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Sep 02, 2009 (newstodate): Uncertainty is mounting around the future of the Kaliningrad-based Russian airline KD Avia.
Sources claim that the airline has suspended its sale of tickets and informed the state aviation authority Rosaviatsii that is may terminate its flight operations.
As most airlines in Russia, KD Avia is hard hit by the current financial crisis, and its debts with providers are piling up while the planned state financial help does not seem to have reached its account.
The privately-owned KD Avia has built up a network comprising routes from Kaliningrad to London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Munich, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Prague, Rome, Milan, Vienna, Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Nizhniy Novgorod, Omsk, Samara, Perm, Kazan, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, and Astana.
The carrier has ordered up to 50 Airbus A320 to replace the aging Boeing 737 fleet by 2012, and planned to have a total of 60 aircraft by 2016.
Sources claim that the airline has suspended its sale of tickets and informed the state aviation authority Rosaviatsii that is may terminate its flight operations.
As most airlines in Russia, KD Avia is hard hit by the current financial crisis, and its debts with providers are piling up while the planned state financial help does not seem to have reached its account.
The privately-owned KD Avia has built up a network comprising routes from Kaliningrad to London, Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Munich, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Prague, Rome, Milan, Vienna, Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Nizhniy Novgorod, Omsk, Samara, Perm, Kazan, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, and Astana.
The carrier has ordered up to 50 Airbus A320 to replace the aging Boeing 737 fleet by 2012, and planned to have a total of 60 aircraft by 2016.