Coyne Airways
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| Founded | 1994 | ||||||
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| Destinations | 18 | ||||||
| Parent company | Coyne Aviation Limited | ||||||
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom | ||||||
| Key people | Larry Coyne (MD) | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
Coyne Airways is an all cargo airline based in London, England, United Kingdom. It has a separate operation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It operates scheduled cargo flights to Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, using Antonov, Boeing and Ilyushin aircraft as required. Its main bases are London Stansted Airport, Cologne Bonn Airport and Dubai International Airport.
History
[edit]The airline was established and started operations in 1994. It started as a charter broker specialising in the CIS market. In 1997 it pioneered scheduled freighter services to the Caspian starting with Baku but later adding Tbilisi, Yerevan, Aktau, Atyrau and Uralsk. In December 2006, it began serving this region with a B747 400F from Stansted to Cologne to its hub in Tbilisi, where freight is then transferred to smaller aircraft for distribution around the region.
In July 2002, it inaugurated a freighter service between Seoul and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to meet the growing need for oil and gas development on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.[1]
In 2004, it set up the first (and only scheduled freighter services according to the Official Airline Guide) into Iraq serving Baghdad and many destinations around the country. In 2006 it set up scheduled services into Afghanistan, serving Kandahar, Kabul and Bagram twice-weekly.
It also serves Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and Sana'a, Yemen. In January 2008, it commenced Boeing 747 operations into Lagos, Nigeria. These were discontinued in April 2008.
Destinations
[edit]Coyne Airways operates freight services to the following destinations (as of June 2013):[2][3]
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Iraq
- Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Dubai – Dubai International Airport Base
- United Kingdom
- London – Stansted Airport Base
Fleet
[edit]Coyne Airways do not have their own aircraft, and instead charter the following:
| Aircraft | In Fleet |
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| Antonov An-12 | 1 |
| Boeing 747-400F | 1 |
| Ilyushin Il-76 | 1 |
| Tupolev Tu-204C | 1 |
| Total | 4 |
References
[edit]- ^ Brooke, James (3 October 2002). "Japan Looks to Eastern Russia for Oil". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Coyne Airways Caspian Schedule Archived 2010-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Coyne Airways Gulf Schedule Archived 2010-03-27 at the Wayback Machine