Private company

Sayakhat Airlines

Airline of Kazakhstan

Sayakhat Airlines or Sayakhat Air Company (Russian: Aвиационная Компания «Саяхат») was an airline based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It operated chartered cargo and passenger flights out of Almaty International Airport.2 It ceased to exist in 2012.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1989Founded1
Sayakhat Tupolev Tu-154 Karakas
Photo: Ercan Karakas, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons4

Sayakhat Airlines or Sayakhat Air Company (Russian: Aвиационная Компания «Саяхат») was an airline based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It operated chartered cargo and passenger flights out of Almaty International Airport.2

The story

The airline was founded in 1989 by Vladimir Kouropatenko and Nikolai Alexeyevich Kuznetsov as the first private airline company in Kazakhstan. Flight operations started in 1991.

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

Products and brands

The Sayakhat Airlines fleet included the following aircraft:

4 Ilyushin Il-76TD

3 Tupolev Tu-154M

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

Timeline

  1. 2012Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1989Founded Founded1

Sources

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