S7 Airlines

S7 Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
S7 SBI SIBERIAN AIRLINES
FoundedMay 1957 (as Tolmachevsky squadron)
Commenced operationsMay 1992 (as Siberia Airlines)
Hubs
  • Moscow–Domodedovo
  • Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo
Focus cities
  • Irkutsk
  • St. Petersburg
  • Vladivostok
Frequent-flyer programS7 Priority
AllianceOneworld
Subsidiaries
  • Cyprus Airways
  • Globus Airlines
  • Epic Aircraft
Fleet size95 (incl subsidiaries)
Destinations146
Company sloganFreedom to choose
Parent companyS7 AirSpace Corporation
HeadquartersOb, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
Key peopleVladimir Obyedkov, General Director
Employees3,000[1]
Websites7.ru

S7 Airlines is a Russian airline. It is the second largest airline. It was created in May 1992. Originally, it was named Siberia Airlines. In 1994, the airline joined IATA. The airline's name was changed to S7 Airlines in 2005.[2] In 2010, the airline joined Oneworld. S7 Airlines stopped flying Soviet planes in 2008.[3] As of 2015, the airline has Airbus A319s, Airbus A320s, Airbus A321s, Boeing 737s and Boeing 767s.[4]

  • An old Siberian Airlines. This exact plane was bombed in 2004.[5][6]
  • An S7 Airbus A310. S7 stopped flying them in 2012.[7]
  • An A319 of S7 Airlines with the oneworld paint-job.
  • The cabin of an S7 airplane.

References

  1. ↑ "Network and Operations - Marketing, Financial, Corporate". www.oneworld.com. oneworld Alliance, LLC. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Bringing Siberia Airlines in from the cold - Thinking". 12 February 2007. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
  3. ↑ http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/s7-to-acquire-11-boeings-retire-soviet-fleet/370795.html
  4. ↑ "Please verify your request". www.planespotters.net.
  5. ↑ "Aerospaceweb.org - Ask Us - Commercial Airline Bombing History". www.aerospaceweb.org.
  6. ↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-154B-2 RA-85556 Gluboki". aviation-safety.net. Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  7. ↑ "Last S7 A310-300 retired from service and parked at Novosibirsk". ch-aviation.
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