Angara Airlines
| Angara Airlines Авиакомпания "Ангара" |
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.jpg) Antonov An-148-100E (RA-61710) |
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| IATA code : | IK |
| ICAO code : | AGU |
| Call sign : | SARMA |
| Founding: | 2000 |
| Seat: |
Irkutsk , Russia
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| Home airport : | Irkutsk airport |
| Passenger volume: | 416,351 (2017) |
| Freight volume: | 2,300 (2017) |
| Fleet size: | 28 + 3 orders |
| Aims: | national / international |
| Website: | https://angara.aero/en |
Angara Airlines ( Russian ЗАО Авиакомпания "Ангара" ) is a Russian airline based in Irkutsk .
history
The airline was founded in 2000 and emerged from the insolvent Baikal Airlines . In 2010 Angara Airlines merged with Irkutsk Avia. The airline is now a major player in the Siberian domestic market and is part of the Eastland Group of Companies, a holding company that operates in the air and water transport, tourism, and hotel and restaurant industries.
Angara Airlines offers scheduled flights to Siberia and other Russian regions from its home airport in Irkutsk and Novosibirsk-Tolmachovo airport , which is used as the second main base . International connections exist to Tokyo ( Narita Airport ), Manzhouli , Northeast China and Almaty , Kazakhstan . In addition to scheduled services, Angara Airlines is active in charter , VIP, freight and mail transport, SAR , preventive forest fire protection from the air and in monitoring high-voltage lines and oil pipelines . Tourist flights with Mi-8 are also offered in Buryatia and on Lake Baikal . For oil and gas extraction companies, Angara Airlines carries out personnel transport as a full service - from the city to the oil rig .
With a medically equipped Mi-8, the airline fulfills orders for the Irkutsk disaster medicine center. In addition, the airline offers the maintenance and repair of aircraft (mainly Antonov aircraft) for third-party customers.
The share in the regional air traffic market should be around 70%. According to its own information, Angara Airlines operates around 140 flights per month.
Destinations
- Tokyo - Tokyo Narita Airport
- Manzhouli - Manzhouli Airport
- Almaty - Almaty Airport
- Blagoveshchensk - Ignatievo airfield
- Bodajbo - Bodajbo Airfield
- Bratsk - Bratsk Airfield
- Tschara - Tschara airfield
- Chita - Kadala Airport
- Irkutsk - Irkutsk Airport
- Kirensk - Kirensk Airport (base from Mi-8)
- Krasnodar - Krasnodar Airport
- Lensk airfield
- Mama - Mama Airfield
- Mirny - Mirny Airfield
- Khabarovsk - Khabarovsk Airport
- Novosibirsk - Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport
- Ufa - Ufa Airport
- Ust-Kut - Ust-Kut Airport
- Yakutia - Talakan Airfield
- Yakutsk - Yakutsk Airport
- Jerbogatschon - Jerbogatschon airfield
- Kazan - Kazan Airport
- Sochi - Sochi Airport
- Nizhneudinsk - Nizhneudinsk airfield (base for An-2 and Mi-8)
- Route plan from flightradar24 (the connections entered here are only partially identical to https://angara.aero/en/maps/ )
fleet
The Angara Airlines fleet consists of:
| Aircraft | number | Passengers | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonov An-2 | 2 | 12 | |
| Antonov An-24 RW | 7th | 48 | |
| Antonov An-26-100 | 3 | 43 | |
| Antonov An-148 | 5 | 75 | 2 of which were taken over by the insolvent Polet Airlines |
| Mil Wed-8 | 11 | 22nd | thereof 1 Mi-8 AMT (medical module) |
| total | 28 |
In July 2017 it was announced that the airline had signed a letter of intent for 3 Irkut MC- 21-300s at the MAKS in Moscow. The aircraft are to be delivered from 2022.
Incidents
- Seven people died on July 11, 2011 near Streschewoi when an An-24 ditched on Flight 5007 on the Ob River .
- On June 27, 2019, an An-24 carried out an emergency landing in Nizhneangarsk after an engine failure , when it came off the runway and collided with the buildings of a water treatment plant. Of the 47 people on board the flight coming from Ulan-Ude , two, the commander and the flight engineer , did not survive the accident. The aircraft has been in the fleet since 2013.
- On October 18, 2019, an An-148 rolled five to seven meters from the runway after landing in the city of Mirny (Yakutia). There were no injuries. The plane was not damaged either.
See also
- List of airlines
- https://www.aex.ru/docs/3/2015/6/23/2258/ (extensive article on the 15th anniversary - Russian)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 236 kB) Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 236 kB) Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/277631/angara-adds-krasnoyarsk-almaty-route-from-june-2018/ - Translator. Retrieved March 18, 2018 .
- ^ Aerial Works. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Авиакомпании " Ангара " - 15 лет . ( aex.ru [accessed March 29, 2018]).
- ↑ О компании. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Airline information. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Aviation Fair Maks: Little new boost for the MS-21 . In: aeroTELEGRAPH . July 24, 2017 ( aerotelegraph.com [accessed March 19, 2018]).
- ↑ The Russian Federation's Civil Protection Ministry reported the number of passengers on board the plane that crashed in Buryatia , TASS, June 27, 2019
- ↑ In Buryatia, two people died in an emergency landing of an An-24 passenger aircraft , TASS, June 27, 2019
- ↑ Two crew members were killed in the emergency landing of the An-24 in Nizhneangarsk , Kommersant, June 27, 2019
- ↑ Самолет Ан-148 выкатился за пределы ВПП при посадке в городе Мирном. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .