Lviv Airlines is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 headquartered on the grounds of Lviv International Airport

Lviv International Airport

Lviv International Airport is an airport in Lviv, Ukraine. In 2010, the airport carried 481,900 passengers. The airport is located from downtown Lviv. Facilities at the airport include a café and shop as well as bus services to the city.-Future expansion:...

 in Lviv

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. It operates chartered passenger and cargo services out of Lviv International Airport.

History

The airline was established by Air Ukraine

Air Ukraine

Air Ukraine was a state-owned airline from Ukraine, serving as flag carrier of the country from 1992 to 2002. Headquartered in Kiev, Air Ukraine operated scheduled passenger and cargo flights mostly on domestice routes or within the Commonwealth of Independent States, but also to other European...

 in 1992 from the Lviv Division of the Aeroflot

Aeroflot

OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines , commonly known as Aeroflot , is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation, based on passengers carried per year...

 Ukraine Directorate. It has 446 employees (at March 2007). Since 2009, no more scheduled services are operated. Their only remaining aircraft is used for charter flights, mostly on behalf of Aerosvit Airlines

Aerosvit Airlines

AeroSvit Airlines closed joint stock company , operating as AeroSvit - Ukrainian Airlines / АероСвіт, is one of the Ukrainian flag carriers. Its head office is on the grounds of Boryspil International Airport in Boryspil, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine...

 and Donbassaero

DonbassAero

Donbassaero is an airline with its head office on the property of Donetsk International Airport in Donetsk, Ukraine. It operates domestic and international scheduled services...

.

Fleet

The Lviv Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at September 2009):

• 1 Yakovlev Yak-42
  Yakovlev Yak-42
  The Yakovlev Yak-42 is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet. It was designed as a replacement for several obsolete Aeroflot jets as a mid-range passenger jet...