RusLine

RusLine
РусЛайн
	RusLine Bombardier CRJ-100ER
Founded	1999; 27 years ago
Operating bases	Moscow-Vnukovo
Secondary hubs	Saint Petersburg; Ulan-Ude; Voronezh; Yekaterinburg;
Fleet size	9
Destinations	30
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Website	www.rusline.aero

RusLine (Russian: Авиакомпания «РусЛайн», Aviakompanija «RusLajn») is a regional airline from Russia that operates mostly domestic regional flights, as well as holiday charters. Its headquarters are located in the Omega Plaza (Омега Плаза) business centre in Moscow, Russia. As of June 2025^[update], the airline is banned from flying into the EU like all other Russian airlines.

History

The company was founded in 1999 as Aerotex Airlines and was originally based at Sheremetyevo International Airport. In March 2013, it was renamed RusLine, which coincided with a move to Vnukovo International Airport shortly after.

On 1 April 2010, RusLine acquired the assets and brand name of bankrupt Air Volga. This included six Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft,^{[citation needed]} and Air Volga's base at Volgograd International Airport.

Originally, the airline operated several ageing Soviet-built aircraft. The first Western airliner, a 50-seat Bombardier CRJ100, was introduced with RusLine in February 2008. Over the following years, further planes of that type (all of which had been acquired second-hand) were added.^{[citation needed]} In April 2012, RusLine took delivery of two larger Airbus A319 aircraft formerly owned by easyJet in order to address the growing demand for charter flights.^{[citation needed]}

Destinations

As of February 2013^[update], RusLine operates scheduled flights to the following destinations.^{[needs update]}

Country	Region	City	Airport	Notes
Kazakhstan	Aqtobe Region	Aqtobe	Aliya Moldagulova International Airport	Terminated
Kazakhstan	Mangystau Region	Aqtau	Aqtau International Airport	Terminated
Lebanon	Beirut Governorate	Beirut	Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport	Terminated
Turkey	Central Anatolia Region	Ankara	Ankara Esenboğa Airport	Terminated
Turkey	Marmara Region	Istanbul	Istanbul Airport	Terminated
Russia	Arkhangelsk Oblast	Arkhangelsk	Vaskovo Airport	Terminated
	Arkhangelsk Oblast	Arkhangelsk	Talagi Airport
	Bashkortostan	Ufa	Mustai Karim Ufa International Airport
	Belgorod Oblast	Belgorod	Belgorod International Airport	Terminated
	Buryatia	Ulan-Ude	Baikal International Airport
	Chelyabinsk Oblast	Chelyabinsk	Kurchatov Chelyabinsk International Airport
	Dagestan	Makhachkala	Uytash Airport
	Irkutsk Oblast	Irkutsk	International Airport Irkutsk
	Ivanovo Oblast	Ivanovo	Ivanovo Yuzhny Airport
	Kalmykia	Elista	Elista Airport	Terminated
	Kaluga Oblast	Kaluga	Grabtsevo Airport
	Karelia	Petrozavodsk	Besovets Airport
	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	Beloyarsky	Beloyarsk Airport
	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug	Khanty-Mansiysk	Khanty-Mansiysk Airport
	Kirov Oblast	Kirov	Pobedilovo Airport
	Komi	Vorkuta	Vorkuta Airport
	Komi	Syktyvkar	Syktyvkar Airport
	Krasnodar Krai	Gelendzhik	Gelendzhik Airport	Terminated
		Krasnodar	Pashkovsky Airport	Terminated
		Sochi	Adler-Sochi International Airport
	Lipetsk Oblast	Lipetsk	Lipetsk Airport	Terminated
	Mari El	Yoshkar-Ola	Yoshkar-Ola Airport	Suspended
	Mordovia	Saransk	Saransk Airport
	Moscow Moscow Oblast	Moscow	Vnukovo International Airport	Base
	Moscow Moscow Oblast	Moscow	Zhukovsky International Airport	Terminated
	Nenets Autonomous Okrug	Naryan-Mar	Naryan-Mar Airport
	Novosibirsk Oblast	Novosibirsk	Tolmachevo Airport
	Penza Oblast	Penza	Penza Vissarion Belinsky Airport	Terminated
	Stavropol Krai	Mineralnye Vody	Mineralnye Vody Airport
	Saint Petersburg Leningrad Oblast	Saint Petersburg	Pulkovo Airport	Base
	Samara Oblast	Samara	Kurumoch International Airport
	Saratov Oblast	Saratov	Saratov Gagarin Airport
	Sverdlovsk Oblast	Yekaterinburg	Koltsovo Airport	Hub
	Tambov Oblast	Tambov	Tambov Donskoye Airport
	Tatarstan	Kazan	Ğabdulla Tuqay Kazan International Airport
	Tatarstan	Naberezhnye Chelny Nizhnekamsk	Begishevo Airport
	Udmurtia	Izhevsk	Izhevsk Airport
	Ulyanovsk Oblast	Ulyanovsk	Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport
	Volgograd Oblast	Volgograd	Gumrak Airport	Terminated
	Voronezh Oblast	Voronezh	Chertovitskoye Airport	Terminated
	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug	Nadym	Nadym Airport
	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug	Salekhard	Salekhard Airport
	Yaroslavl Oblast	Yaroslavl	Golden Ring Yaroslavl International Airport
Abkhazia	Abkhazia	Sukhumi	Vladislav Ardzinba Sukhum International Airport

