Federal State Unitary Enterprise Airline Bashkir Airlines (Airline "BAL")- a former Russian airline with headquarters at the airport in Ufa. She worked on regional and main routes from Ufa and performed charter flights to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The company was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2007.
Story
The enterprise was organized in 1991 on the basis of the Ufa United Aviation Squadron, separated from the Volga Region Directorate civil aviation.
In 2000, the airport was separated from the airline enterprise and from that moment on, Bashkir Airlines and Ufa International Airport began to operate independently.
Directions
The airline was performing regular and charter flights from Ufa to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Sochi, Anapa, Simferopol, Krasnodar, Rostov, Nadym, Novy Urengoy, Nizhnevartovsk, Surgut, Istanbul, Sharjah, Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada.
Fleet
The airline operated the following types of aircraft:
- Aircraft
- Helicopters
Accidents and disasters
On the night of July 1-2, 2002, a Tu-154M passenger plane operating a flight 2937 Bashkir Airlines, collided in mid-air with a cargo Boeing 757, DHL flight 611 due to a control manager error air traffic the Swiss company Skyguide and the erroneous actions of the Tu-154M crew. The collision took place near the city of Uberlingen, near Lake Constance (Germany). The crash killed everyone on board both planes (71 people, including 52 children).
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An excerpt characterizing Bashkir Airlines
For about three minutes everyone was silent. “Certainly!” Natasha whispered and didn’t finish... Suddenly Sonya moved away the mirror she was holding and covered her eyes with her hand.- Oh, Natasha! - she said.
– Did you see it? Did you see it? What did you see? – Natasha screamed, holding up the mirror.
Sonya didn’t see anything, she just wanted to blink her eyes and get up when she heard Natasha’s voice saying “definitely”... She didn’t want to deceive either Dunyasha or Natasha, and it was hard to sit. She herself did not know how or why a cry escaped her when she covered her eyes with her hand.
– Did you see him? – Natasha asked, grabbing her hand.
- Yes. Wait... I... saw him,” Sonya said involuntarily, not yet knowing who Natasha meant by the word “him”: him - Nikolai or him - Andrey.
“But why shouldn’t I say what I saw? After all, others see! And who can convict me of what I saw or did not see? flashed through Sonya's head.
“Yes, I saw him,” she said.
- How? How? Is it standing or lying down?
- No, I saw... Then there was nothing, suddenly I see that he is lying.
– Andrey is lying down? He is sick? – Natasha asked, looking at her friend with fearful, stopped eyes.
- No, on the contrary, - on the contrary, a cheerful face, and he turned to me - and at that moment as she spoke, it seemed to her that she saw what she was saying.
- Well, then, Sonya?...
– I didn’t notice something blue and red here...
- Sonya! when will he return? When I see him! My God, how I’m afraid for him and for myself, and for everything I’m afraid...” Natasha spoke, and without answering a word to Sonya’s consolations, she went to bed and long after the candle had been put out, with her eyes open, she lay motionless on the bed and looked at the frosty moonlight through the frozen windows.
Soon after Christmas, Nikolai announced to his mother his love for Sonya and his firm decision to marry her. The Countess, who had long noticed what was happening between Sonya and Nikolai and was expecting this explanation, silently listened to his words and told her son that he could marry whomever he wanted; but that neither she nor his father would give him his blessing for such a marriage. For the first time, Nikolai felt that his mother was unhappy with him, that despite all her love for him, she would not give in to him. She, coldly and without looking at her son, sent for her husband; and when he arrived, the countess wanted to briefly and coldly tell him what was the matter in the presence of Nicholas, but she could not resist: she cried tears of frustration and left the room. The old count began to hesitantly admonish Nicholas and ask him to abandon his intention. Nicholas replied that he could not change his word, and the father, sighing and obviously embarrassed, very soon interrupted his speech and went to the countess. In all his clashes with his son, the count was never left with the consciousness of his guilt towards him for the breakdown of affairs, and therefore he could not be angry with his son for refusing to marry a rich bride and for choosing the dowryless Sonya - only in this case did he more vividly remember what, if things weren’t upset, it would be impossible to wish for a better wife for Nikolai than Sonya; and that only he and his Mitenka and his irresistible habits are to blame for the disorder of affairs.
Bashkir Airlines
In 1998, Bashkir Airlines turned 65 years old.
The official date of formation of the Bashkir Airlines airline is considered to be July 7, 1933, when an independent detachment of agricultural aviation was formed on the territory of our republic, part of which was engaged in mail delivery. This event was preceded by the arrival in 1932 of the aviation unit of the Middle Volga Agricultural Air Base in Ufa, the capital of the Republic.
The pioneers of Ufa aviation unanimously set about solving pressing problems, and there were many of them. This includes aerochemical work to combat pests of agricultural crops, aerial sowing of winter crops, and the provision of emergency medical care.
But the history preceding the creation of Bashkir aviation began its chronology long before 1933. The first mention of aviation can be found in newspapers during the Civil War.
Bashkir Airlines, the national airline of the Republic of Bashkortostan, is based in international airport Ufa, located in the center Russian Federation. The company's priority is, first and foremost, the interests of its clients. Bashkir Airlines strives to reach an international level of service, using the best practices of foreign and domestic companies. Throughout its long history, the airline has followed the path of consistent, dynamic development, high level flight safety and quality passenger service. Rest assured that your trip will be at the highest level.
