Kavminvodyavia
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| Federal State Unitary Air Enterprise "Kavminvodyavia" ФГУАП «КМВ» | ||
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| Image:Kavminvodyavia logo.png | ||
| IATA KV[1] | ICAO MVD[1] | Callsign AIR MINVODY[1] |
| Founded | 1995 | |
| Hubs | Mineralnye Vody Moscow-Vnukovo Stavropol[1] | |
| Fleet size | ||
| Destinations | 20 | |
| Parent company | Government owned | |
| Headquarters | Mineralnye Vody, Russia | |
| Key people | Vasiliy Viktorovich Babaskin (General Director)[1] | |
| Website: http://www.kmvavia.aero | ||
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[edit] Other Defenitions
Kavminvodyavia (KMV Avia) is an airline based in Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus, Russia. It operates scheduled services to over 20 destinations in the northern Caucasus region and abroad, as well as charter services. Its main base is Mineralnye Vody Airport [2], which is also operated by the company.
[edit] History
The first airport operation dates from 1925, when the one aircraft was a French Dornue-Comet. The present three-story airport building opened in 1965.
The airline was established in 1961 as the Mineralnye Vody Aviation Group. The first international city it operated services to was Berlin in 1980. The airport and its civil aviation service was reorganized into the Mineralnye Vody Civil Aviation Enterprise in 1988, under the direction of V.V. Babaskin. It was reorganized again in 1995 into the State United Venture Kavminvodyavia, more commonly known as KMV [2]. The airline purchased several Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft in 1997.
[edit] Destinations
As of August 2007, Kavminvodyavia operates flights to the following:[3][4]
All flights to European Union are suspended since 19 June 2007 until company resolves issues with fleet. [5]
Domestic scheduled destinations: Mineralnye Vody, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo (focus city), Khabarovsk, Mineralnye Vody (hub), Nizhnevartovsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Noyabrsk, Pevek, Saint Petersburg, Stavropol and Yekaterinburg
International scheduled destinations: Yerevan
International charter destinations: Paphos, Tekirdag, Tel Aviv and Thessaloniki
[edit] Fleet
As of May 2007 the Kavminvodyavia fleet includes:[6][1]
- 2 Tupolev Tu-204-100 (plus 2 on order)
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Kavminvodyavia
- (English) Kavminvodyavia
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f (Russian) Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 27 April 2007, p. 221
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 100.
- ^ Polet-Sirena
- ^ (Russian) KMV Avia official website Charter schedule
- ^ [1] Official explanation
- ^ Aerotransport.org Kavminvodyavia fleet details
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