The Cuban Civil Aviation: Equipment, airports, routes and colleaguesRuben Urribarres |
Equipment of the Cubans airliners
Ilyushin Il-62 CU-T1252 of Cubana landed in Milan, Malpensa airport, June 1986
(Courtesy of Marco Ceschi)
| Cubana de Aviación | Aerogaviota | Aerocaribbean | Aerotaxi |
| 10 Antonov An-24RV
20 Antonov An-26 2 Airbus A320(TACA) 9 Ilyushin Il-62M 2 Ilyushin Il-76MD 4 Tupolev Tu-154M 6 Yakovlev Yak-40 3 Yakovlev Yak-42D 3 Douglas DC-10-30 5 Mil Mi-8 1100 employed |
3 ATR-42-300 1 ATR-72 15 Mil Mi-8 1 Antonov An-2 21 Antonov An-26 1 Antonov An-30 4 Yakovlev Yak-40 | 1
Antonov An-24 3 Antonov An-26 3 ATR-42-300 1 ATR-72 1 Ilyushin Il-14 3 Ilyushin Il-18 3 Yakovlev Yak-40 245 employed | 41
Antonov An-2 4 Douglas DC-3 5 Mil Mi-8 |
 | Antonov
An-2 CU-T1411 of Aerotaxi, Holguín airport, Jan 30, 2000 (Courtesy of Jim De Koning) |
Must indicate that the Cuban airlines are state and they are able to change airplanes according to the needs from one to another and vice versa, and these are frequent. Besides that Aerogaviota and Aerotaxi use also equipment of the Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR). AeroCaribbean is today a Cuban-Canadian company. The description of these airplanes in Cuba can be seen in the equipment page.
Airports: 11 internationals and 11 nationals
International San Antonio de los Baños, La Habana "José Martí"
International Varadero "Juan Gualberto Gómez"
International Cienfuegos "Jaime Gonzáles" (2800m)
International Cayo Largo "Vitalio Acuña"
International Holguin "Frank País"
International Santiago de Cuba "Antonio Maceo"
International Cayo Coco "Jardines del Rey"
International Ciego de Ávila "Máximo Gómez"
International Santa Lucía
International Manzanillo "Sierra Maestra"
International Trinidad "Orestes Acosta"
Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud "Rafael Cabrera Mustelier"
Santa Clara "Abel Santamaría"
Camaguey "Ignacio Agramonte"
Las Tunas "Hermanos Ameijeiras"
Bayamo "Carlos Manuel de Céspedes"
Guantánamo "Mariana Grajales"
Baracoa "Gustavo Rizo"
Sancti Spiritus
Moa
The total of air runways in Cuba are 181 (at
1998), of them with paved runways: 144.
With runways of more than 3660
m: 3;
3,047 to 3,660 m: 7;
2,438 to 3,660 m: 12;
1,524
to 2,437 m: 14;
914 to 1,523
m: 11.
Under 914 m: 36.
Routes of cuban airlines
| Domestical | Europe | Caribbe | America |
| Baracoa
Bayamo Camaguey Cayo Coco Cayo Largo Ciego de Ávila Nueva Gerona Guantánamo Holguin Manzanillo Moa Santiago de Cuba Varadero Victoria de Las Tunas | Barcelona Berlin Brussels Copenhaguen Franckfurt Geneve Las Palmas Lisabon London Madrid Manchester Moscow Paris Rome Santiago de Compostela Stanbul Vitoria | Cancún
Curacao Fort de France Kingston Montego Bay Nassau Pointe à Pitre Saint Martin Santo Domingo | Bogotá
Buenos Aires Caracas Córdoba Guayaquil Lima Maracaibo Mendoza Mexico Montevideo Montreal Quito Rio de Janeiro San José de Costa Rica Santiago de Chile Sao Paulo Toronto |
Airlines with representation in Havana
 | Two epoques. A DC-3 of Aerotaxi with a Boeing-737 of Air Transat. Cayo Coco, April 4, 1998 (Courtesy of Mark Taylor) |
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airlines from 28 countries flying today to Cuba. They are 12 more then at 1998.
The following airlines have their representation in Havana:
| Aerocaribbean
(Cuba) Aerocaribe (México) Aeroflot (Russia) Aerogaviota (Cuba) Aerolíneas Argentinas (Argentina) Aeropostal (Venezuela) Aerotaxi (Cuba) Aerovaradero (Cuba) Aerovías Caribe (México) Air Europa (Spain) Air Europe (Italy) | Air
France (France) Air Jamaica (Jamaica) ALM (Dutch Antillas) AOM (France) Aviateca (Guatemala) Cóndor (Germany) Copa (Panama) Cubana de Aviación (Cuba) Iberia (Spain) Inter (France) | Intercontinental
(Colombia) Lacsa (Costa Rica) LTU (Germany) Martinair (Holland) Mexicana (México) Premiair (Deenmark) SAS (Scandinaves) TAAG (Angola) Tame (Equator) Viasa (Venezuela) |
Related articles
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1933-1938, Cuban Military Aviation. The 1933 Revolution and her consequences.
External Links
Cuban Military Forum
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