Ak Bars Aero

{{Infobox airline

| airline = Ak Bars Aero
Ак Барс Аэро

| logo = Ak_Bars_Aero_eng_logo.jpg

| logo_size = 250px

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| IATA = 2B

| ICAO = BGM

| callsign = BUGAVIA

| parent = Ak Bars Holdings

| company_slogan =

| founded = 10 July 1953 (as Bugulminskoe Aviapredpriyatie)

| commenced = 2010

| ceased = 12 January 2015

| headquarters = Bugulma Airport
Bugulma, Russia

| key_people =

| hubs = Bugulma Airport

| secondary_hubs = Kazan International Airport

| focus_cities =

| frequent_flyer =

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| website =

| notes = recreated as UVT Aero

}}

OJSC Ak Bars Aero ({{langx|ru|ОАО «Ак Барс Аэро»}}), formerly OJSC Bugulma Air Enterprise ({{langx|ru|ОАО «Бугульминское авиапредприятие»}}), was an airline with its head office at Bugulma Airport in Bugulma, Russia."[http://www.akbarsaero.ru/en/ Main] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305213732/http://www.akbarsaero.ru/en/ |date=5 March 2011 }}." Ak Bars Aero. Retrieved on 20 November 2013. "Bugulma, Airport" (in field in bottom of page where street address would be) – [http://www.akbarsaero.ru/ Address in Russian] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127040059/http://www.akbarsaero.ru/ |date=27 November 2013 }}: "г. Казань, Аэропорт" It operated regional scheduled and charter passenger services. Its main base was Bugulma Airport.{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 90 | date= 3 April 2007}}

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.{{cite journal|title=AK Bars Aero Suspends Flights|journal=Airliner World|date=March 2015|page=10}}{{cite web|url=http://akbarsaero.ru/main/company/pr/news/informaciya_dlya_passazhirov_i_partnerov_ak_bars_aero/|script-title=ru:Информация для пассажиров и партнеров АК БАРС АЭРО|publisher=Ak Bars Aero|language=ru|access-date=3 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150103182217/http://akbarsaero.ru/main/company/pr/news/informaciya_dlya_passazhirov_i_partnerov_ak_bars_aero/|archive-date=3 January 2015}}{{cite journal|title=New Carrier for Tatarstan|journal=Airliner World|date=July 2015|page=8}}

Destinations

As of February 2014, AK Bars Aero operated to the following destinations:[http://www.akbarsaero.ru/en/main/flight_info/timetable/ AK Bars Official timetable Updated 04.02.2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515025222/http://akbarsaero.ru/en/main/flight_info/timetable/ |date=15 May 2011 }}

=International destinations=

;{{AZE}}

Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport{{cite news|title=Авиакомпания "Ак Барс Аэро" начинает реализацию рейса Казань – Баку|url=http://www.trend.az/capital/business/2083338.html|access-date=2 November 2012|newspaper=Trend News Agency|date=2 November 2012}}

;{{UKR}}

Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport

=Domestic destinations=

;{{flagicon|Astrakhan Oblast}} Astrakhan Oblast

Astrakhan – Narimanovo Airport

;{{flagicon|Bashkortostan}} Bashkortostan

Ufa – Ufa International Airport

;{{flagicon|Belgorod Oblast}} Belgorod Oblast

Belgorod – Belgorod International Airport

;{{flagicon|Chuvashia}} Chuvashia

Cheboksary – Cheboksary Airport

;{{flagicon|Chelyabinsk Oblast}} Chelyabinsk Oblast

Chelyabinsk – Balandino Airport
Magnitogorsk – Magnitogorsk Airport

;{{flagicon|Krasnodar Krai}} Krasnodar Krai

Sochi – Adler-Sochi International Airport

;{{flagicon|Kaliningrad Oblast}} Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad – Khrabrovo Airport

