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Ak Bars Aero - Wikipedia

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Ak Bars Aero
Ак Барс Аэро

IATA	ICAO	Call sign
2B	BGM	BUGAVIA

Founded

10 July 1953 (as Bugulminskoe Aviapredpriyatie)

Commenced operations

2010

Ceased operations

12 January 2015

Hubs

Bugulma Airport

Secondary hubs

Kazan International Airport

Parent company

Ak Bars Holdings

Headquarters

Bugulma Airport
Bugulma, Russia

Notes

recreated as UVT Aero

OJSC Ak Bars Aero (Russian: ОАО «Ак Барс Аэро»), formerly OJSC Bugulma Air Enterprise (Russian: ОАО «Бугульминское авиапредприятие»), was an airline with its head office at Bugulma Airport in Bugulma, Russia.^[1] It operated regional scheduled and charter passenger services. Its main base was Bugulma Airport.^[2]

History

The airline was formed in 1993 as Bugulma Air Enterprise from the former Aeroflot division based at Bugulma. The airline was renamed Ak Bars Aero in 2010.^[3]

Due to financial difficulties, the airline filed for bankruptcy and suspended scheduled passenger services from 12 January 2015 and planned to lease its fleet of 15 CRJ-200 aircraft to other airlines.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Destinations

As of February 2014, AK Bars Aero operated to the following destinations:^[6]

International destinations

Azerbaijan

Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport^[7]

Ukraine

Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport

Domestic destinations

Astrakhan Oblast

Astrakhan – Narimanovo Airport

Bashkortostan

Ufa – Ufa International Airport

Belgorod Oblast

Belgorod – Belgorod International Airport

Chuvashia

Cheboksary – Cheboksary Airport

Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk – Balandino Airport
Magnitogorsk – Magnitogorsk Airport

Krasnodar Krai

Sochi – Adler-Sochi International Airport

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad – Khrabrovo Airport

Kirov Oblast

Kirov – Pobedilovo Airport

Kursk Oblast

Kursk – Kursk Vostochny Airport^[8]

Mari El

Yoshkar-Ola – Yoshkar-Ola Airport

Mordovia

Saransk – Saransk Airport

Moscow / Moscow Oblast

Moscow – Domodedovo International Airport (secondary hub)

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod – Strigino Airport^[9]

Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport

Penza Oblast

Penza – Penza Airport

Perm Krai

Perm – Bolshoye Savino Airport

Rostov Oblast

Rostov-on-Don – Rostov-on-Don Airport^[10]

Samara Oblast

Samara – Kurumoch International Airport^[11]

Saratov Oblast

Saratov – Saratov Tsentralny Airport

St Petersburg / Leningrad Oblast

St Petersburg – Pulkovo International Airport

Stavropol Krai

Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport

Sverdlovsk Oblast

Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport

Tatarstan

Bugulma – Bugulma Airport (hub)
Kazan – Kazan International Airport (hub)
Nizhnekamsk / Naberezhnye Chelny – Begishevo Airport

Tyumen Oblast

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- Nizhnevartovsk – Nizhnevartovsk Airport
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Novy Urengoy – Novy Urengoy Airport

Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk – Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport

Fleet

The Bugulma Air Enterprise fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2012)

Fixed-wing aircraft fleet

Aircraft	In fleet	Orders	Passengers	Role	Notes
Bombardier CRJ200	16		50	Scheduled/ charter
Bombardier Challenger 600	1	—	11	VIP charter
Yakovlev Yak-40	10	—	11–14	VIP charter	3 more stored.

Helicopter fleet

Aircraft	In fleet	Orders	Passengers
Bell 407	unknown	1^[12]	6
Eurocopter EC135	—	1^[12]	TBA
Mil Mi-8	unknown	—	24
Robinson R44	unknown	2^[12]	3^[13]

References

^ "Main Archived 5 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine." Ak Bars Aero. Retrieved on 20 November 2013. "Bugulma, Airport" (in field in bottom of page where street address would be) – Address in Russian Archived 27 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine: "г. Казань, Аэропорт"
^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 90.
^ ^a ^b "AK Bars Aero Suspends Flights". Airliner World: 10. March 2015.
^ Информация для пассажиров и партнеров АК БАРС АЭРО (in Russian). Ak Bars Aero. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
^ "New Carrier for Tatarstan". Airliner World: 8. July 2015.
^ AK Bars Official timetable Updated 04.02.2014 Archived 15 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Авиакомпания "Ак Барс Аэро" начинает реализацию рейса Казань – Баку". Trend News Agency. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
^ "В аэропорту "Казань" открыли новый авиарейс в Курск". РосБизнесКонсалтинг. 22 October 2014. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
^ Магасумова, Роза (3 September 2013). "Аэропорт "Нижний Новгород" открывает прямые рейсы на Ростов-на-Дону". БИЗНЕС-ТАСС. Archived from the original on 3 September 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
^ Плохотниченко, Юрий (23 October 2012). ""Ак Барс Аэро" хочет открыть рейс Сочи – Ростов – Нижний Новгород". TRAVEL.RU. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
^ "НОВЫЕ РЕЙСЫ ИЗ САМАРЫ". АвиаПорт.Ru. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Aviaport digest
^ AK Bars Aero official website Archived 5 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Media related to Ak Bars Aero at Wikimedia Commons

Ak Bars Aero official website (in Russian)

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