AVE.com was a Kyrgyz-UAE airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with its base at Sharjah International Airport, offered charter flights and aircraft lease services.[2] AVE.com was established in 2005 by the renaming of Phoenix Aviation[1][3]
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| Founded | 1996 (Phoenix Aviation) October 2005 (as AVE.com) | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | December 30, 2012 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Sharjah International Airport | ||||||
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| Headquarters | Sharjah, United Arab Emirates | ||||||
| Employees | 230 (2007) | ||||||
| Website | flyave | ||||||
AVE.com was owned by Evgeny Khaprov and Vladimir Goncharov and (as of 2007) had 230 employees.[2]
History edit
Phoenix Aviation was established and started operations in 1996. It was rebranded as AVE.com in October 2005.[3]
The airline was blacklisted by the Government of the United Kingdom due to poor safety standards, and was added to a newly created European Union blacklist in 2006.
Services edit
As Phoenix Aviation, the company operated the following services in January 2005:
- Domestic scheduled services: Bishkek and Osh.
- International scheduled services: Jinnah International Airport, Karachi.
Fleet edit
AVE.com operated the following aircraft:[4][5]
| Aircraft | Total | Introduced | Retired | Notes |
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| Boeing 737-200 | 20 | 2002 | 2011 | |
| Boeing 737-300 | 3 | 2005 | 2012 | |
| Boeing 767-200ER | 1 | 2004 | 2006 | Later written off as Dynamic Airways Flight 405 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b AVE.com entry at airlineupdate.com Archived January 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 81.
- ^ a b Flight International 27 March 2007
- ^ "Phoenix Aviation Fleet Details and History". Planespotters.net. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "AVE.com Fleet Details and History". Planespotters.net. 24 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
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