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 city at Lensk Airport. The airline operates scheduled and chartered domestic flights.

ALROSA

Alrosa Boeing 737-700
IATA ICAO Call sign 6R DRU MIRNY
Founded	2000; 25 years ago (2000)
Hubs	Mirny Airport Polyarny Airport
Fleet size	5
Destinations	11
Parent company	ALROSA
Headquarters	Mirny, Russia
Website	alrosa.aero

It is currently banned from flying in the EU like all other Russian airlines.^[1]

History

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^[2] and operated passenger charter services in Russia and the CIS out of Moscow Vnukovo Airport.^[2] 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 Mirny to Novosibirsk. The aircraft was installed as a monument at the Tolmachevo Museum of Aviation.^[3]

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

Destinations

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]):^[4]

Russia

Irkutsk Oblast

• Irkutsk – International Airport Irkutsk^[5]

Krasnodar Krai

• Krasnodar – Pashkovsky Airport terminated

Krasnoyarsk Krai

• Krasnoyarsk – Yemelyanovo Airport

Leningrad Oblast / Saint Petersburg

• Pulkovo International Airport

Moscow / Moscow Oblast

• Moscow Domodedovo Airport
• Vnukovo International Airport^[5]

Novosibirsk Oblast

• Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport

Orenburg Oblast

• Orenburg - Orenburg Tsentralny Airport^[5]

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)

Fleet

As of September 2024, the ALROSA fleet - excluding helicopters - includes the following aircraft:^[6]

Alrosa-Avia fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Passengers			Notes
			C	Y	Total
Antonov An-24RV	1	—	—	48	48
Antonov An-38	1	—	—	26	26
Boeing 737-700	1	—	—	136	136
Boeing 737-800	3	—	12	144	166
Sukhoi Superjet 100	—	2	TBA			Letter of intent signed in 2018.[7]
Yakovlev MC-21-300	—	3[8]	TBA			Deliveries planned to begin in 2023.[9]
Total	6	5

Accidents and Incidents

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 Udachny to Moscow. 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.^[10][11][12] The aircraft was later repaired and returned to service.