Author: Irina NIKOLENKO
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The decline of the BAL airline began with the tragedy over Lake Constance. Oddly enough, it was the crash of this plane that provoked the fall of an entire enterprise into the abyss. The circumstances of the disaster proved that the Bashkir crew was not at fault. By the grace of the Swiss air traffic control service, BAL Airlines suffered colossal damage, but neither at the republican nor at the Russian level did anyone consider it their duty to take care of compensating the cost of the crashed TU-154. But behind this seemingly (against the background of human losses) mercantile interest were the fates of hundreds of people who first suffered due to delays in wages, and were subsequently left without a piece of bread. But this tragedy is only one link in the chain of circumstances in which the republic’s civil aviation found itself captive. Probably, someone needed it, or rather, it was beneficial: to bankrupt a stable, reliable (safety was above all) and powerful (in terms of flight geography) airline. And those who could intervene and influence simply did not care about the collapse of BAL.
As a result, we have what we have: for example, a museum of the history of civil aviation of the republic in the administrative building of the Ufa airport, which schoolchildren often visit with interest, admiring the former glory of the wings of Bashkiria. By the way, it was in the Ufa air squad that there was a very serious training complex, in which pilots from all over the Volga region came to train. I’m not sure what the guides talk about this, but I still want to give a couple of examples indicating the height of professionalism of Bashkir aviators.
During landing approach, the TU-154 did not extend one landing gear. Crew commander Alik Utyashev decided to land the plane. The runway was “occupied” by fire trucks and ambulances... The plane landed, as they say, without a hitch. The passengers did not even have time to get scared, since most likely they did not know about what had happened. The commander stood at the gangway and, watching how everyone left the board joyfully and unharmed, remarked, not without humor:
At least I would kiss one young lady!
But he was soon “kissed” by the Volga, a car that was presented to him as a reward for the heroism shown during the landing of a faulty plane. Once, while towing, the hitch broke and hit my jaw: both rows of teeth were lost. Then the drivers greeted him for a long time and joked: “Well, pilot, which of us has a more dangerous job?”
Another emergency occurred with a military transport aircraft, whose cabin depressurized at high altitude and the pilots lost consciousness. The car circled over Ufa, threatening to collapse on the city at any moment. Flight director Ivan Andreev did the impossible: from the ground, via radio communication, he managed to bring the “knocked out” people back to their senses. This was communicated easily and quickly, and when the plane landed and the air traffic controller left the office, his snow-white uniform shirt had to be wrung out as if it had been washed.
And how many other such specialists increased the glory of Bashkir aviation and worked for the benefit of people, and then for no reason found themselves out of work. Now our pilots have scattered among the surviving or newly formed airlines, into which the incomparable Aeroflot was fragmented, like Ancient Rus' once was into appanage principalities. The country at that time was losing power and strength, and the air fleet is now safe and reliable.
However, there is still gunpowder in the flasks. There is the Bashkortostan airline, which is registered on the territory of the republic as a subsidiary of VIM-AVIA and, therefore, pays taxes to the republican budget. True, planes do not take off from our airport, but from Moscow. But flight crew I haven’t transferred yet, having families in Ufa, pilots work in other cities. And Bashkir passengers fly on Orenburg, Tyumen, and Moscow planes. And at the same time I remember how we, stepping on board our own plane in some United Arab Emirates, believed that we were almost in our native land. But this is all lyrics.
An average airline with 15 - 20 aircraft receives income, and therefore pays incomparably more taxes, than any airport in Russia, except, of course, the giant Moscow air hub. If you look around, even a person who does not fly very often will easily notice how, for example, Orenburg Airlines, which was quite modest in former times, is thriving, which has easily penetrated into our former air space and are successfully developing, largely thanks to the funds raised from the transportation of Bashkir passengers. The residents of Orenburg, having fifteen Boeing-737s, have already purchased a third aircraft - a Boeing-777 and began to feel more confident not only in the Russian skies. Our other neighbor, Tatarstan Airlines, just recently signed a number of commercial agreements with Turkish Airlines, and now Kazan passengers will be able to fly both within Russia and around the world with discounts on Tatarstan Airlines tickets for Turkish flights. All this will make it possible to turn Kazan airport into a hub for transport communications of federal importance.
It is clear that having your own airline allows you to regulate ticket prices, but in the meantime in Ufa they are growing rapidly, which is especially sad at the height of the holiday season. You can even fly to Moscow in the cheapest economy class for about seven thousand rubles, which is only an hour and a half of flight time. It’s scary to imagine how much a ticket to some foreign darkness or to the Kuril Islands costs.
And one more sad nuance: Ufa airport is forced to noticeably lag behind in development, without having a base airline, since without it it is impossible to sharply increase profitability and plan an optimal schedule. All these problems can be solved only if the republic has its own carrier. It has become almost impossible to create an airline from scratch in our country. But trying to develop something that has not yet been completely achieved is more realistic. In the meantime, all kinds of planes land and take off at the Ufa airport - just not those of the Bashkir airline.
Published: 06/09/12 (02:19) newspaper-- Republic of Bashkortostan
