ALROSA (airline)

CJSC "Air Company ALROSA" (Russian: ЗАО «Авиакомпания АЛРОСА», ZAO «Aviakompanija ALROSA»; Yakut: Алроса авиахампанньа, Alrosa aviaxampannya), formerly Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise (Alrosa Air Company Limited) is an airline from Mirny, Russia. Its bases are at Mirny Airport and Polyarny Airport, with a focus cityatLensk Airport. The airline operates scheduled and chartered domestic flights.

Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise was founded by the Russian mining company ALROSA (Almazy Rossii Sakha). A sister company Alrosa Avia, which was established in 1992^[1] and operated passenger charter services in Russia and the CIS out of Moscow Vnukovo Airport.^[1] The company's flight certificate was annulled on 21 November 2008. On 29 September 2018, RA-85684, the aircraft involved in Alrosa Flight 514 completed its last flight from MirnytoNovosibirsk. The aircraft was installed as a monument at the Tolmachevo Museum of Aviation.^[2]

On 29 October 2020, ALROSA airline operated the last civil Tu-154 flight in Russia. The Tu-154, tail number RA-85757, flew from MirnytoNovosibirsk carrying 140 passengers.^{[citation needed]}

Alrosa An-38 wearing an old livery

Alrosa Boeing 737-800

Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise serves the following destinations within Russia (as of December 2015^[update]):^[3]

Russia
Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk – International Airport Irkutsk^[4]

Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar – Pashkovsky Airport terminated

Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk – Yemelyanovo Airport

Leningrad Oblast / Saint Petersburg

Pulkovo International Airport

Moscow / Moscow Oblast

Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport

Orenburg Oblast

Orenburg - Orenburg Tsentralny Airport^[4]

Sakha

Lensk – Lensk Airport focus city
Mirny – Mirny Airport base
Udachny – Polyarny Airport base
Yakutsk – Yakutsk Airport

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport

Tomsk Oblast

Tomsk - Bogashevo Airport

Russia/Ukraine (disputed territory of Crimea)
Crimea

Simferopol International Airport (suspended)

As of July 2022, the ALROSA fleet - excluding helicopters - includes the following aircraft:^[5]

Alrosa-Avia fleet
Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Passengers			Notes
Aircraft	In Service	Orders	C	Y	Total	Notes
Antonov An-24RV	1	—	—	48	48
Antonov An-38	1	—	—	26	26
Boeing 737-700	2	—	—	136	136
Boeing 737-800	1	—	12	144	166
Irkut MC-21-300	—	3^[6]	TBA			Deliveries planned to begin in 2023.^[7]
Sukhoi Superjet 100	—	2	TBA			Letter of intent signed in 2018.^[8]
Total	5	5

RA-85684, the Tupolev Tu-154M involved in the 2010 incident of Alrosa Flight 514

7 September 2010 (2010-09-07): Alrosa Flight 514, operated by a Tupolev Tu-154M (RA-85684), suffered a complete in-flight electrical failure while on a scheduled domestic flight from UdachnytoMoscow. A successful emergency landing was made at the disused Izhma Airport but the aircraft overran the runway and was damaged. All 81 people on board escaped uninjured.^[9]^[10]^[11] The aircraft was later repaired and returned to service.

^ ^a ^b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 74.

^ "RA-85684 | Tupolev Tu-154M | Alrosa Airlines | Artyom Kuzhlev".

^ "Расписание". Мирнинское авиационное предприятие. Retrieved 8 June 2012.

^ ^a ^b ^c "На самолете в Иркутск? Легко! У Оренбуржцев появилась возможность улететь в Сибирь". 56orb.ru (in Russian). Сетевое издание «56 медиа». 3 February 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2024.

^ "Our fleet". alrosa.aero. Retrieved 2 July 2022.

^ "Russia's Alrosa to lease 3+3 MC-21-300s from IFC". ch-aviation.com. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

^ "Irkut MC-21 Wins Few Airline Orders at MAKS 2017". ainonline.com. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

^ "Alrosa Airlines to replace its vintage Tupolevs with Superjet 100s". Russian Aviation Insider. 26 November 2018.

^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Alrosa Mirny T154 at Izhma on Sep 7th 2010, loss of electrics and landing on helicopter platform". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 7 September 2010.

^ "Lucky Tu-154 crash landing in Komi". BarentsObserver. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2010.

^ "Pilots Called Heroes After Crash Landing". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2010.

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