BAL Bashkirian Airlines
BAL Bashkirian Airlines 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.
History
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 In October 2006, its licence was revoked by the Russian safety agency FTOA. It was due to relaunch services in December 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. The restart never happened.Destinations
As of January 2005, BAL Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services:| City | Country | Airport | Notes |
| Baku | Azerbaijan | Heydar Aliyev International Airport | |
| Barcelona | Spain | Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport | |
| Cairo | Egypt | Cairo International Airport | |
| Dushanbe | Tajikistan | Dushanbe International Airport | |
| Hurghada | Egypt | Hurghada International Airport | |
| Istanbul | Turkey | Istanbul Atatürk Airport | |
| Moscow | Russia | Moscow Domodedovo Airport | |
| Nadym | Russia | Nadym Airport | |
| Nizhnevartovsk | Russia | Nizhnevartovsk Airport | |
| Novy Urengoy | Russia | Novy Urengoy Airport | |
| Saint Petersburg | Russia | Pulkovo Airport | |
| Sharm El Sheikh | Egypt | Sharm El Sheikh International Airport | |
| Surgut | Russia | Surgut International Airport | |
| Tunis | Tunisia | Tunis–Carthage International Airport | |
| Ufa | Russia | Ufa International Airport | |
| Yerevan | Armenia | Zvartnots International Airport |
Fleet
The BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:| Aircraft | Total | Passengers | Notes |
| Antonov An-24 | 4 | - | |
| Antonov An-74 | 4 | - | |
| Tupolev Tu-134A | 8 | - | |
| Tupolev Tu-154M | 8 | - | |
| Total | 24 |
Accidents and incidents
- Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 : Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M was on a charter flight from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain. The plane was flying over southern Germany when it collided with a DHL Boeing 757-200PF, flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium, over the city of Überlingen near the German-Swiss border. The collision killed the 2 crew members on board the Boeing 757, and all 69 passengers and crew on the Tupolev, mostly Russian schoolchildren from Bashkortostan on a vacation, organized by the local UNESCO committee, to the Costa Dorada region of Spain.