Aeroflot destinations

An Aeroflot Airbus A330-300 approaches Sheremetyevo International Airport in 2012.

The history of Aeroflot can be traced back to 9 February 1923 (1923-02-09), when the Council of Labour and Defence passed a resolution to create the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, amalgamating all pioneer airlines to form Dobrolet on 25 March 1923 (1923-03-25).^[1][2]:119 Operations started on 15 July 1923 (1923-07-15) linking Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, becoming the first regular services of the country.^[2]:119 The name Aeroflot was adopted in 1932 after the reorganisation of Dobrolet.^[3] By the end of the 1930s the carrier had the following routes in operation: Kharkov–Kiev, Kharkov–Odessa, Kiev–Odessa, Kiev–Rostov–Mineralnye Vody, Kiev–Simferopol, Moscow–Leningrad, Moscow–Minsk, Moscow–Odessa, Moscow–Sochi, Moscow–Kuybishev, Moscow–Baku–Tbilisi, Moscow–Simferopol, Moscow–Stalingrad–Astrakhan, Tbilisi–Sukhumi, Tbilisi–Yerevan, Kutasi–Mestia and Sukhumi–Sochi.^[4]

By April 1965 (1965-04), the carrier operated an extensive domestic and international network that included Accra, Amsterdam, Bamako, Brussels, Cairo, Conakry, Copenhague, Delhi, Djakarta, Havana, Helsinki, Kabul, Karachi, Khartoum, London, Paris, Rabat, Rangoon, Stockholm and Vienna; routes to Algiers, Baghdad, Brazzaville, Colombo, Nicosia, Teheran and Tunis, all of them inauagurated in 1964, were also flown.^[3] At March 1970 (1970-03), Aeroflot had a route network that was 600,000 kilometres (370,000 mi) long, a quarter of which covered international destinations. At this time, the carrier had agreements with 59 countries but it only served 54 of them, including 55 destinations.^[5]:463

Once the world's largest carrier,^[6]:1389 Aeroflot did not restrict its operations to the transportation of passengers, but monopolised all civil aviation activities within the Soviet Union. Apart from passenger transportation that covered a domestic network of over 3,600 villages, towns and cities, activities undertaken by the airline that were labelled as "non-transport tasks" included agricultural work, ice reconnaissance, anti-forest fire patrol, and aeromedical services, among many others.^[6]:1389[7] It also became the de facto flag carrier of the USSR beyond its borders.

An Aeroflot Airbus A310-300, the first type of Western-built aircraft that were incorporated into the airline's fleet after its mid–1992 reorganisation,^[8]:42[9] is seen here on final approach to Düsseldorf Airport in 2003, wearing the old livery, a remnant of the Soviet era.

The former monopolistic Aeroflot – Soviet Airlines entered a new era following the dissolution of the USSR, when it shrank dramatically as it was split into several regional companies throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States in mid–1992. It was gradually reorganised and renamed Aeroflot – Russian International Airlines (ARIA).^[8]:42 The incorporation of Western-built aircraft to its fleet, starting with the Airbus A310-300, was a milestone for the company.^[8]:42[9] ARIA continued operating the former Aeroflot – Soviet Airlines international network, as well as serving a number of domestic destinations; yet, many of them were gradually abandoned within the forthcoming years.

At March 2000 (2000-03), Moscow Sheremetyevo was the carrier's main base; the airport was also one of its hubs, along with Novosibirsk, St Petersburg and Vladivostok, from where it operated scheduled international services to Accra, Amman, Amsterdam, Ankara, Antalya, Athens, Baku, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beijing, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin, Bishkek, Bourgas, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cairo, Calcutta, Casablanca, Chicago, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Cotonou, Dakar, Damascus, Delhi, Dhaka, Dnepropetrovsk, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Hanoi, Hanover, Havana, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Karlovy Vary, Kathmandu, Kaunas, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, Larnaca, Lima, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Luanda, Luleå, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Mahe Island, Male, Malta, Manila, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Montreal, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya, New York, Nice, Niigata, Osaka, Oslo, Paphos, Paris, Prague, Riga, Rome, Rovaniemi, Salzburg, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Shannon, Sharjah, Shenyang, Simferopol, Singapore, Skopje, Sofia, Stockholm, Tbilisi, Tehran, Thessaloniki, Tivat, Tokyo, Toronto, Tripoli, Tromso, Tunis, Ulaanbaatar, Varna, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington, Yerevan, Zagreb and Zurich, and domestic flights to Adler/Sochi, Anapa, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bratsk, Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Murmansk, Naryan-Mar, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Omsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Rostov, Samara, Volgograd and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.^[10] In mid-2000, the name of the company was changed to simply Aeroflot – Russian Airlines.^[11]

List

Following is a list of destinations the carrier flies to, as of July 2015, according to its passenger and cargo schedules.^[12][13] The list also includes destinations served by Aeroflot subsidiary Donavia.^[14] Terminated destinations once served by Aeroflot within the post–1992 era are also included. Each destination is provided with the country name, the name of the airport served, and both the International Air Transport Association (IATA) three-letter code (IATA airport code) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) four-letter code (ICAO airport code).

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Notes and references

Notes

1. ↑ Aeroflot-Cargo was a former subsidiary of Aeroflot; it now operates as part of the regular fleet of the airline.^[15]
2. ↑ Disputed.
3. ↑ Sukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a self-declared independent state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous republic of Georgia.

References

External links

• Borodina, Polina (1 May 2013). "Aeroflot transfers some flights from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Vnukovo". Air Transport World. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014.  
• Aeroflot Official English website
• Aeroflot Online schedule