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Samara Airlines

Airline based in Samara, Russia

Samara Airlines was an airline based in Samara, Russia. It operated scheduled and charter flights from Samara to destinations in Russia and other countries (mainly within the CIS) and charter flights to Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Spain, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. Its main base was at Kurumoch International Airport (KUF).2 It ceased to exist in 2008.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1996Founded1

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Samara Airlines T154 RA-85823
Photo: Juergen Lehle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Samara Airlines was an airline based in Samara, Russia. It operated scheduled and charter flights from Samara to destinations in Russia and other countries (mainly within the CIS) and charter flights to Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Spain, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. Its main base was at Kurumoch International Airport (KUF).2

The story

The Kuybyshev Aviation Enterprise was established in 1961 and on this basis 65 Squadron was formed and later transformed into Kuybyshev Joint Aviation Squadron (KuAO), Kuybyshev being the Soviet name of Samara. The privatisation of KuAO in 1993 resulted in the establishment of the Joint Stock Company Samara Airlines. It is owned by the State Property Committee (51%) and private and corporate holdings (49%). The airline used the call-sign "beryoza" (birch tree).

It had suspended operations at the end of September 2008 due to the AiRUnion collapse.

From Wikipedia’s article on Samara Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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Services

As of September 2005, Samara Airlines operated the following services:

Domestic scheduled destinations: Anapa, Arkhangelsk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow, Nadym, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Noyabrsk, Samara, Sochi, Saint Petersburg and Ufa.

International scheduled services: Almaty, Baku, Bukhara, Dushanbe, Gyumri, Khujand, Kyiv, Nakhichevan, Shymkent, Simferopol, Tashkent, Thessaloniki, Tianjin and Yerevan.

Fleet

The Samara Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of May 2008):

From Wikipedia’s article on Samara Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 2008Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1996Founded Founded in Samara1

Sources

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