Tulpar Air

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Tulpar Air

IATA	ICAO TUL	Callsign

Founded

2004

Hubs

Krasnoyarsk

Secondary hubs

Khabarovsk, Norilsk, Abakan, Perm

Fleet size

Headquarters

Krasnoyarsk

Key people

Sergey Trifonov (General Manager)^[1]

Website

http://www.tulpar.ru

Tulpar Air is based in Kazan (Tatarstan), Russia, and was established in late 2004 by absorbing the airline Atlas which specialized in helicopter transport. It has its own maintenance base in Kazan. In 2010 it was Russia's least punctual airline with 21% of flights delayed.^[2] Before bankruptcy, TAIF was the majority shareholder.^[3]

Destinations

According to the summer schedule 2011 airline operates scheduled services in the following cities, the frequency of flights - at least once a week:

From Moscow (Vnukovo)

Usinsk (operated in codeshare with UTair using Tulpar aircraft)
Ukhta (operated in codeshare with UTair using Tulpar aircraft)

From Moscow (Domodedovo)

Baikonur

From Kazan

Norilsk (via Ufa)

From Krasnoyarsk

Norilsk
Chita
Khabarovsk (then onwards to Irkutsk)

From Khabarovsk

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Anadyr (then onwards to Magadan)
Magadan

From Novosibirsk

Norilsk

From Abakan

Norilsk

Fleet

Aircraft type	Active	Notes
Yakovlev Yak-40K	1
Yakovlev Yak-42D	4
Bombardier Global Express BD-700	1
Bombardier Challenger-300	2
Cessna Citation 525	1

Incidents

May 28, 2010 - Yak-42 failed to take off from Vnukovo due to problems with the engine.^[4]

January 28, 2011 (12:30 pm local time) - Yak-42 made an emergency landing aircraft at Norilsk due to warning of "second engine failure". On board were eight crew members and 111 passengers.^[5]

May 19, 2011 (10:55am local time) - Yak-42 carrying out flight from Abakan to Norilsk successfully landed in Norilsk despite very poor weather conditions.^[6]

Evening of May 25, 2011 - Yak-42 made an emergency landing at the international airport of Sochi because of the failure of one of the engines.^[7]

June 11, 2011 (7:07 am Moscow time) - Air incident on landing of Yak-42 at Vnukovo after all 4 wheels of the left main landing gear were damaged. There were no injuries.^[8]

References

Airlines of Russia

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