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Azur Air Boeing 767: Gear Fire on Landing Prompts Evacuation

Reading Time: < 1 minute An Azur Air Boeing 767-300, performing flight from Nha Trang (Vietnam) to Barnaul (Russia) with 331 passengers and 10 crew, experiences fire of the right hand main gear. The aircraft had touched down on Barnaul’s runway 24 and went around at 21:01L (14:01Z), positioned for another approach and again landed on Barnaul’s runway 24 about […]

Azur Air Becomes Russia’s First Boeing 737-900 Operator

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the delivery of a Boeing 737-900 to Azur Air, Russia’s biggest charter carrier becomes the country’s first operator of the largest member of the Boeing 737 NG family. The Russian airline plans to use the newly-delivered aircraft across its entire medium-haul network. The airline’s general director, Yury Stogny, expects that replacing the existing Boeing […]

Russia’s Largest Charter Carrier Aims For 30 Aircraft in Its Fleet by 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes Azur Air, Russia’s largest passenger charter airline, is on track to increase its current fleet roster of 22 to 30 aircraft by 2020. Backed by its ‘strategic partner’, Turkish travel operator Anex Tour, Azur Air has already taken delivery of its first Boeing 777-300ER wide-body, the first of the type in the airline’s all-Boeing fleet. […]