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Continental Airways

Passenger charter airline based in Moscow, Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Continental Airways was a passenger charter airline based in Moscow, Russia. It was established in 1995 and operated out of Sheremetyevo International Airport.[1]

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History

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A Continental Ilyushin Il-76TD at Ostend–Bruges International Airport in 1997
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A Continental Ilyushin Il-86 parked at Larnaca International Airport in 2004

The airline was founded in 1995 as a cargo airline operating three Tupolev Tu-154s. Its initial base was Vnukovo International Airport. In 2000, it acquired three Ilyushin Il-76TDs to increase the number of routes it flew and add more destinations. In 2004, they acquired an additional four Tu-154s to start their passenger service, which would make its first flight in 2005.

After facing financial problems for two years, selling several Il-76s and suspending most of their destinations, the Russian Air Safety Agency revoked Continental's permission to fly on July 29, 2011. The next day, the airline declared bankruptcy, thus ceasing all its operations.[2]

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Destinations

Continental Airways served the following scheduled destinations: Abakan, Anapa, Barnaul, Bratsk, Blagoveshchensk, Cheliabinsk, Gelendzhik, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhni Novgorod, Norilsk, Novokuznetsk, Petropavl, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

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A Continental Tupolev Tu-154M at Dubai International Airport in 2005

Continental Airways operated the following aircraft:[3][4]

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