KD Avia - Russia Airlines

About Us
KD avia today is an entirely private company known for experienced top management, advanced development strategies, intensively modernized fleet and, most importantly, its successfully implemented project to set up Russia's first air traffic hub that will provide a convenient connection between Russian and European cities.

What we can offer you
We are offering you a qualitatively new, fast and convenient way to travel by air the city you live in to European cities Berlin to Barcelona. You will not need to fly to Moscow, go one airport to another wasting your time and money, put up with inconvenient connections, worry about your baggage, check-in over and over again and wait for boarding for hours. With KD avia you can make a flight your city to Kaliningrad by a fast and comfortable Boeing 737, spend not more than two hours in cozy lounges of the new airport complex before you are asked to board your international flight. You will not need to worry about checking-in and your baggage till you arrive at your final destination. You can take the same way to get back to your city.

Our Flights
Every morning KD avia makes flights your city that will bring you to one of European airports not later than 3 p.m. local time. You can make a ion a wide range of fares that will suit your needs based on duration of your trip and departure airport on your return flight. You can combine our transit routes in a way that mostly suits your needs. You can book a flight at your home or office at the new site of KD avia: www.kdavia.ru. For details on our flights, fares and timetables you can call our helpdesk at any time: 8 4012 355 800.

2004
Ô KD avia reconstructed and renewed the terminal and set up additional check-in counters.
2005
Ô 12 February - Khrabrovo Airport saw a landing of Boeing 737-300 EI-DJK, the first Boeing 737-300 purchased by KD avia as part of its program for upgrading of its fleet.
Ô 9 March - KD avia makes its first regular flight KD992 Kaliningrad to Moscow (Domodedovo) by Boeing.
Ô 20 June - The new company name and trademark KD avia is registered.
Ô June - KD avia withdrew its last Tupolev Tu-134 operation, all flights of KD avia will now on be made by Boeings 737-300.
Ô 25 October - Flight KD 995 Moscow to Kaliningrad brought KD avia's 500th passenger starting the beginning of 2006. Before that KD avia reached its highest number of passengers in 2005 when it carried 287,029 passengers.
Ô 30 November - KD avia began to run all its technology processes on the software of Sabre Airline Solutions and became a leader among Russian airlines in terms of that sort of implementations.
Ô 21 February - KD avia started to issue e-tickets.
Ô 3 April - KD avia won a Krylia Rossii award in the category ÎAirlines of the Year - Domestic Passenger Carrier in Group 3 (passenger kilometers on domestic flights between 0.2-0.5 bln)'.
Ô 14 June - The first order of the new passenger terminal for transit passengers will soon be put into operation. KD avia is launching new scheduled flights to Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd, Tyumen, Ufa, Omsk.
Ô 15 June - In the morning first transit passengers traveling Russia to Europe within the hub&spoke project will arrive in Khrabrovo Airport. KD avia makes first scheduled flights to Athens, London, Barcelona, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Rome, Milan, Munich, Prague and Amsterdam.
Ô 23 June - KD avia holds an impressive presentation of its Air Route Network between Russia and Europe in Khrabrovo Airport. Upon KD avia's initiative, a 6-hour concert of such world famous stars as Joe Cocker, Sweet and Scorpions, is held in Khrabrovo Airport.

31 December 2006 - KD avia received its tenth Boeing 737-400 EI-DON that was named after Aleksandr Plyushchenko. Aleksandr Plyushchenko is a BOD Chaiman of the Project Finance Bank, one of KD avia Îs principal strategic partners that works with KD avia on the large-scale reconstruction of Khrabrovo Airport.
The 12th Boeing in KD avia's fleet is Boeing 737-300 EI-DTY named after Petr Grishchenko, a famous submariner.
In terms of its facilities Devau Airport was one of the best airports of its time, it had spacious airplane sheds, a centralized fuel injection system and a well drained airfield. Due to its even airfield Devau Airport was increasingly used for flights of the first flying machines, in 1913 the French aviator Louis Bleriot who was the first to cross the English Channel by air, made his demonstration flights there. Before World War I Devau was transformed into a military base.
At the beginning of World War II the airport was transferred under the command of Luftwaffe. The last passenger flight Konigsberg was made on 27 January 1945 when the city was almost besieged.
When the war was over the famous Devau received its functions of a civil airport of Kaliningrad in autumn, 1945.
In the early 60s jet airplanes were gradually replacing piston-driven planes. Since it had no concrete surfaces, no jet airplanes could land in Devau. In place of Devau, an airfield of Khrabrovo was chosen that was then managed jointly with the military. Khrabrovo Airport was initially Luftwaffe's airfield Powunden in February, 1945 the famous Normandy Neman Squadron was deployed. In the early 50s a concrete 2,000 m runway and taxiways had been constructed on the ground airfield. Old concrete taxiways blended into the new general airfield scheme and were used as such in the Soviet times.
In 1973 construction of a new complex for Khrabrovo Airport and reconstruction of the runway and taxiways were launched. The total length of the runway amounted to 2,500 m. .
On 17 July 1979 an official opening of the first order of Kaliningrad Airport new complex took place. Airport personnel received a symbolic key to the airport. Kaliningrad obtained a modern passenger airport that demonstrated excellent performance at the peak of air transportations in the 80s.
At the turn of the century Kaliningradavia OJSC launched an ambitious program for qualitative transformation of the airport complex as a whole: reconstruction of the passenger terminal that will have a capacity of more than 2.5 mln passengers per year and will comply with the highest international standards.
On 7 July 2005 an official ceremony was held the first pole for the new terminal was driven into the ground. The new terminal is designed in such as a way that it will have a capacity of up to 2 mln passengers a year, with an emphasis to be placed on transit passengers of both domestic and international flights. The terminal will function so that transfer times remain at their lowest. The terminal will experience daily two peak periods: in the morning when passengers of domestic flights arrive to continue their trip to Europe and in the evening when passengers of international flights travel to Russian cities.
On 14 June the first order of a new 4,532 sq. m. terminal was put into operation. The terminal has a capacity of approx. 900-1,000 passengers per hour. In the future when the following orders of the terminal and new equipment are put into operation, the terminal will be able to service of up to 1,700 passengers per hour.
The second part of the airport complex is currently being constructed and it will be put into operation in late 2009.