Odessa Airlines is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. It operates charter passenger services from Ukraine to destinations in Russia

Russia

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, Syria

Syria

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, Turkey

Turkey

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 and Germany

Germany

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. It also carries out agricultural works. Its main base is Odessa International Airport.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1996. It was originally part of Aeroflot

Aeroflot

OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines , commonly known as Aeroflot , is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation, based on passengers carried per year...

 and separated into an independent organisation, State Aircompany Odessa Airlines, on 29 July 1996. On 20 August 2003 it changed the form of ownership and became Open Joint Stock Company Odessa Airlines.

Fleet

The Odessa Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) :

• 3 Yakovlev Yak-40
  Yakovlev Yak-40
  The Yakovlev Yak-40 is a small, three-engined airliner that is often called the first regional jet transport aircraft...