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{{Short description|Russian airline}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Expand Russian|Донавиа|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox airline
| airline = Donavia<br /><small>Донавиа</small>
| logo = Donavia_logo.svg
| logo_size = 250
| fleet_size = 20
| destinations = 20
| IATA = D9<ref name="ATM">Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", ''Airline Reference'', Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 20 February 2007, p. 122</ref>
| ICAO = DNV<ref name="ATM"/>
| callsign = DONAVIA<ref name="ATM"/>
| parent = [[Aeroflot]] (100%)
| company_slogan = 
| founded = 15 June 1925 (as a squadron)
| ceased = 27 March 2016 (merged with [[Rossiya Airlines|Rossiya]])
| headquarters = [[Rostov-on-Don]], [[Russia]]
| key_people = Mikhail Stepanovich Kritskiy ([[Director General]])<ref name="ATM"/>
| hubs = [[Rostov-on-Don Airport]]<ref name="ATM"/>
| focus_cities = *[[Mineralnye Vody Airport]] 
*{{nowrap|[[Moscow Domodedovo Airport]]}}
*[[Sochi International Airport]]
| frequent_flyer = Aeroflot Bonus<ref name="D9+SU"/>
| lounge = 
| alliance = [[SkyTeam]] (affiliate)<ref name="D9+SU"/>
| website = [http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/?language=en aeroflot-don.ru]
}}

'''JSC "Donavia"''' ({{langx|ru|ОАО «Донавиа»}}) was an [[Aeroflot]] [[subsidiary]]<ref name="D9+SU">{{cite news|title=UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AEROFLOT|url=http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/news.aspx?no=361&news=28165&language=en|access-date=2 October 2011|date=2 October 2011|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306085605/http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/news.aspx?language=en&news=28165&no=361|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[airline]] based in [[Rostov-on-Don]], [[Russia]].<ref>"[http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/company.aspx?no=501 Контакты авиакомпании] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606124316/http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/company.aspx?no=501 |date=6 June 2008 }}." Donavia. Retrieved on 29 June 2010. "Адрес: 344009, г. Ростов-на-Дону, пр. Шолохова, 272."</ref><ref>"Directory:World Airlines." ''[[Flight International]]''. 16–22 March 2004. [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2004/2004-09%20-%200050.html?search=Aeromar 48]. "Sholokova Prospekt 272, Rostov-on-Don, 344009, Russia"</ref> Its main bases were [[Rostov-on-Don Airport]] and [[Mineralnye Vody Airport]] after the [[Kavminvodyavia]] [[bankruptcy]].<ref name="ATM"/> It was known as '''Aeroflot-Don''' ({{langx|ru|ОАО «Аэрофлот-Дон»}}) from 2000–2009. In the spring of 2016, its operations and aircraft were merged into sister company [[Rossiya Airlines|Rossiya]].

== History ==
[[File:Airbus A319-112, Donavia JP7564367.jpg|thumb|Donavia [[Airbus A319-100]].]]
[[File:Aeroflot-Don Tu-134 RA-65771.jpg|thumb|right|Aeroflot-Don [[Tupolev Tu-134]] in 2006]]
[[File:Aeroflot-Don Tupolev Tu-154.jpg|thumb|right|Aeroflot-Don [[Tupolev Tu-154]] in 2008]]
[[File:Ilyushin Il-86 Aeroflot Don.jpg|thumb|Aeroflot-Don [[Ilyushin Il-86]] in 2008]]

The airline was established on 15 June 1925 as a squadron under the Soviet airline [[Aeroflot]]. Following the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, it was rebranded as ''Don Airlines'' ("''Donavia''") in 1993. It absorbed the Rostov assets of Aeroflot, and was one of many such "[[Babyflot]]s" to emerge in the early 1990s. However, the airline was purchased by Aeroflot in 2000 and began to operate as ''Aeroflot-Don'' on 13 April 2000. It operated scheduled domestic and international passenger flights as well as passenger and cargo charters, mostly to the [[Middle East]] and within Russia. On 25 September 2009, the airline reverted to the Donavia brand name and the airline adopted [[Airbus A319-151]] and operated for ten years until operations were folded into [[Rossiya Airlines]] in 2016.

==Destinations==
Donavia served the following destinations before its merger with Rossiya:

===Asia===
====[[Central Asia]]====
;{{TJK}}
*[[Dushanbe]] – [[Dushanbe International Airport]]
*[[Khujand]] – [[Khujand Airport]]
;{{UZB}}
*[[Tashkent]] – [[Tashkent International Airport]]

====[[Western Asia]]====
;{{ARM}}
*[[Yerevan]] – [[Zvartnots International Airport]]
;{{ISR}}
*[[Tel Aviv]] – [[Ben Gurion International Airport]]
;{{TUR}}
*[[Antalya]] – [[Antalya Airport]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Scheduled flights|url=http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/timetable.aspx?language=en#a708_1311|work=INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON|publisher=JSC Donavia|access-date=7 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209190645/http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/timetable.aspx?language=en#a708_1311|archive-date=9 February 2016}}</ref>
*[[Istanbul]] – [[Istanbul Atatürk Airport]]

===Europe===
;{{RUS}}
*[[Krasnodar]] – [[Krasnodar International Airport]]
*[[Mineralnye Vody]] – [[Mineralnye Vody Airport]] '''Focus City'''
*[[Moscow]] '''Focus City'''
**[[Moscow Domodedovo Airport]] 
**[[Vnukovo International Airport]] 
*[[Novosibirsk]] – [[Tolmachevo Airport]]
*[[Rostov-on-Don]] – [[Rostov-on-Don Airport]] '''Hub'''
*[[Saint Petersburg]] – [[Pulkovo Airport]]
*[[Sochi]] – [[Sochi International Airport]] '''Focus City'''
*[[Stavropol]] – [[Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport]]
*[[Volgograd]] – [[Volgograd International Airport]]
*[[Yekaterinburg]] – [[Koltsovo Airport]]
;{{RUS}} / {{UKR}} {{ref|1|*}}
*[[Simferopol]] – [[Simferopol International Airport]]

{{note|1|*}}[[Political status of Crimea|The political status of Crimea]] is the subject of a political and territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine.

== Fleet ==
In April 2016, the entire Donavia fleet was reassigned to [[Rossiya Airlines|Rossiya]].{{Cn|date=January 2025}}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Donavia fleet as of 2015
!aircraft 
!in service
!orders 
!
|-
|[[Airbus A319]]
|10
|0
|
|-
| [[Boeing 737-400]]
|3 
|0
|
|-
|[[Boeing 737-500]]
|7
|0
|
|}
'''Retired fleet'''
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!aircraft
!introduced
!retired
!
|-
|[[Ilyushin Il-86]]
|unknown 
|unknown
|
|-
|[[Tupolev Tu-134]]
|unknown
|2008
|
|-
|[[Tupolev Tu-154]]
|unknown
|2009
|
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{commons category-inline|Donavia}}
* {{Official website|http://www.aeroflot-don.ru/}} {{in lang|ru}}

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