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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. It operated regional scheduled and charter passenger services. Its main base was Bugulma Airport.

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.

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.

Destinations

As of February 2014, AK Bars Aero operated to the following destinations:

International destinations

 Azerbaijan

• Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport

 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

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

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

Samara Oblast

• Samara – Kurumoch International Airport

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

Helicopter fleet

See also

• UVT Aero

References

1. "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"
2. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 90.
3. ^ "AK Bars Aero Suspends Flights". Airliner World: 10. March 2015.
4. 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.
5. "New Carrier for Tatarstan". Airliner World: 8. July 2015.
6. AK Bars Official timetable Updated 04.02.2014 Archived 15 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
7. "Авиакомпания "Ак Барс Аэро" начинает реализацию рейса Казань – Баку". Trend News Agency. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
8. "В аэропорту "Казань" открыли новый авиарейс в Курск". РосБизнесКонсалтинг. 22 October 2014. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
9. 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.
10. Плохотниченко, Юрий (23 October 2012). ""Ак Барс Аэро" хочет открыть рейс Сочи – Ростов – Нижний Новгород". TRAVEL.RU. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
11. "НОВЫЕ РЕЙСЫ ИЗ САМАРЫ". АвиаПорт.Ru. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
12. ^ Aviaport digest
13. AK Bars Aero official website Archived 5 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Ak Bars Aero at Wikimedia Commons

• Ak Bars Aero official website (in Russian)

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• Defunct airlines of Russia
• Former Aeroflot divisions
• Airlines established in 1953
• 1953 establishments in the Soviet Union
• Companies based in Tatarstan