;{{flagicon|Kirov Oblast}} Kirov Oblast

Kirov – Pobedilovo Airport

;{{flagicon|Kursk Oblast}} Kursk Oblast

Kursk – Kursk Vostochny Airport{{cite news|title=В аэропорту "Казань" открыли новый авиарейс в Курск|url=http://rt.rbc.ru/tatarstan_freenews/22/10/2014/953809.shtml|access-date=22 October 2014|agency=РосБизнесКонсалтинг|date=22 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103005136/http://rt.rbc.ru/tatarstan_freenews/22/10/2014/953809.shtml|archive-date=3 November 2014|url-status=dead}}

;{{flagicon|Mari El}} Mari El

Yoshkar-Ola – Yoshkar-Ola Airport

;{{flagicon|Mordovia}} Mordovia

Saransk – Saransk Airport

;{{flagicon|Moscow}} Moscow / {{flagicon|Moscow Oblast}} Moscow Oblast

Moscow – Domodedovo International Airport (secondary hub)

;{{flagicon|Nizhny Novgorod Oblast}} Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod – Strigino Airport{{cite news|last=Магасумова|first=Роза|title=Аэропорт "Нижний Новгород" открывает прямые рейсы на Ростов-на-Дону|url=http://www.biztass.ru/news/id/83398|access-date=3 September 2013|newspaper=БИЗНЕС-ТАСС|date=3 September 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130903075048/http://www.biztass.ru/news/id/83398|archive-date=3 September 2013}}

;{{flagicon|Novosibirsk Oblast}} Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport

;{{flagicon|Penza Oblast}} Penza Oblast

Penza – Penza Airport

;{{flagicon|Perm Krai}} Perm Krai

Perm – Bolshoye Savino Airport

;{{flagicon|Rostov Oblast}} Rostov Oblast

Rostov-on-Don – Rostov-on-Don Airport{{cite news|last=Плохотниченко|first=Юрий|title="Ак Барс Аэро" хочет открыть рейс Сочи – Ростов – Нижний Новгород|url=http://www.travel.ru/news/2012/10/23/207321.html|access-date=24 October 2012|newspaper=TRAVEL.RU|date=23 October 2012}}

;{{flagicon|Samara Oblast}} Samara Oblast

Samara – Kurumoch International Airport{{cite news|title=НОВЫЕ РЕЙСЫ ИЗ САМАРЫ|url=http://www.aviaport.ru/digest/2012/10/31/243291.html|access-date=31 October 2012|newspaper=АвиаПорт.Ru|date=31 October 2012}}

;{{flagicon|Saratov Oblast}} Saratov Oblast

Saratov – Saratov Tsentralny Airport

;{{flagicon|Saint Petersburg}} St Petersburg / {{flagicon|Leningrad Oblast}} Leningrad Oblast

St Petersburg – Pulkovo International Airport

;{{flagicon|Stavropol Krai}} Stavropol Krai

Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport

;{{flagicon|Sverdlovsk Oblast}} Sverdlovsk Oblast

Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport

;{{flagicon|Tatarstan}} Tatarstan

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

;{{flagicon|Tyumen Oblast}} Tyumen Oblast

;{{flagicon|Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug}} Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Nizhnevartovsk – Nizhnevartovsk Airport
;{{flagicon|Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug}} Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Novy Urengoy – Novy Urengoy Airport

;{{flagicon|Ulyanovsk Oblast}} Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk – Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport

Fleet

File:Ak Bars Aero CRJ.jpg]]

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
class="wikitable"
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
class="wikitable"
Bell 407	unknown	1[http://www.aviaport.ru/news/2011/10/03/222616.html Aviaport digest]	6
Eurocopter EC135	—	1	TBA
Mil Mi-8	unknown	—	24
Robinson R44	unknown	2	3[http://akbarsaero.ru/glavnaya/o_kompanii/flot/robinson_r44/ AK Bars Aero official website] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105144326/http://akbarsaero.ru/glavnaya/o_kompanii/flot/robinson_r44/ \|date=5 January 2012 }}