Kuban Airlines is an airline based in Krasnodar, Russia. It operates domestic schedules within Russia and international charters. Its main base is Pashkovsky Airport, Krasnodar.^[1] An Airbus A380 of Emirates Airline An airline provides air transport services for passengers or freight. ... 19th century photo depicting Kuban Cossacks obelisk in Krasnodar Krasnodar (Russian: ) is a city in Southern Russia on the Kuban River. ... Pashkovsky Airport (Russian:Аэропорт Пашковский) (IATA:KRR, ICAO:URKK) is the main airport serving the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. ...

Code Data

• IATA Code: GW
• ICAO Code: KIL
• Callsign: Air Kuban^[2]

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History

The airline was established and started operations in 1932 as a division of Aeroflot. It was privatised in 1992. It is owned by the state (51%) and the airline employees (49%).^[1] Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aeroflot — Russian Airlines (MICEX:AFLT RTS:AFLT) (Russian:Аэрофлот — Российские авиалинии), Aeroflot — Rossijskie Avialinii, or Aeroflot (Аэрофлот; literally air fleet), is the Russian national airline and the biggest carrier in Russia. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

Destinations

Kuban Airlines operates the following services (at January 2007):^{[citation needed]} Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Anapa, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhnevartovsk, St Petersburg, Surgut and Ufa.

• International scheduled destinations: Antalya, Aleppo, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Saloniki, Sharjah, Tashkent, Tel Aviv and Yerevan.

Anapa (Russian: ) is a seaport town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. ... Kaliningrad (Russian: ; Lithuanian: Karaliaučius; German  , Polish: Królewiec; briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg), is a seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. ... Kazan (Russian: ; Tatar: Qazan, Казан) is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russias largest cities. ... 19th century photo depicting Kuban Cossacks obelisk in Krasnodar Krasnodar (Russian: ) is a city in Southern Russia on the Kuban River. ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: , Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ... City map Nizhnevartovsk (Russian: ) is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, Russia. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... Railway station in Surgut. ... UFA or Ufa may refer to: Ufa, a city in Russia Ufa, a town in Ethiopia Uniform Firearms Act, a set of laws in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Unit factor analysis, another name for dimensional analysis. ... Antalya (formerly known as Adalia; from Pamphylian Greek: Αττάλεια Attália) is a large town and tourist destination, situated on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. ... Aleppo (or Halab Arabic: , ) is a city in northern Syria, capital of the Aleppo Governorate. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ... Thessaloníki (Θεσσαλονίκη; pronounced IPA /θɛ.sa. ... Sharjah Central Souq - Shopping Mall The flag of Sharjah The Emirate of Sharjah (Arabic: الشارقة ash-shaariqah) extends along approximately 16 kilometres of the United Arab Emiratess Persian Gulf coastline and for more than 80 kilometres into the interior. ... Tashkent Tashkent (Uzbek: , Russian: , English: ) is the current capital of Uzbekistan and also of Tashkent Province. ... Tel-Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. ... Location of Yerevan in Armenia Coordinates: Country Armenia Established 782 BC Government  - Mayor Yervand Zakharyan Area  - City 227 km²  (87. ...

Fleet

The Kuban Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (at June 2007)^[1] : Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

• 6 Yakovlev Yak-42
• 6 Yakovlev Yak-42D
• 2 Tupolev Tu-154M

The three engined Yakovlev Yak-42 was designed as a replacement for the twin engined Tupolev Tu-134 jet. ... The three engined Yakovlev Yak-42 was designed as a replacement for the twin engined Tupolev Tu-134 jet. ... The Tupolev Tu-154 (NATO reporting name: Careless) is a Russian medium-range trijet airliner, equivalent to the Boeing 727. ...

Previously operated

At August 2006 the airline also operated^[3] : For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

• 1 Tupolev Tu-154M
• 1 Antonov An-24

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External links

• Kuban Airlines

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 103. 
2. ^ Airline Codes
3. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006