Orenburzhie is a commercial airline headquartered in Orenburg, Russia, on the ground of Orenburg Airport. It serves as regular and charter passenger airline out of Orenburg and Izhevsk Airport. It is currently banned from flying in the EU.
History On 11 August 2010, the property complex of the airport was separated from the structure of FSUE Orenburg Airlines and the FSUE International Airport Orenburg was registered. An-2 aircraft, Mi-2, Mi-8T, Mi-8P and Ka-226 helicopters were also transferred to the balance of the new enterprise.
To resume regional traffic, three new L-410 aircraft manufactured by Aircraft Industries were purchased on lease (received in February-March 2013), registered and certified, flight and engineering personnel were retrained.
On 4 October 2012 FSUE "International airport" Orenburg "was transferred to the ownership of the Orenburg region and renamed into the State Unitary Enterprise of the Orenburg region" Airport Orenburg ".
On 1 April 2013, the airline commenced flights from Orenburg to Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Orsk, Perm, Samara, Tyumen, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, and then from September to Saratov, and finally in October 2013 to Aktobe. On 22 October 2013, the airline was registered as a foreign carrier in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and from November 18 it began operating flights on the Orenburg - Aktobe route.
As of 2017, Orenburzhye was supposed to receive 8 Embraer 190 on lease from Air Canada in favor of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 order, however this never materialized.
Destinations Orenburzhye serves the following scheduled destinations:
Kotlas - Kotlas Airport
Ufa - Ufa International Airport
Belgorod - Belgorod International Airport
Chelyabinsk - Balandino Airport
Simferopol - Simferopol Airport
Kaluga - Grabtsevo Airport
Petrozavodsk - Besovets Airport
Kirov - Pobedilovo Airport
Anapa - Vityazevo Airport Krasnodar - Pashkovsky Airport Sochi - Adler-Sochi International Airport
Lipetsk - Lipetsk Airport
Omsk - Omsk Tsentralny Airport
Orenburg - Orenburg Tsentralny Airport Base Orsk - Orsk Airport
Perm - Bolshoye Savino Airport
Rostov-on-Don - Rostov-on-Don Airport
Samara - Kurumoch International Airport
Yekaterinburg - Koltsovo Airport
Kazan - Kazan International Airport Nizhnekamsk - Begishevo Airport
Nizhnevartovsk - Nizhnevartovsk Airport Uray - Uray Airport
Izhevsk - Izhevsk Airport
Voronezh - Gumrak Airport
Voronezh - Chertovitskoye Airport
Yaroslavl - Tunoshna Airport
Aktobe - Aktobe Airport
Buguruslan - Buguruslan Airfield Cheboksary - Cheboksary Airport Gelendzhik - Gelendzhik Airport Nizhny Novgorod - Strigino Airport Nyagan - Nyagan Airport Saratov - Saratov Tsentralny Airport Stavropol - Shpakovskoye Airport Tyumen - Roshchino Airport
Fleet
The Orenburzhye fleet consists of the following aircraft:
Aircraft type Active Orders Notes Let L-410 Turbolet 7 — Antonov An-2 15 — Mil Mi-2 6 — Mil Mi-8 3 — Total 31 —
References
External links Official website