SAT Airlines

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SAT Airlines (Sakhalinskie Aviatrassy) is an airline based in Sakhalin, Russia. It provides scheduled regional air services in Russia's Far East and to destinations in South Korea and Japan. Other services include charter flights, search and rescue operations, firefighting and aerial patrols. Its main base is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport (UUS), Sakhalin.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: HZ
• ICAO Code: SHU
• Callsign: Satair ^[1]

[edit] History

The Joint Stock Company, Sakhalinskie Aviatrassy - SAT Airlines was established as a result of the reorganisation of the Sakhalin United Detachment. It was established and started operations on 20 April 1992. It is owned 100% by the Government of the Russian Federation. It employs 574 staff.

[edit] Services

SAT Airlines operates the following services (at January 2005):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Vladivostok and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

• International scheduled destinations: Busan, Hakodate, Sapporo, Harbin and Seoul.

[edit] Fleet

The SAT Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[2] :

• 1 Airbus A310-300
• 1 Antonov An-12
• 6 Antonov An-24
• 1 Boeing 737-200

[edit] External links

• SAT Airlines

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006