Sayakhat Airlines Explained

Airline:	Sayakhat
Icao:	SAH
Callsign:	SAYAKHAT
Founded:	1989
Ceased:	2012
Headquarters:	Almaty, Kazakhstan
Hubs:	Almaty International Airport
Website:	http://www.sayakhat.kz/

Sayakhat Airlines or Sayakhat Air Company (ru|Aвиационная Компания «Саяхат») was an airline based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It operated chartered cargo and passenger flights out of Almaty International Airport.

History

The airline was founded in 1989 by Vladimir Kouropatenko and Nikolai Alexeyevich Kuznetsov as the first private airline company in Kazakhstan. Flight operations started in 1991.^[1]

Fleet

The Sayakhat Airlines fleet included the following aircraft:^[2]

• 4 Ilyushin Il-76TD
• 3 Tupolev Tu-154M

Notes and References

1. http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_public/airlines/central_asia/kazakhstan.htm Sayakhat Airlines at airlineupdate.com
2. Web site: About company . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120220170442/http://www.sayakhat.kz/page.php?page_id=36&lang=2 . 20 February 2012 . sayakhat.kz.