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BAL Bashkirian Airlines - Wikipedia

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BAL Bashkirian Airlines

IATA	ICAO	Call sign
V9	BTC	BASHKIRIAN

Founded

1991

Ceased operations

April 2007

Hubs

Ufa International Airport

Frequent-flyer program

BAL+

Fleet size

Destinations

Headquarters

Ufa International Airport, Ufa, Russia

Employees

1,513 (2007)

Website

bal.ufanet.ru

BAL – Bashkirian Airlines (Russian: «Башкирские авиалинии», Bashkir: БАЛ Башҡортостан авиалиниялары, romanized: BAL Bashqortostan Avialiniyaları) was an airline which operated at its head office at Ufa International Airport in Ufa, Russia.^[1] It operated regional and trunk routes from Ufa and charter services to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The company was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2007.^[2]

History

The airline was founded in 1991, originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of the Samara-based Aerovolga.^[3] It began to make permanent domestic, foreign connections and charter flights to Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.

In October 2006, the airline lost its air operator's certificate after intense security renovations with the Ministry of Transport.^[4] In April 2007, Bashkirian Airlines filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.^[5] It had 1,513 employees at the time of its dissolution.

Destinations

As of January 2005, Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services:^{[citation needed]}

Country	City	Airport	Notes
Armenia	Yerevan	Zvartnots International Airport	Charter
Azerbaijan	Baku	Heydar Aliyev International Airport
Egypt	Cairo	Cairo International Airport	Charter
	Hurghada	Hurghada International Airport	Charter
	Sharm El Sheikh	Sharm El Sheikh International Airport	Charter
France	Paris	Charles de Gaulle Airport
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Russia	Moscow	Moscow Domodedovo Airport
	Nadym	Nadym Airport
	Nizhnevartovsk	Nizhnevartovsk Airport
	Novy Urengoy	Novy Urengoy Airport
	Saint Petersburg	Pulkovo Airport
	Samara	Kurumoch International Airport
	Surgut	Surgut International Airport
	Ufa	Ufa International Airport	Hub
Spain	Barcelona	Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Dushanbe International Airport
Tunisia	Tunis	Tunis–Carthage International Airport	Charter
Turkey	Istanbul	Istanbul Atatürk Airport

Fleet

The Bashkirian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:^[6]

Bashkirian Airlines fleet
Aircraft	Total	Introduced	Retired	Notes
Antonov An-2TP	1	1992	1999
Antonov An-24B	6	1993	2001
Antonov An-24RV	4	1994	2001
Antonov An-28	6	1992	1997
Antonov An-74	5	1997	2005
Mil Mi-8T^[7]	1	Unknown	Unknown
Mil Mi-34^[8]	1	Unknown	Unknown
Tupolev Tu-134A	10	1993	2005
Tupolev Tu-154B	10	1994	2007
Tupolev Tu-154M	13	1994	2007	One crashed as Flight 2937

Accidents and incidents

2002 Überlingen mid-air collision: On July 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M (registered as RA-85816) was on a charter flight from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain. The plane was flying over southern Germany when it collided with a DHL International Boeing 757-200PF, flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium, over the city of Überlingen near the German-Swiss border. The DHL plane’s tail slammed into the fuselage of the Tupolev Tu-154. The collision killed the 2 crew members on board the Boeing 757, and all 69 passengers and crew on the Tupolev, mostly Russian schoolchildren from Bashkortostan on a vacation, organized by the local UNESCO committee, to the Costa Dorada region of Spain.^[9]

References

^ Bashkirian Airlines v. Federal Republic of Germany (in German). District Court of Kostanz. Retrieved on September 11, 2011. "BASHKIRIAN AIRLINES vertreten durch d. Generaldirektoren Flughafen d. Stadt UFA, Russische Föderation, 450056 Russland-UFA"
^ Information about Bashkirskie Avialinii at the Aviation Safety Network
^ Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank u. a.: jp airline-fleets international 2005/06. Zürich-Airport 2005, S. 542.
^ Airliner World, February 2007
^ "BAL – Bashkirian Airlines News Update". Ch-aviation.com. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
^ "Bashkirskie Avialinii". Rzjets.net.
^ "Bashkirian Airlines Mi-8".
^ "Bashkirian Airlines Mi-34". Jetphotos net. Retrieved 22 September 2006.
^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 30 April 2021.