Ak Bars Aero Explained

Airline:	Ak Bars Aero Ак Барс Аэро
Iata:	2B
Icao:	BGM
Callsign:	BUGAVIA
Parent:	Ak Bars Holdings
Founded:	10 July 1953 (as Bugulminskoe Aviapredpriyatie)
Commenced:	2010
Ceased:	12 January 2015
Headquarters:	Bugulma Airport Bugulma, Russia
Hubs:	Bugulma Airport
Secondary Hubs:	Kazan International Airport
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.

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

• Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport^[7]

• 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	Notes
Bell 407	unknown	1^[12]	6
Eurocopter EC135	—	1	TBA
Mil Mi-8	unknown	—	24
Robinson R44	unknown	2	3^[13]

See also

• UVT Aero

External links

• Ak Bars Aero official website

Notes and References

1. "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"
2. News: Directory: World Airlines . . 90 . 3 April 2007.
3. AK Bars Aero Suspends Flights. Airliner World. March 2015. 10.
4. Web site: http://akbarsaero.ru/main/company/pr/news/informaciya_dlya_passazhirov_i_partnerov_ak_bars_aero/. ru:Информация для пассажиров и партнеров АК БАРС АЭРО. Ak Bars Aero. ru. 3 January 2015. dead. https://archive.today/20150103182217/http://akbarsaero.ru/main/company/pr/news/informaciya_dlya_passazhirov_i_partnerov_ak_bars_aero/. 3 January 2015.
5. New Carrier for Tatarstan. Airliner World. July 2015. 8.
6. http://www.akbarsaero.ru/en/main/flight_info/timetable/ AK Bars Official timetable Updated 04.02.2014
7. News: Авиакомпания "Ак Барс Аэро" начинает реализацию рейса Казань – Баку. 2 November 2012. Trend News Agency. 2 November 2012.
8. News: В аэропорту "Казань" открыли новый авиарейс в Курск. 22 October 2014. РосБизнесКонсалтинг. 22 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141103005136/http://rt.rbc.ru/tatarstan_freenews/22/10/2014/953809.shtml. 3 November 2014. dead.
9. News: Магасумова. Роза. Аэропорт "Нижний Новгород" открывает прямые рейсы на Ростов-на-Дону. 3 September 2013. БИЗНЕС-ТАСС. 3 September 2013. dead. https://archive.today/20130903075048/http://www.biztass.ru/news/id/83398. 3 September 2013.
10. News: Плохотниченко. Юрий. "Ак Барс Аэро" хочет открыть рейс Сочи – Ростов – Нижний Новгород. 24 October 2012. TRAVEL.RU. 23 October 2012.
11. News: НОВЫЕ РЕЙСЫ ИЗ САМАРЫ. 31 October 2012. АвиаПорт.Ru. 31 October 2012.
12. http://www.aviaport.ru/news/2011/10/03/222616.html Aviaport digest
13. http://akbarsaero.ru/glavnaya/o_kompanii/flot/robinson_r44/ AK Bars Aero official website