Bek Air

2017-04-26T08:46:37Z

Ashutosh2978:

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{{Infobox Airline
| airline = Bek Air<br/>Бек Эйр
| image = BEK_air_logo.png
| image_size =
| IATA = Z9
| ICAO = BEK
| callsign = BEKAIR
| founded = {{Start date|2011}}
| commenced = {{Start date|2011|9|01}}
| ceased =
| hubs = {{Unbulleted list|[[Oral Ak Zhol Airport]]}}
| secondary_hubs =
| focus_cities = [[Almaty]]
| fleet_size = 7<ref>[http://aviata.kz/bek-air Онлайн-агентство Bek Air]</ref>
| destinations = 19<ref>[https://www.chocotravel.com/ru/aircompanies/bek-air/z9 Авиабилеты Bek Air]</ref>
| parent =
| company_slogan =
| headquarters = [[Oral, Kazakhstan|Oral]], [[West Kazakhstan Province]], [[Kazakhstan]]
| key_people =
| website = [http://www.bekair.com/ www.bekair.com]
}}

'''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.

==History==

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== Destinations ==
Bek Air's destinations include :

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*[[Aktau]] - [[Aktau Airport]]<ref name=BekAirApril14>{{cite news|title=Bek Air. Новое направление полетов Алматы-Актау-Алматы|url=http://www.itplus.kz/news/avia/1557/|accessdate=26 March 2014|newspaper=International Travel plus|date=26 March 2014}}</ref>
*[[Aktobe]] - [[Aktobe Airport]]
*[[Almaty]] - [[Almaty International Airport]]
*[[Astana]] - [[Astana Airport]]
*[[Atyrau]] - [[Atyrau Airport]]
*[[Karaganda]] - [[Sary-Arka Airport]]
*[[Kostanay]] - [[Kostanay Airport]]<ref name=BekAir_Kostanay>{{cite news|title=Bek Air. Новое направление полетов Алматы-Костанай-Алматы|url=http://www.itplus.kz/news/avia/1522/|accessdate=25 February 2014|newspaper=International Travel plus|date=24 February 2014}}</ref>
*[[Kyzylorda]] - [[Kyzylorda Airport]]
*[[Oral, Kazakhstan|Oral]] - [[Oral Ak Zhol Airport]]
*[[Oskemen]] - [[Oskemen Airport]]
*[[Pavlodar]] - [[Pavlodar Airport]]
*[[Shymkent]] - [[Shymkent Airport]]
*[[Zhezkazgan]] - [[Zhezkazgan Airport]]

;{{IND}}
*[[Indira Gandhi International Airport| New Delhi]]

== Fleet ==
<nowiki/>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 acquired its first [[Fokker 100]] in 2012 after initially leasing aircraft from InvestAvia. In 2013 a second Fokker 100 was purchased from Mass Lease from the Netherlands and between 2014 and 2017 another 6 Fokker 100 aircraft were leased from Mass Lease.

Currently Bek Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:<center>
{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"
|+ '''Bek Air Fleet'''
|- bgcolor="lightblue"
!Aircraft
!In Fleet
|Orders
!C
!Y
|-
|[[Fokker 100]]
| align="center" |8
| align="center" | -
| align="center" |8
| align="center" |100
|}
</center>

==External links==
*{{Official website}}

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

{{Airlines of Kazakhstan}}
{{Portalbar|Kazakhstan|Companies|Aviation}}

[[Category:Airlines of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Airlines established in 2011]]

Kazakhstan Encyclopedia - User contributions [en]

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