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ZF
  
KTK

Company slogan
  
Fly to rest!

Headquarters
  
Moscow

Fleet size
  
14

KTK
  
AZUR AIR

Parent company
  
Anex Tourism Group

Founded
  
December 1995

Parent organization
  
Anex Tourism Group

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Hubs
  
Domodedovo International Airport

Subsidiaries
  
Azur Air Ukraine Azur Air Germany

Hub
  
Domodedovo International Airport

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Azur Air (Russian: Азур Эйр), formerly Katekavia, is a charter airline and former regional airline in Russia. Initially it was based out of Krasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport, the domestic airport serving Krasnoyarsk, and its destinations were all within the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Nowadays it mainly serves leisure and some domestic destinations.

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History

The airline started operations in 1995 and operates regional flights out of Krasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport and Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo Airport. The airline also operates charter services to Siberia and Yakutia.

It carried around 122,000 passengers in 2009, and in 2010 started to acquire larger aircraft, mainly the Tupolev Tu-134. As of 3 April 2014, it has three Tupolev Tu-134s.

In April 2014 the airline commenced scheduled flights between larger Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo Airport and further cities in Siberia: Surgut and Tomsk. The airline received international media and social media attention in 2014, when a video emerged of passengers on a scheduled flight from Igarka to Krasnoyarsk disembarking pre-departure to push their plane in temperatures of minus 52 degrees Celsius after its chassis froze.

In 2015, Katekavia was rebranded as a leisure carrier and renamed Azur Air. In December 2015, it has been confirmed that former owner UTair Aviation sold Azur Air to Turkish tourism company Anex Tourism Group which also bought Azur Air Ukraine, the former UTair-Ukraine, a few weeks earlier.

Destinations

As of April, 2015, Azur Air flies from its bases in Krasnoyarsk to charter routes, as well as to regional routes, which are:

Fleet

The Azur Air fleet consists of the following aircraft as of December 2016:

Accidents and incidents

  • On 3 August 2010, a Katekavia Antonov An-24 crashed on approach to Igarka Airport, killing twelve people. The crash was caused by pilot error. As a result of the crash, the Russian government started to investigate how Katekavia operated their flights.
  • On 26 February 2016, Boeing 767-300ER of Azur Air made an emergency landing in Tashkent International Airport
  • References

    Azur Air Wikipedia