Estonian Air (IATA: OV, ICAO: ELL) was the flag carrier of Estonia, and it was founded 1. December 1991, and operations were ceased 8. November 2015. They operated scheduled routes and charter from Tallinn airport, it's HQ. Prior to its closure, the airline flew from Tallinn to around 11 destinations in Europe. EA operated between 1991 and 2015.

Behind the scenes Estonian air was owned by the government of Estonia. In 2010 the company was purchased back from SAS group to ensure it did not go bankrupt. The airline was EU funded, and when Estonian air broke regulations of the EU, the airline was no longer funded and it went to bankrupt as they had insufficient funds to continue. Operations were ceased 7. November 2015 and the last flight as flown to Copenhagen.

Fleet Boeing 737-300 CRJ700 CRJ900 Yakovlev 40 Saab 340a Embraer 170 etc (not the complete fleet

DESTINATIONS London-Gatwick, Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Trondheim, Stockholm-Arlanda, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Vilnius, Riga, Barcelona, Antalya, Tampere, Nice, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Minsk, Dublin, Kuressaare, Split and Vienna to name few.

The CEO before its closure was Jan Palmér, and the financial leader was Wade Stokes. Estonian Air had competition on some routes, for example Tallinn-Helsinki-Tallinn, Tallinn-Vilnius-Tallinn and Tallinn-Riga-Tallinn. In the 26 years they operated, they had only one “accident”. 14 August 2014, flight OV473 had to return back to Lennart Meri due to tyre blown on takeoff. After landing on runway 08, the regional jet (CRJ9, reg: ES-ACC) taxied to emergency station on its own two engines, and no one was hurt.

(No one cares about the credits) Estonian Wikipedia Finnish Wikipedia English Wikipedia

Video - watch if you dare