BAL Bashkirian Airlines
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BAL Bashkirian Airlines (Bashkirskie Avialinii) is an airline based in Ufa, Russia. It operates regional and trunk routes from Ufa and has added charter services to Europe, Asia and North Africa.
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[edit] Code Data
[edit] History
The airline was originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of Samara-based Aerovolga. It has 1513 employees. In 2006 its licence was revoked by the Russian safety agency FTOA. It was due to relaunch services in November 2006 following an inspection of one of its Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft in Iran, when FTOA ruled that safety legislation had been met and services could restart[2].
[edit] Incidents and accidents
On July, 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was involved in a mid-air collision with a DHL cargo plane. Everyone on both planes were killed.
[edit] Services
BAL Bashkirian Airlines operates the following services (at January 2005):
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Moscow, Nadym, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, St Petersburg, Surgut and Ufa.
BAL Bashkirian Airlines also operates charter flights to Sharm-el-Sheik, Hurghada, Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.
[edit] Fleet
The BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006):
[edit] References
- ^ Airline Codes
- ^ Airliner World, February 2007
- ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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