- Samara Airlines
Infobox Airline
airline = Samara Airlines
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fleet_size = 24
destinations = 29
IATA = E5
ICAO = BRZ
callsign = Beryoza
parent = State Property Committee (51%)
company_slogan =
founded =1961
headquarters = Samara,Russia
key_people =
hubs =Kurumoch International Airport
secondary_hubs =
focus_cities =
frequent_flyer =
lounge =
alliance =AiRUnion
website = http://www.samara-airlines.ru/Samara Airlines is an
airline based in Samara,Russia . It operates scheduled and charter flights from Samara to destinations in Russia and other countries (mainly within the CIS) and charter flights toAustria ,Turkey ,Cyprus ,Israel ,Spain andUnited Arab Emirates . Its main base is atKurumoch International Airport (KUF).Samara Airlines is a member of the Russian
AiRUnion alliance.History
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 theSoviet name of Samara. The privatisation of KuAO in1993 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%).Services
As of
September 2005 , Samara Airlines operates 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 andUfa .*International scheduled services:
Almaty ,Baku ,Bukhara ,Dushanbe ,Gyumri ,Khujand ,Kiev ,Nakhichevan ,Shymkent ,Simferopol ,Tashkent ,Tianjin andYerevan .Fleet
The Samara Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of
May 2008 ):References
External links
* [http://www.samara-airlines.ru/english/index.asp Samara Airlines]
* [http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=E5&al_op=1 Samara Airlines Fleet]
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