BAL Bashkirian Airlines

BAL Bashkirian Airlines (Russian: «Башкирские авиалинии», Baškirskije avialinii, Bashkir: «БАЛ Башҡортостан авиалиниялары», BAL Başqortostan avialiniyaları) was an airline with its head office on the property of Ufa Airport in Ufa, Russia.[2] It operated regional and trunk routes from Ufa and charter services to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The company was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2007.[3]

BAL Bashkirian Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
V9 BTC BRAVO TANGO CHARLIE[1]
Founded1991
Commenced operationsOctober 11, 1992
Ceased operationsMay 2007
Operating basesUfa International Airport
Secondary hubsMoscow Domodedovo Airport
Fleet size33
Destinations18
HeadquartersUfa, Russia
Websitebal.ufanet.ru

History
A BAL Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M at Moscow in 2005

The airline was founded in 1991, originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of the Samara-based Aerovolga. It began to make permanent domestic, foreign connections and charter flights to Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.

In October 2006, its licence was revoked by the Russian safety agency FTOA and only returned 2 of their 12 aircraft after demonstrating intense security renovations. It was due to relaunch services in December 2006 following an inspection of one of its Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft in Iran, when the FTOA ruled that safety legislation had been met and services could restart.[4] The restart never happened.

In May 2007, Bashkirian Airlines reported the insolvency of the airline and ceased operations. It had 1,513 employees at the time of its dissolution.

The airline's successor was Air Bashkortostan.

Destinations

As of January 2005, BAL Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services:

Country City Airport Notes
ArmeniaYerevanZvartnots International AirportCharter
AzerbaijanBakuHeydar Aliyev International Airport
EgyptCairoCairo International AirportCharter
EgyptHurghadaHurghada International AirportCharter
EgyptSharm El SheikhSharm El Sheikh International AirportCharter
FranceParisCharles de Gaulle Airport
NetherlandsAmsterdamAmsterdam Airport Schiphol
RussiaMoscowMoscow Domodedovo AirportHub
RussiaNadymNadym Airport
RussiaNizhnevartovskNizhnevartovsk Airport
RussiaNovy UrengoyNovy Urengoy Airport
RussiaSaint PetersburgPulkovo Airport
RussiaSurgutSurgut International Airport
RussiaUfaUfa International AirportHub
SpainBarcelonaJosep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport
TajikistanDushanbeDushanbe International Airport
TurkeyIstanbulIstanbul Atatürk Airport
TunisiaTunisTunis–Carthage International AirportCharter

Fleet
A BAL Bashkirian Airlines Antonov An-24RV in 1994

The BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:

BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers Notes
Antonov An-24B 3 50
Antonov An-24RV 2 —
Antonov An-74 4 52
Mil Mi-8 1 24 [5]
Mil Mi-34 1 4 [6]
Tupolev Tu-134A 5 84
Tupolev Tu-154B 3 —
Tupolev Tu-154M 14 —

Accidents and incidents
  • Überlingen mid-air collision: On July 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M (registered as RA-85816) was on a charter flight from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain. The plane was flying over southern Germany when it collided with a DHL Boeing 757-200PF, flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium, over the city of Überlingen near the German-Swiss border. The collision killed the 2 crew members on board the Boeing 757, and all 69 passengers and crew on the Tupolev, mostly Russian schoolchildren from Bashkortostan on a vacation, organized by the local UNESCO committee, to the Costa Dorada region of Spain.

References
  1. Airline Codes
  2. Bashkirian Airlines v. Federal Republic of Germany (in German). District Court of Kostanz. Retrieved on September 11, 2011. "BASHKIRIAN AIRLINES vertreten durch d. Generaldirektoren Flughafen d. Stadt UFA, Russische Föderation, 450056 Russland-UFA"
  3. Information about Bashkirskie Avialinii at the Aviation Safety Network
  4. Airliner World, February 2007
  5. "Bashkirian Airlines Mi-8".
  6. "Bashkirian Airlines Mi-34". Jetphotos net. Retrieved September 22, 2006.
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