AeroSvit Airlines private stock company (), operating as AeroSvit — Ukrainian Airlines / АероСвіт, was a Ukrainian private airline. Its head office was on the grounds of the Boryspil International Airport in Boryspil.

Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines was a member of IATA and an IATA IOSA certified carrier. Its main base was Boryspil Airport. The airline was established in March 1994 and started operations in April of the same year with international flights from Kyiv in co-operation with Air Ukraine. , Aerosvit was the largest carrier in Ukraine. Later that year, flights to Toronto and Delhi began. In this year, the airline also carried its second millionth passenger. Soon after, the company received the JAR-145 certification for performing in house maintenance works in accordance with the European Joint Aviation Authorities' requirements. With the onset of 2004, Aerosvit increased the number of weekly flights it operated to Bangkok to three and an additional Boeing 737-300 was added to the fleet. Route expansion continued as before, and over the course of the year the number of Aerosvit-operated domestic flights across Ukraine expanded to eleven destinations. However, expansion did not just take place on the domestic market, as Aerosvit introduced new routes from its base in Kyiv, to Beijing, Baku, Chisinau, Cairo, and St. Petersburg. Finally, in 2004, Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines became the official air carrier of the National Olympic team of Ukraine for the XXVIII Olympic Summer Games held in 2004 in Athens.

Aerosvit's ninth Boeing 737 mid-haul aircraft started operating in 2005, with a tenth being added to the fleet soon after. In the same year, e-ticketing was launched on the route New York-Kyiv and Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines and Azerbaijan Airlines started code-sharing on the Kyiv-Baku route.

In 2006, the carrier became the worldwide in passing the IATA Operational Safety Audit. and Riga. including Bucharest and Yerevan, and signed a codeshare agreement with Hainan Airlines that covered operations on the Kyiv–Beijing route. , all Boeing 737s in the fleet were being returned to the lessors.

On 29 December 2012, Aerosvit filed for bankruptcy but intended to restructure and continue to operate.

  • Hamburg Airways

Fleet

, Aerosvit Airlines had no active aircraft in its fleet. The airline operated the following aircraft throughout its history:

See also

  • List of airlines of Ukraine
  • Transport in Ukraine

References

  • Official website at archive.org