Moscow Airways Aeroflot. In 1993, the airline ordered fifty Beriev Be-32Ps.These were never built nor delivered. The airline ceased operations in 1996 after the fatal accident in Africa which killed approximately 300 people. Moscow Airways Moscow Airways was a Russian airline that was formed as a subsidiary of Aeroflot to operate the airline's fleet of Ilyushin Il-62s. It began operating in 1991, flying passengers and airfreight. Among the airline's destinations by 1993 were Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), from where Moscow Airways ferried home South African Muslims returning from pilgrimage. Moscow Airways operated, from 1993 to 1996, an Ilyushin
Republic Airline activated Republic Airline, and upon Part 121 certification in 2005 allowing Republic Airline to operate commercial service. Republic Airways Holdings then transferred the offending 70-seat regional jets from Chautauqua to Republic Airline. American was thereby no longer in violation of its pilot union scope clause. Republic Airways Holdings paid US$6.6 million to the pilot union of American Airlines to settle this issue. US Airways' pilots had a scope clause prohibiting the airline from operating large regional jets such as the Embraer 170. The airline negotiated around this clause by offering flight deck jobs to laid-off US Airways pilots, in a