BAL Bashkirian Airlines

BAL Bashkirian Airlines (Bashkirskie Avialinii) was an airline based in Ufa, Russia. It operated regional and trunk routes from Ufa and has added charter services to Europe, Asia and North Africa. It has filed for bankruptcy and has suspended operations in April 2007.

Code Data

• IATA Code: V9
• ICAO Code: BTC
• Callsign: Bashkirian

History

The airline was originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of Samara-based Aerovolga. It had 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 In 2006 its licence was revoked by the Russian safety agency FTOA.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.

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 died.

Destinations

BAL Bashkirian Airlines operates the following services (at January 2005):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Moscow, Nadym, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, Saint Petersburg, Surgut and Ufa.
• International scheduled destinations: Baku, Dushanbe, Istanbul and Yerevan.

BAL Bashkirian Airlines also operates charter flights to Sharm-el-Sheik, Hurghada, Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.

Fleet

The BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006):

• 3 Antonov An-24
• 3 Tupolev Tu-134A
• 6 Tupolev Tu-154M

A total of 12 Aircraft.

References

External links

• " Russian airline's 'good safety record'," BBC