Kavminvodyavia (KMV Avia) was an airline based in Mineralnye Vody in the North Caucasus, Russia. It operated scheduled services to over 20 destinations in the northern Caucasus region and abroad, as well as charter services. Its main base was Mineralnye Vody Airport, which was also operated by the company.

History

The first airport operation was in 1925, when a French Dornue-Comet was the sole aircraft. The present three-story airport building opened in 1965.

The airline was established in 1961 as the Mineralnye Vody Aviation Group. Its first international destination 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.

Destinations

thumb|right|KMV Tu-154M at Moscow airport

thumb|right|KMV [[Tupolev Tu-154 at Mineralnye Vody Airport]]

thumb|180px|right|KMV [[Tupolev Tu-204 at Salzburg Airport]]

In August 2010, Kavminvodyavia operated flights to the following:

<br />All flights to the European Union were suspended on 19 June 2007 due to fleet issues.

Scheduled

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  • Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport

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  • Irkutsk – Irkutsk International Airport
  • Khabarovsk – Khabarovsk Novy Airport
  • Moscow
  • Domodedovo Airport
  • Sheremetyevo Airport
  • Vnukovo Airport (focus city)
  • Mineralnye Vody – Mineralnye Vody Airport (hub)
  • Nizhnevartovsk – Nizhnevartovsk Airport
  • Novokuznetsk – Spichenkovo Airport
  • Novosibirsk – Tolmachevo Airport
  • Noyabrsk – Noyabrsk Airport
  • Pevek – Pevek Airport
  • Saint Petersburg – Pulkovo Airport
  • Stavropol – Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport
  • Yekaterinburg – Koltsovo Airport

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  • Simferopol – Simferopol International Airport

Charter

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  • Burgas – Burgas Airport

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  • Paphos – Paphos International Airport

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  • Thessaloniki – Thessaloniki International Airport

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  • Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion International Airport

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  • Turin – Sandro Pertini International Airport (Caselle)

Fleet

In April 2011 the Kavminvodyavia fleet included:

{| class="wikitable"

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! rowspan="2"| Aircraft type !! rowspan="2"| Active !! rowspan="2"| Orders !! colspan="3"|Seats !! rowspan="2"|Age, years!! rowspan="2"|Notes

|-

! Business !! Economy !! Total

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| rowspan="2"|Tupolev Tu-154M|| rowspan="2"|8||rowspan="2"|1|| 30<sup>1</sup>|| 102|| 132|| rowspan="2"|19,8|| rowspan="2"|Two more stored

|-

|0||165||165

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| Tupolev Tu-204-100|| 2|| 2|| 0 || 192 || 192 || 13,1||

|}

<sup>1</sup>12 first class (3 rows, 4 abreast) and 18 (3 rows, 6 abreast) seats.

References

  • Kavminvodyavia
  • Kavminvodyavia
  • Kavminvodyavia Fleet