What is Metrojet

What is known to the company, previously called Kogalymavia. Short

On Saturday morning, October 31, Airbus A321 Metrojet (Kogalymavia), which executed the flight No. 9268 from Sharm-El Sheikh to St. Petersburg, broke up on Sinai. On board were 224 people. The flight was organized by the St. Petersburg tourist operator Brisco. Medusa briefly says what is known about the Metrojet airline.

Metrojet / Kogalymavia is a former regional airline. The company was founded in 1993. Then it was called Kolavia (Kogalymavia) and made flights from Kogalym, Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk to Moscow. The company's air park consisted of two aircraft-the Tu-134 and Tu-154.

In 2009, the company bought Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, and in the fall of 2011 refused to operate Tupolev aircraft. In May 2012, Kolavia rebranded and was called Metrojet. All flights began to be operated on Airbus aircraft. In total, there are 10 aircraft in the company’s air park: two Airbus A320 and seven A321, one Canadair Challenger 850. The average age of aircraft is 14 years.

In 2013, the airline was headed by Sergey Mordvintsev, who previously worked at the Kuban airline. The air park was set in his tasks and achieve the best regularity of flights - the airline often endured the time of departure of its aircraft.

Metrojet basic airport - Domodedovo (Moscow). Most of the flights are operated in Egypt.

Incidents have already occurred with Kogalymavia aircraft. In January 2010, the Tu-154 plane (was captured by the Iranian company Taban Air) made a rough landing at the Iranian airport of Mashhead, about 40 people were injured. In April of the same year, the Kogalymavia plane Airbus A320, flying from Moscow to Hurghada, was emergency landing in Domodedovo. In January 2011, the Tu-154, which performed the Surgut-Moscow flight, caught fire on the runway, the passengers were evacuated, three people died, 43 were injured.

A plane of Metrojet Airbus A321, which crashed on October 31, was crashed on Sinai on Sinai, operated for 18 years. Before Kogalymavia, he belonged to the Turkish Onur Air and the Lebanese Middle East Air. A source of RIA Novosti at the Sharm El Sheikh airport said that the A321 crew had contacted the technical service several times in connection with the refusal of the engine launch.

The BRISCO tour operator and Metrojet airline are closely related to each other. Flight 9268 Sharm El Sheikh-Pulkovo was organized by the Brisco tourist operator. According to the press secretary of the Russian Union of Trade, Irina Tyurina, this company was a flight customer, although it could have customers and other operators. According to Tyurina, we are talking about residents of St. Petersburg and neighboring regions.

The offices of Metrojet and Brisco are located in the same Business Center "Golden Ring" on South Portovaya Street in Moscow. Brisco is the trademark of Triomed LLC, its founder is Vishan Tabulaev. At the same time, Tabulaev is headed by Western Aviation and Investment Company LLC, which, in turn, owns Kogalymavia airline. In the Western Aviation Investment Company, 44.4% belong to Hamit Bagan and 27.8% Amirbek Gagaev and Buvaisaru Khalidov.