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 Azur AirBoeing 767-300ER | |||||||
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| Founded | 1992; 33 years ago (1992) | ||||||
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| Hubs | Vnukovo International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 17 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia | ||||||
| Key people | Alexander Zosymov, General Director | ||||||
| Website | azurair.ru | ||||||
Azur Air (Russian:Азур Эйр), formerlyKatekavia and stylised asazurair, is acharter airline and formerregional airline inRussia. Initially it was based inKrasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport, the domestic airport servingKrasnoyarsk, and its destinations were all withinKrasnoyarsk Krai.[1] Nowadays, it mainly serves leisure destinations such as the route Moscow toBodrum, offering an all-business class charter.[2] It is currently on thelist of airlines banned in the European Union.[3]
The airline started operations in 1995 and operates regional flights out ofKrasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport andKrasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo Airport.[4][5] The airline also operates charter services toSiberia andYakutia. It carried around 122,000 passengers in 2009,[citation needed] and in 2010, started to acquire larger aircraft, mainly theTupolev Tu-134. As of 3 April 2014, it had three Tupolev Tu-134s.[5]
In April 2014, the airline commenced scheduled flights between largerKrasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo Airport and further cities inSiberia:Surgut andTomsk. The airline received international media and social media attention in 2014, when a video emerged of passengers on a scheduled flight fromIgarka toKrasnoyarsk disembarking pre-departure to push their plane in temperatures of minus 52 degrees Celsius after its chassis froze.[6]
In 2015, Katekavia handed over its fleet toTurukhan Airlines. Katekavia was rebranded as a leisure carrier and renamed Azur Air.[7][8]
In February 2018, the Russian aviation authorityRosAviatsiya 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.[9]
On 8 April 2022, the US Department of Commerce restricted flights on aircraft manufactured in the US forAeroflot,Aviastar, Azur Air,Belavia,Rossiya andUtair. It seems the US wants to reclaim ownership of the intellectual property.[10] On 16 June, the US broadened its restrictions on the six airlines after violations of the sanctions regime were detected. The effect of the restrictions is to ground the US-manufactured part of its fleet.[10]
As of July 2022, Azur Air was forced to drastically reduce its international network due to sanctions against Russia as well as the recall of several aircraft by their lessors in accordance with these.[11]
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As of August 2025[update], Azur Air operates the following aircraft:[12]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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| C | Y | Total | ||||
| Boeing 737-800 | 1 | — | — | Sole aircraft is stored | ||
| Boeing 757-200 | 9 | — | 238 | 238 | ||
| Boeing 767-300ER | 7 | — | — | 336 | 336 | |
| Total | 17 | — | ||||
Azur Air additionally formerly operated the following aircraft types:[citation needed]
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