# Ak Bars Aero

OJSC Ak Bars Aero (Russian: ОАО «Ак Барс Аэро»), formerly OJSC Bugulma Air Enterprise (Russian: ОАО «Бугульминское авиапредприятие»), was an airline with its head office at Bugulma Airport in Bugulma, Russia. It operated regional scheduled and charter passenger services. Its main base was Bugulma Airport.

## 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.

## Destinations

As of February 2014, AK Bars Aero operated to the following destinations:

### International destinations
#### Azerbaijan

* Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport

#### Ukraine

* Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport

### Domestic destinations
#### Astrakhan Oblast

* Astrakhan – Narimanovo Airport

#### Bashkortostan

* Ufa – Ufa International Airport

#### Belgorod Oblast

* Belgorod – Belgorod International Airport

#### Chuvashia

* Cheboksary – Cheboksary Airport

#### Chelyabinsk Oblast

* Chelyabinsk – Balandino Airport
* Magnitogorsk – Magnitogorsk Airport

#### Krasnodar Krai

* Sochi – Adler-Sochi International Airport

#### Kaliningrad Oblast

* Kaliningrad – Khrabrovo Airport

#### Kirov Oblast

* Kirov – Pobedilovo Airport

#### Kursk Oblast

* Kursk – Kursk Vostochny Airport

#### Mari El

* Yoshkar-Ola – Yoshkar-Ola Airport

#### Mordovia

* Saransk – Saransk Airport

#### Moscow / Moscow Oblast

* Moscow – Domodedovo International Airport (secondary hub)

#### Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

* Nizhny Novgorod – Strigino Airport

#### Novosibirsk Oblast

* Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport

#### Penza Oblast

* Penza – Penza Airport

#### Perm Krai

* Perm – Bolshoye Savino Airport

#### Rostov Oblast

* Rostov-on-Don – Rostov-on-Don Airport

#### Samara Oblast

* Samara – Kurumoch International Airport

#### Saratov Oblast

* Saratov – Saratov Tsentralny Airport

#### St Petersburg / Leningrad Oblast

* St Petersburg – Pulkovo International Airport

#### Stavropol Krai

* Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport

#### Sverdlovsk Oblast

* Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport

#### Tatarstan

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

#### Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

** Nizhnevartovsk – Nizhnevartovsk Airport

#### Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

** Novy Urengoy – Novy Urengoy Airport

#### Ulyanovsk Oblast

* Ulyanovsk – Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport

## Fleet

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 |
| 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 |
| Bell 407 | unknown | 1 | 6 |
| Eurocopter EC135 | — | 1 | TBA |
| Mil Mi-8 | unknown | — | 24 |
| Robinson R44 | unknown | 2 | 3 |