Sayakhat Airlines or Sayakhat Air Company () was an

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines ...

based in

Almaty Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. It operated chartered cargo and passenger flights out of

Almaty International Airport Almaty International Airport is an international airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is larger than Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport (NQZ) in Astana and is the main international gateway into the country. It is a airline hub, principal ...

History

The airline was founded in 1989 by Vladimir Kouropatenko and Nikolai Alexeyevich Kuznetsov as the first private airline company in Kazakhstan. Flight operations started in 1991.

Fleet

The Sayakhat Airlines fleet included the following aircraft: *4

Ilyushin Il-76TD The Ilyushin Il-76 (; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-12. ...

*3 Tupolev Tu-154M

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* Defunct airlines of Kazakhstan Airlines established in 1989 Airlines disestablished in 2012 {{Kazakhstan-transport-stub