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Yakutia Airlines Becomes Russia’s First Q400 Operator

Aircraft Airlines February 1, 2013

Yakutia Airlines will fly three Bombardier Q400 turboprops, all acquired used. It has already taken delivery of the first. The Q400 is the largest Western-built turboprop aircraft to be awarded type approval for operation in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Air Astana Ready to Launch Astana-Omsk Service

Airlines Airports July 11, 2012

The carrier’s flights to the major Siberian industrial and transportation center will be operated by 50-seat Fokker 50 turboprops twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays. Two more weekly frequencies, operated by Embraer 190 jets on Thursdays and Sundays, will begin from September 1.