OJSC Ak Bars Aero (), formerly OJSC Bugulma Air Enterprise (), was an airline with its head office at Bugulma Airport in Bugulma, Russia."Main ." Ak Bars Aero. Retrieved on 20 November 2013. "Bugulma, Airport" (in field in bottom of page where street address would be) – Address in Russian : "г. Казань, Аэропорт" 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:AK Bars Official timetable Updated 04.02.2014
International destinations
Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport
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 Aircraft In fleet Orders Passengers Role Notes Bombardier CRJ200 16 50 Scheduled/charter Bombardier Challenger 600 1 — 11VIP charter Yakovlev Yak-40 10 —11–14VIP charter3 more stored.
Helicopter fleet Aircraft In fleet Orders Passengers Notes Bell 407 unknown 1Aviaport digest 6 Eurocopter EC135 — 1 TBA Mil Mi-8 unknown — 24 Robinson R44 unknown 2 3AK Bars Aero official website
See also UVT Aero
References
External links
Ak Bars Aero official website