Fleet

Current fleet

As of August 2025^[update], RusLine operates the following aircraft:

RusLine fleet
Aircraft	In service	Orders	Passengers
Bombardier CRJ100	5	—	50
Bombardier CRJ200	4	—	50
Total	9	—

Historic fleet

Over the years, the following aircraft types were operated:

Aircraft	Introduced	Retired
Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia	2011	2015
Tupolev Tu-134	1997	2011
Yakovlev Yak-40	1997	2011

Accidents and incidents

On 20 June 2011, 47 people died in the crash of Flight 243. The aircraft involved, a Tupolev Tu-134 (registered RA-65691) had been leased by RusLine from RusAir and was approaching Petrozavodsk Airport, completing a flight from Moscow-Domodedovo. Due to poor visibility conditions, the pilots were unaware that they descended too rapidly, so that the aircraft struck trees and impacted on a highway. There were five survivors.

References

1 2 3 "Авиакомпания "РусЛайн" начинает базироваться в Улан-Удэ и запускает новый рейс в Иркутск". airportbaikal.ru. 27 April 2018.
↑ "КОНТАКТЫ." RusLine. Retrieved on 21 June 2011. "КОНТАКТЫ ГОЛОВНОЙ ОФИС Адрес: 115280, г. Москва, ул. Ленинская слобода, д.19, бизнес-центр «Омега Плаза»"
↑ "The EU Air Safety List - European Commission". transport.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
1 2 3 4 5 "ATDB.aero aerotransport.org AeroTransport Data Bank". aerotransport.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
↑ "География полетов". Archived from the original on 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
↑ Ливнева, Алёна (14 November 2025). "Из Челябинска запустили прямые авиарейсы до Ханты-Мансийска". Pchela.news (in Russian). Сетевое издание «ПЧЕЛА». Retrieved 16 November 2025.
↑ "Возобновление рейсов Белоярский – Москва (Жуковский) с 8 марта". Airline "RusLine". Retrieved 14 February 2025.
1 2 "Открытие рейсов по новому направлению Ханты-Мансийск – Салехард". Airline "RusLine". Retrieved 14 February 2025.
1 2 Думичева, Ася (2 August 2025). "Как летают самолеты между Салехардом и Ханты-Мансийском: расписание, подробности". Интернет-сайт «Красный Север» (in Russian). Retrieved 25 August 2025.
↑ "Из кировского аэропорта Победилово вылетел первый рейс в Петербург". ИТАР-ТАСС. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
↑ ЭШКИНИНА, ВАЛЕРИЯ (1 October 2023). "Взлетная полоса аэропорта Йошкар-Олы закрылась на ремонт". Общественно-политическое сетевое издание «Марийская правда». Retrieved 2 October 2023.
↑ Liu, Jim (17 May 2019). "RusLine expands Adler/Sochi network in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
1 2 Птуха, Ирина (18 June 2024). "Аэропорт "Тамбов" принял первый рейс из Казани". www.onlinetambov.ru (in Russian). Онлайн Тамбов.ру. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
↑ ""РусЛайн" с 15 декабря возобновляет рейс Ярославль- Санкт-Петербург // АвиаПорт.Новости". www.aviaport.ru. Агентство «АвиаПорт». 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
↑ "Direct flights from Moscow to Abkhazia". www.rusline.aero. Retrieved 2025-11-15.
↑ "Global Airline Guide 2025 - RusLine". Airliner World. September 2025. p. 73.
↑ AviaPort digest (in Russian)
↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 134A-3 RA-65691 Petrozavodsk Airport (PES)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
↑ "Crash: Rusair T134 at Petrozavodsk on Jun 20th 2011, impacted road short of runway". The Aviation Herald. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.

