Azur Air


Azur Air, formerly Katekavia and stylised as azurair, 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.

History

Katekavia

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 had 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.

Azur Air

In 2015, Katekavia handed over its fleet to Turukhan Airlines. 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.
In February 2018, the Russian aviation authority RosAviatsiya announced that Azur Air faces a suspension of its operational licence by 20 March 2018 if the carrier does not resolve alleged safety violations by then. As this would lead to the shut down of all flight operations, Russian tourism agency RosTourism advised tour operators to not sell tickets on Azur Air for the time being. All restrictions by RosAviatsiya and RosTourism were lifted on 20 March 2018 as a result of controls on technical and documental details.

Destinations

As of November 2018, Azur Air operates to the following destinations:
CountryCityAirportNotesRef.
BulgariaBurgasBurgas Airport
ChinaSanyaSanya Phoenix International Airport
CubaVaraderoJuan Gualberto Gómez Airport
CyprusLarnacaLarnaca International Airport
Dominican RepublicPuerto PlataGregorio Luperón International Airport
Dominican RepublicPunta CanaPunta Cana International Airport
Dominican RepublicLa RomanaLa Romana International Airport
GreeceHeraklionHeraklion International Airport
GreeceRhodesRhodes International Airport
IndiaGoaGoa International Airport
MexicoCancúnCancún International Airport
MontenegroTivatTivat Airport
MoroccoAgadirAgadir–Al Massira Airport
RussiaArkhangelskTalagi Airport
RussiaBarnaulBarnaul Airport
RussiaBelgorodBelgorod International Airport
RussiaChelyabinskChelyabinsk Airport
RussiaIrkutskIrkutsk International Airport
RussiaKaliningradKhrabrovo Airport
RussiaKalugaKaluga Airport
RussiaKazanKazan International Airport
RussiaKemerovoKemerovo International Airport
RussiaKrasnodarKrasnodar International Airport
RussiaKrasnoyarskYemelyanovo International Airport
RussiaMineralnye VodyMineralnye Vody Airport
RussiaMoscowVnukovo International Airport
RussiaMurmanskMurmansk Airport
RussiaNizhnekamskBegishevo Airport
RussiaNizhnevartovskNizhnevartovsk Airport
RussiaNizhny NovgorodStrigino International Airport
RussiaNovokuznetskSpichenkovo Airport
RussiaNovosibirskTolmachevo Airport
RussiaOrenburgOrenburg Tsentralny Airport
RussiaOmskOmsk Tsentralny Airport
RussiaPermPerm International Airport
RussiaRostov-on-DonPlatov International Airport
RussiaSaint PetersburgPulkovo Airport
RussiaSamaraKurumoch International Airport
RussiaSurgutSurgut International Airport
RussiaSyktyvkarSyktyvkar Airport
RussiaTomskBogashevo Airport
RussiaTyumenRoshchino International Airport
RussiaUfaUfa International Airport
RussiaUlyanovskUlyanovsk Vostochny Airport
RussiaVolgogradVolgograd International Airport
RussiaVoronezhVoronezh International Airport
RussiaYekaterinburgKoltsovo International Airport
SpainBarcelonaBarcelona–El Prat Airport
SpainPalma de MallorcaPalma de Mallorca Airport
SpainTenerifeTenerife South Airport
Sri LankaColomboBandaranaike International Airport
ThailandBangkokSuvarnabhumi Airport
ThailandKrabiKrabi International Airport
ThailandPattayaU-Tapao International Airport
ThailandPhuketPhuket International Airport
TunisiaDjerbaDjerba–Zarzis International Airport
TunisiaEnfidhaEnfidha–Hammamet International Airport
TunisiaMonastirMonastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport
TurkeyAntalyaAntalya Airport
TurkeyBodrumMilas–Bodrum Airport
TurkeyDalamanDalaman Airport
United Arab EmiratesDubaiAl Maktoum International Airport
United Arab EmiratesDubaiDubai International Airport
VietnamNha TrangCam Ranh International Airport
VietnamPhu QuocPhu Quoc International Airport
VietnamDa NangDanang International Airport

Fleet

The Azur Air fleet consists of the following aircraft as of June 2020:

Accidents and incidents