Airline ist. Airline East Air (East Air)
The East Line Group, which manages Domodedovo Airport, has sold the airline of the same name, with which it started its business in the early 1990s. The company with a fleet of more than 20 aircraft was bought by the co-owner of another cargo airline, Tesis, Alexei Kuimov, who, thanks to the deal, became a monopolist in the transportation of goods from China.
The East Line group of companies manages the Domodedovo airport, which served 9.4 million passengers in 2003. In 2003, the revenue of the East Line group, according to its data, amounted to $ 650 million. The East Line airline, which was still part of the group, operates 13 Il-76TD "trucks" (four of them are leased from Domodedovo Airlines "), three passenger Il-86s, two Tu-154Ms and three business aviation aircraft - Tu-134 and Il-62M aircraft and a Mi-8 business helicopter. East Line's revenue, according to Alexei Kuimov, is about 4 billion rubles. The Tesis airline operates 10 Il-76TD "trucks" and two passenger Tu-154Ms. The company's revenue in 2003 amounted to about 2.5 billion rubles. The Tesis group includes a travel agency of the same name and a number of transport companies. According to the Moscow Registration Chamber, the founders of Tesis are a number of individuals, including a former minister civil aviation USSR Boris Panyukov and the chairman of the board of directors of the company Alexei Kuimov, as well as the Sudostroitelny Bank, Samara Airlines, and others. Kuimov is also known as the founder of the For Holy Russia party.
Back in March, the chairman of the board of directors of East Line, Dmitry Kamenshchik, said in an interview with Vedomosti that the group had decided to concentrate on the airport business. East Line recognized the airline and the production of electric trains as non-core businesses and decided to sell it. As it turned out, in early June, the East Line airline changed ownership.
Alexei Kuimov, chairman of the board of directors of Tesis, told Vedomosti that he and his partners bought the East Line airline from the structures of Dmitry Kamenshchik. According to him, the deal began in April, and ended on June 7, when the business of Tesis and East Line was merged under the management company Russian Sky Aviation Group, whose general director is Kuimov himself. The sale of the airline is also confirmed in East Line press office: "This deal is in its final stages. At the same time, the East Line air communications agency and the cargo agency (sales of air tickets and freight, respectively) remain part of the group.
According to one of former employees Kuimova, he, like the Mason, comes from Sverdlovsk region. According to the interlocutor of Vedomosti, since the beginning of the 1990s, Kuimov, together with a number of Sverdlovsk entrepreneurs, has been engaged in the air transportation business in Moscow. Kuimov's business is on the upswing: he himself points out that 23 Il-76s owned by the united company are approximately 40% of the operating fleet of Ilov trucks in the country. The united company intends to lease new domestic equipment, as well as to modernize the Il-76, which is prohibited from flying to Europe due to restrictions on engine noise.
Official federal agency air transport says that the airlines have not yet merged legally, each of them remains a separate operator with its own licenses. At the same time, he notes that Tesis and East Line are the only airlines that have commercial rights to regular cargo flights between Russia and China. According to the Atlant-Soyuz airline, the volume of the cargo transportation market in this direction reaches $200 million a year.
Competitors are not happy with the merger of the two companies. “Since the beginning of June, the aviation authorities have again banned charter cargo flights between Russia and China. Therefore, Tesis and East Line, which are the only ones who have the right to regular flights Together, as they say, they harvest the harvest," Stanislav Leichenko, general director of the Atlant-Soyuz airline, states. He estimates the cost of the transaction for the purchase of East Line by Tesis at about $ 30 million. The companies themselves do not comment on it.
UFG analyst Elena Sakhnova notes that the first capital of East Line was earned just on air transportation of goods from China in the mid-1990s. However, the airport business is now more profitable, and the money from the sale of the airline can be invested in the airport and get more returns, she said, so the decision to sell the airline seems to be justified.
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The young company East Air was founded in 2007 in Tajikistan. Since then, it has been actively developing, and already in 2013 it carried 100,000 passengers. The headquarters of the airline is located in Dushanbe. The base airports are Kulyab and Kurgan-Tyube, from here flights are carried out throughout Tajikistan and to some cities of Russia. The carrier plans to expand air flights to other countries of the world.
East Air provides regular passenger flights, charter flights, and also provides social services. The company's fleet consists of four Boeing-737 and Airbus-320 aircraft. All of them meet the requirements of safety, reliability, and also have comfortable salons, equipped according to international standards of technical equipment. At the same time, the airline is trying to provide its customers with affordable tickets for flights.
Aircraft cabin service
The East Air airline offers its passengers comfortable conditions during the flight. You can buy economy and business class tickets. The carrier provides its passengers with a fairly varied menu, soft and tonic drinks.
On East Air ships, depending on the flight time, you can count on breakfast, lunch or dinner. The menu includes dishes national cuisine Tajikistan, as well as a variety of oriental delicacies. Passengers can choose snacks, desserts. To please their passengers, airline employees periodically update the menu.
The aircraft cabin has logbook so that passengers can be distracted during the flight. On the pages of the glossy edition you can find a lot of interesting and fascinating information.
Useful information, special offers of the airline
East Air allows free travel for children under 5 years old, but the child is not provided with a separate seat.
If two or more children under 5 years old are traveling with an adult, the airline provides a 50% discount for the second and each subsequent child from the ticket price for an adult.
For children aged 5-12 there is an opportunity to purchase a ticket with a 50% discount from the fare for an adult. In this case, the child is given a separate place.
The airline provides the Unaccompanied Child service. So, East Air allows transportation of a child without adults if they issue the appropriate document.
The airline often arranges various special offers, promotions, gifts, thereby encouraging its customers.
Transportation of social importance
The airline provides flights of social importance twice a year (August and February). Thus, by order of the International Peace Village, East Air transported sick children to Germany for complex operations, and half a year earlier, it transported children who were treated in Europe back home.
East Air participates in charitable projects and provides sponsorship. In 2013, the company became a sponsor of the football games between the teams of India and Tajikistan, in addition, it provided chartered flight footballers of their native country to India and back.
East Air is an air carrier of Tajikistan with the company's base airport in Kulyab and Kurgan-Tyube. The fleet consists of Boeing and Airbus aircraft. From the base airports, the airline flies to Moscow, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Orenburg, Novosibirsk.
Airline history
East Air was launched in September 2007. By August 2013, the passenger turnover for the entire existence amounted to 100,000 passengers. The jubilee passenger received a special bonus card, which gives a 100% discount on one one-way flight, and some other additional prizes.
In August 2013, the airline completed the order of the International Peace Village. East Air transported children in need of various complex surgeries to Germany from Tajikistan, and picked up previously transported children in the opposite direction. The company conducts such flights twice a year - in February and August.
In addition, the airline sponsored the football games between the teams of India and Tajikistan in the first ten days of August. East Air transported football players to the city of Khujand and back. By the beginning of autumn 2013 aviation company employed 26 girls for the position of flight attendants. There were more than 100 candidates in total. In October of the same year, an unprecedented action was announced, which had never before been used in the Tajik aviation market. Each flight of the company became a successful trip for one randomly selected passenger. He was given a variety of gifts: bonus cards, telephones from the Megafon company, one-time free tickets and discounts.
In November 2013, the airline launched an online booking system for plane tickets. The company took a similar action to simplify the process of buying tickets for passengers who have bank cards. This booking system saves a lot of time. The company's management also stated that if a purchase is made from the official website of the airline, the client receives a discount. In December of the same year, the company announced the start of cooperation with Traveport, which provides services in the field of e-commerce and sales in the field of global tourism. Since then, East Air has provided all of its content to travel agencies outside of its own location. Access is open to absolutely all users of Traveport.
At the beginning of 2014, the airline joined the Multilateral Agreement, which deals with the formation of transfer links and through tariffs for transportation through Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport, Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Now the company's passengers have the opportunity to fly in transit to different cities Russian Federation and far abroad countries from Tajikistan. All flights are carried out through Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.
In March, East Air released its own in-flight magazine, the only one among all airlines in Tajikistan. It provides passengers with all the necessary information regarding prices, aircraft, promotions, rules, plans, news, and so on. Throughout the spring, flight attendants changed the color of their uniforms from strict black and gray to bold turquoise.
On April 9, EastAir launched a new flight from Kurgan-Tube to Chelyabinsk and back. The flight is carried out every Wednesday. And from April 6, flights to Orenburg were resumed. At the end of April, the airline was added to the list of permitted carriers with the possibility of sale electronic tickets CCS-TCH in GDSGalileo. By the end of April, before the opening of the Khujand-Sharjah flight, East Air entered the IATABSP mutual settlement system in the United United Arab Emirates. This step will help in the future development and expansion of the airline's capabilities.
In June 2014, a joint social campaign was held by East Air, the IFRC and the Red Crescent to distribute information leaflets on the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. These leaflets were distributed in the pockets of the seats of all aircraft that flew from Kulyab and Kurgan-Tube to different cities of the Russian Federation and back.
In summer, the airline acquired an Airbus A320 aircraft on lease. A long-term agreement was signed for the purchase of the liner under dry leasing from Turkish partners.
The aviation fleet consists of 3 Airbus A320s and 2 Boeing 737s.
East Air basic data:
Airline country - Tajikistan
International air flights from Tajikistan
IATA airline code: EG
