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Russian airline
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.2 It ceased to exist in 2015.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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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.2
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.
From Wikipedia’s article on Ak Bars Aero, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
As of February 2014, AK Bars Aero operated to the following destinations:
Azerbaijan
Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport
Ukraine
Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport
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
Tyumen Oblast
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Nizhnevartovsk – Nizhnevartovsk Airport
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Novy Urengoy – Novy Urengoy Airport
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Ulyanovsk – Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport
The Bugulma Air Enterprise fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of December 2012)
From Wikipedia’s article on Ak Bars Aero, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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