External links

Media related to RusLine at Wikimedia Commons

Official website (in Russian)

[airportbaikal1-1] 1 2 3 "Авиакомпания "РусЛайн" начинает базироваться в Улан-Удэ и запускает новый рейс в Иркутск". airportbaikal.ru. 27 April 2018.

[2] "КОНТАКТЫ." RusLine. Retrieved on 21 June 2011. "КОНТАКТЫ ГОЛОВНОЙ ОФИС Адрес: 115280, г. Москва, ул. Ленинская слобода, д.19, бизнес-центр «Омега Плаза»"

[3] "The EU Air Safety List - European Commission". transport.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2025-02-07.

[atdb-4] 1 2 3 4 5 "ATDB.aero aerotransport.org AeroTransport Data Bank". aerotransport.org. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

[5] "География полетов". Archived from the original on 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

[6] Ливнева, Алёна (14 November 2025). "Из Челябинска запустили прямые авиарейсы до Ханты-Мансийска". Pchela.news (in Russian). Сетевое издание «ПЧЕЛА». Retrieved 16 November 2025.

[7] "Возобновление рейсов Белоярский – Москва (Жуковский) с 8 марта". Airline "RusLine". Retrieved 14 February 2025.

[7R_Khanty-8] 1 2 "Открытие рейсов по новому направлению Ханты-Мансийск – Салехард". Airline "RusLine". Retrieved 14 February 2025.

[Sale-Khanty-9] 1 2 Думичева, Ася (2 August 2025). "Как летают самолеты между Салехардом и Ханты-Мансийском: расписание, подробности". Интернет-сайт «Красный Север» (in Russian). Retrieved 25 August 2025.

[10] "Из кировского аэропорта Победилово вылетел первый рейс в Петербург". ИТАР-ТАСС. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

[11] ЭШКИНИНА, ВАЛЕРИЯ (1 October 2023). "Взлетная полоса аэропорта Йошкар-Олы закрылась на ремонт". Общественно-политическое сетевое издание «Марийская правда». Retrieved 2 October 2023.

[RusLine-AER-12] Liu, Jim (17 May 2019). "RusLine expands Adler/Sochi network in S19". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 May 2019.

[TMB_KZN-13] 1 2 Птуха, Ирина (18 June 2024). "Аэропорт "Тамбов" принял первый рейс из Казани". www.onlinetambov.ru (in Russian). Онлайн Тамбов.ру. Retrieved 19 June 2024.

[14] ""РусЛайн" с 15 декабря возобновляет рейс Ярославль- Санкт-Петербург // АвиаПорт.Новости". www.aviaport.ru. Агентство «АвиаПорт». 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.

[15] "Direct flights from Moscow to Abkhazia". www.rusline.aero. Retrieved 2025-11-15.

[16] "Global Airline Guide 2025 - RusLine". Airliner World. September 2025. p. 73.

[EMB-17] AviaPort digest (in Russian)

[18] Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev 134A-3 RA-65691 Petrozavodsk Airport (PES)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

[avherald-19] "Crash: Rusair T134 at Petrozavodsk on Jun 20th 2011, impacted road short of runway". The Aviation Herald. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.