Air Ukraine

Infobox Airline
airline = Air Ukraine

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ICAO = UKR
callsign = AIR UKRAINE
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Air Ukraine was an airline based in Kiev, Ukraine. It operated scheduled domestic and international services and was the former Ukrainian flag carrier.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1992. It was established from the Aeroflot Kiev division, with other Ukrainian divisions merged to it. It was declared bankrupt by its owner, the Ukrainian government, in December 2002 and was being restructured. Plan was to merge Air Ukraine, Aerosvit Airlines and Ukraine International Airlines as new Air Ukraine and flag carrier for the country. Plan failed and their operating license was removed. Fact|date=February 2007

Fleet

The Air Ukraine fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at beginning of 2003):

*1 Tu-154M
*3 Tu-134

Original fleet inherited from collapsing soviet Aeroflot was a lot bigger. It started to reduce soon with planes being withdrawn or sold to other airlines because of over capacity and financial problems. Fleet list from 1993 was:
*50 An-24
*17 An-26
*9 An-30
*3 An-32
*1 An-72
*1 An-124
*2 IL-18
*9 IL-62
*26 Tu-134
*38 Tu-154
*20 Yak-40
*20 Yak-42