- Airline alliance.alliance
- AiRUnion
- Airline alliance.logo
- AiRUnion-logo.png
- Airline alliance.size
- 150px
- Airline alliance.launch_date
- 2005
- Airline alliance.ceased
- 2008
- Airline alliance.full_members
- 5
- Airline alliance.airports
- 134
- Airline alliance.countries
- 13
- Airline alliance.annual_passengers
- 4
- Airline alliance.fleet
- 100
- Airline alliance.key_people
- Boris Abramovich (CEO) Alexander Abramovich (President)
- Airline alliance.website
- airunion.ru
- Airline alliance.updated
- February 2007
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Member airlines
- Premium status
- Destinations
- [[Russia]]
- [[Asia]]
- [[Central Asia]]
- [[East Asia]]
- [[Southeast Asia]]
- [[Southwest Asia]]
- [[Europe]]
- References
- External links
AiRUnion was a Russian airline alliance. It was the first airline alliance ever established in Russia. Member airlines and their affiliates enjoyed a high degree of co-operation in scheduling, ticketing, code sharing, flight transfer operations, frequent flyer program benefits, shared airport lounges, reducing costs, and sharing best practices. The airline and member carriers have since gone bankrupt in 2008. With government sponsorship, the alliance was planned to be resurrected as Rossiya as of 2008. However, this never took place.
==History== This alliance was established as AirBridge. In October 2004 Russian airlines KrasAir and Domodedovo Airlines set up a joint management company called AirBridge. KrasAir is owned by the city government of Krasnoyarsk (51%) and AirBridge management (49%) (Boris Abramovich - CEO and his brother, Alexander Abramovich - deputy CEO, no relation to Roman Abramovich). While retaining separate legal identities the airlines were planning to integrate their networks and services, as they are largely complementary. In April 2007 AirBridge had purchased Malév airline from Hungarian government. Boris Abramovich is also a CEO of AirUnion alliance.