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Founded | 11 October 1992 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2007 | ||||||
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Focus cities | Ufa | ||||||
Fleet size | 21 (as of August 2006) | ||||||
Destinations | 17 (as of January 2005) | ||||||
Headquarters | Ufa, Russia | ||||||
Website | bal.ufanet.ru (Archive) |
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. 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.
The airline was originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of the Samara-based Aerovolga. It had 1,513 employees at the time of its dissolution. In 2006, its licence was revoked by the Russian safety agency FTOA.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 the FTOA ruled that safety legislation had been met and services could restart.
As of January 2005, BAL Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services:
BAL Bashkirian Airlines also operated charter flights to Sharm-el-Sheikh, Hurghada, Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.
The BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft, included the following marques, as of August 2006: