Samara Airlines

IATA	ICAO	Callsign
E5	BRZ	Beryoza

Founded

1961 (founded as Aeroflot, 1992 as Samara Airlines

Ceased operations

2008

Hubs

Kurumoch International Airport

Alliance

AiRUnion

Fleet size

Destinations

Parent company

State Property Committee (51%)

Headquarters

Samara, Russia

Website

http://www.samara-airlines.ru/

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).

Samara Airlines was 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 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).

Loading food onto a TU-134A3 at Kurumoch airport in Samara.

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

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, Kiev, Nakhichevan, Shymkent, Simferopol, Tashkent, Thessaloniki, Tianjin and Yerevan.

Fleet

Samara Airlines Tu-154M

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

**Samara Airlines**
Aircraft	Total	Passengers	Notes
Ilyushin Il-76TD	2
Tupolev Tu-134A	6
Tupolev Tu-154B2	2
Tupolev Tu-154M	10
Yakovlev Yak-42	4
Total	24

References

External links

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Samara Airlines Fleet

Members of AiRUnion

Domodedovo Airlines KrasAir Omskavia Samara Airlines Sibaviatrans

Airlines of Russia

International	Aeroflot (flag carrier) Red Wings Airlines Rossiya Airlines S7 Airlines Ural Airlines UTair Aviation VIM Airlines

Low-Cost	Pobeda

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Cargo	AirBridgeCargo ATRAN Aviacon Zitotrans Kosmos Airlines Shar Ink UTair Cargo Volga-Dnepr

Defunct	Dobrolet Domodedovo Airlines Donavia Estar Avia KAPO Avia Kirov Air Enterprise Kras Air Metrojet Orenair Transaero Tulpar Air UTair Express Vladivostok Air

Other	Babyflot

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