Private company

AVE.com

Arabic (UAE) charter airline1

AVE.com was a Kyrgyz-UAE airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with its base at Sharjah International Airport, offered charter flights and aircraft lease services. AVE.com was established in 2005 by the renaming of Phoenix Aviation. AVE.com was owned by Evgeny Khaprov and Vladimir Goncharov and (as of 2007) had 230 employees.2 It ceased to exist in 2012.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1996Founded1
  • HeadquartersSharjah1
AVE Boeing 737-200 Pichugin
Photo: Dmitriy Pichugin, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons4

AVE.com was a Kyrgyz-UAE airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates with its base at Sharjah International Airport, offered charter flights and aircraft lease services. AVE.com was established in 2005 by the renaming of Phoenix Aviation.2

The story

Phoenix Aviation was established and started operations in 1996. It was rebranded as AVE.com in October 2005.

The airline was added to the European Union's list of air carriers subject to an operating ban in 2006 after the European Commission determined that Phoenix Aviation did not meet the relevant safety standards.

From Wikipedia’s article on AVE.com, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Services

As Phoenix Aviation, the company operated the following services in January 2005:

Domestic scheduled services: Bishkek and Osh.

International scheduled services: Jinnah International Airport, Karachi.

Fleet

AVE.com operated the following aircraft:

From Wikipedia’s article on AVE.com, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 2012Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1996Founded Founded1

Sources

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