BAL Bashkirian Airlines

BAL Bashkirian Airlines (Russian: «Башкирские авиалинии», Baškirskije avialinii, Bashkir: «БАЛ Башҡортостан авиалиниялары», BAL Başqortostan avialiniyaları) was an airline with its head office on the property of Ufa Airport in Ufa, Russia.^[2] 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.^[3]

History[]

A BAL Bashkirian Airlines Antonov An-24RV in 1994

The airline was founded in 1991, originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of the Samara-based .^[4] It began to make permanent domestic, foreign connections and charter flights to Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.

In May 2007, Bashkirian Airlines reported the insolvency of the airline and ceased operations. It had 1,513 employees at the time of its dissolution.

The airline's successor was Air Bashkortostan.

Destinations[]

As of January 2005, BAL Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services:^{[citation needed]}

Fleet[]

A BAL Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M at Moscow in 2005

The BAL Bashkirian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:^{[citation needed]}

Accidents and incidents[]

• 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision: On July 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M (registered as RA-85816) 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 DHL plane’s tail slammed into the fuselage of the Tupolev Tu-154. 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.^[7]

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to BAL Bashkir Airlines.

• bal.ufanet.ru (Archive, 1999-2001)
• aircompanybal.ru (Archive) (in Russian)
• bal.ufanet.ru (Archive) (in Russian)
• "Russian airline's 'good safety record'," BBC