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ההודעה הרשמית מאתר החברה (מתורגמת לאנגלית):

(ההודעה המקורית ברוסית כאן).

"Kuban Airlines" (brand - the airline "Kuban") announces halt operations and cease operations from December 11, 2012.

Aircraft operations "Kuban" will be stopped from 00:00 December 11, 2012. The main reason for the stop of the airline is the difficult financial situation and the inability to follow a number of provisions of the new Federal Aviation Regulations "Certification requirements for natural persons, legal persons engaged in commercial air transport" (FAP-11), which entered into force at the end of November 2012. According to the rules in the park carrier conducting scheduled air services shall consist of not less than 8 aircraft with a capacity of 55 or more passenger seats.

Until now, "Kuban" operated six aircraft of foreign manufacture. Then the three of them (Airbus A -319) forced the airline ahead of time because it is impossible to return the lessors timely payments under the contract and is in arrears in payments. Previously, from November 1, 2012, out of service were also removed obsolete airliners "Yak-42" Soviet-made in connection with the termination of the assigned resource and low economic efficiency.

Given the inability of the prevailing conditions (reducing the fleet by 50%) to run a program of autumn-winter navigation in the stated amounts in accordance with the requirements of FAR-11, airline management made the decision to stop the forced operations.

 Airline "Kuban" We have to state that today the very existence of regional airlines in Russia threatened. This is facilitated by the imperfection of the current legislation, there is a problem with access to markets, selective support of some airlines in the form of protectionist measures and subsidies, the opacity of the aviation industry suppliers, the absence of a favorable financial background, aimed at stimulating regional carriers to move to new modern aircraft. The existing regulatory regime for the airline does not promote competition, the emergence of new carriers, opening regional routes and the overall financial health workers airlines.

After stopping the operations and cease operations "Kuban" will work closely with the Administration of Krasnodar region, in order to minimize the problems associated with the forced cancellation of flights.

 The company sent a statement to the Arbitration Court of Krasnodar Krai on the recognition of its bankruptcy. All financial claims will be considered by the bankruptcy process to manage the airline.

Sergei Mordvintsev, CEO of airline "Kuban", commented on the decision: "This measure - forced. We took this step only because of a confluence of a number of adverse circumstances. In the absence of a reduction of the low season the transportation costs to the level of profitability, the imperfections of the subsidy mechanism from the budgets of different levels, the further activities of the company, unfortunately, is not possible. "

10/12/2012