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Z9
  
BEK

Hubs
  
Oral Ak Zhol Airport

Destinations
  
19

Founded
  
2011

Hub
  
Oral Ak Zhol Airport

BEK
  
BEKAIR

Focus cities
  
Almaty

Headquarters
  
Oral

Fleet size
  
7

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Commenced operations
  
September 1, 2011 (2011-09-01)

bek air fokker 100 ura tse takeoff from uralsk int airport


Bek Air is an airline in Kazakhstan. Bek Air was founded in 1999 as a business jet operator. In 2008, Bek Air purchased stock of shares in Oral Ak Zhol Airport which is currently a base airport for the company. Bek Air has committed to investing KZT10 million a month in order to reconstruct the airport's runway which is in poor condition.

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Bek air f100 emergency landing on uacc mar 27 2016


Destinations

Bek Air's destinations include :

 Kazakhstan
  • Aktau - Aktau Airport
  • Aktobe - Aktobe Airport
  • Almaty - Almaty International Airport
  • Astana - Astana Airport
  • Atyrau - Atyrau Airport
  • Karaganda - Sary-Arka Airport
  • Kostanay - Kostanay Airport
  • Kyzylorda - Kyzylorda Airport
  • Oral - Oral Ak Zhol Airport
  • Oskemen - Oskemen Airport
  • Pavlodar - Pavlodar Airport
  • Shymkent - Shymkent Airport
  • Zhezkazgan - Zhezkazgan Airport
  • Fleet

    In July 2014 (2014-07), during the Farnborough Air Show, it was announced that Bek Air will take delivery of seven 103-seater long-range Sukhoi Superjet 100s, with the first three of them expected to enter the fleet in 2015.

    In April 2016, Bek Air purchased an ex Sri-Lankan Airlines A340-300.

    In February 2017, Bek Air purchased two A340-300s from Olympic Airlines, which had been stored in Athens for 8 years.

    In the past Bek Air operated a fleet of Yakovlev Yak-40, Tupolev Tu-154, BAC One-Eleven and Dassault Falcon 20 (in VIP configuration). Bek Air has recently acquired its own Fokker 100 after initially leasing aircraft from InvestAvia. Currently Bek Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:

    Please note, the A340 seat counts are what the previous operators had in, as there is no information on the current seat counts.

    References

    Bek Air Wikipedia