Elbrus Airways

Hubs and network, GOV-03

One base, three waves, fifteen points.


The network opens as one operating whole rather than in stages, because a connecting bank has no value until the services that feed it and the services they feed are flying together. Everything is timed to meet at Sochi.

AER

Sochi

Base and hub

KRR

Krasnodar

Focus city

NAL

Nalchik

Focus city

SUI

Sukhum

Spoke, second hub as the fleet expands

Sukhum holds one standing overnight aircraft. That does not make it a base: it carries no spares, no maintenance capability and no based crew, and it exists so the first coastal movement of the day runs inbound to Sochi and so the Airline holds one aircraft outside the air navigation region containing every other point it serves.

GOV-03A

Route table

Frequencies are departures a week in each direction
RouteTierAircraftDistanceWeeklyBlock outBlock in
Sochi - SukhumFeederDHC-662351:001:00
Sochi - KrasnodarFeederDHC-6101351:151:15
Sochi - NalchikFeederE175 / E195160191:051:05
Sochi - Mineralnye VodyFeederE175143211:101:10
Sochi - BeslanFeederE17520461:151:15
Sochi - Moscow VnukovoRussia trunkE1951,20643:453:25
Krasnodar - Nalchik - Moscow VnukovoRussia trunkE1951,260 rotation31:20 / 3:153:15 / 1:20
Sochi - St. Petersburg PulkovoRussia trunkE1951,54224:304:10
Sochi - Istanbul Sabiha GokcenTurkeyE19549742:101:50
Nalchik - Istanbul Sabiha GokcenTurkeyE17565522:352:35
Sochi - KayseriTurkeyE17534641:401:30
Sochi - AmmanMiddle EastE19572932:402:20
Sochi - DamascusMiddle EastE17562422:302:10

Russia trunk distances are flown distances on the eastern corridor rather than great circle distances. The Sochi to Moscow great circle is 736 nautical miles and the corridor adds 64 per cent to it.

Sochi

The connecting bank

Minimum connecting time 45 minutes
  1. 08:50 - 09:20Bank 1 arrivalsFeeder arrivals from Sukhum, Krasnodar, Nalchik, Mineralnye Vody and Beslan
  2. 10:05 - 10:20Bank 1 departuresRussia trunk, Turkey and Middle East departures
  3. 11:30 - 13:30Midday arrivalsSukhum, Krasnodar and Nalchik returns
  4. 13:45Midday departureAmman, Friday only
  5. 18:50 - 19:25Bank 2 arrivalsRussia trunk and Middle East arrivals
  6. 20:15 - 20:45Bank 2 departuresFeeder departures distributing to every spoke and focus city

The midday wave carries no additional block hours. It is built from feeder rotations that already fly, timed to cluster ahead of the afternoon Amman departure rather than spread across the day at random.

EUS

How flights are numbered

Numbers are allocated in blocks of one hundred by the geography the flight serves. Odd numbers depart Sochi, even numbers return to it, and numbers run in time order within a range. A rotation keeps one series from first departure to final arrival.

BlockScopeIn use
10-Domestic, all points in Circassia and Abkhazia101 to 164
20-Turkey201 to 222
30-Middle East301 to 312
40-Russia401 to 422
50-EuropeReserved
60-GulfReserved
70-, 80-UnallocatedHeld
90-CharterReserved

Every scheduled service, by day

GOV-03

Every point served

IATAICAOAirportCityRole
AERURSSSochi International AirportSochiBase and hub
KRRURKKKrasnodar International AirportKrasnodarFocus city
NALURMNNalchik AirportNalchikFocus city
SUIURASSukhum International AirportSukhumSpoke, second hub as the fleet expands
MRVURMMMineralnye Vody AirportMineralnye VodySpoke
OGZURMOBeslan AirportVladikavkazSpoke
VKOUUWWVnukovo International AirportMoscowRussia gateway
DMEUUDDDomodedovo International AirportMoscowRussia gateway
LEDULLIPulkovo AirportSt. PetersburgRussia gateway
SAWLTFJSabiha Gokcen International AirportIstanbulTurkey gateway
ASRLTAUErkilet International AirportKayseriTurkey gateway
AMMOJAIQueen Alia International AirportAmmanMiddle East gateway
DAMOSDIDamascus International AirportDamascusMiddle East gateway
JEDOEJNKing Abdulaziz International AirportJeddahSeasonal religious charter
MEDOEMAPrince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International AirportMedinaSeasonal religious charter

Sukhum's ICAO location indicator was withdrawn in 2006. URAS is Russian-assigned and is the code under which the airport operates and under which the Airline files. It is not an indicator recognised by ICAO, and its recognition follows international recognition of Abkhazian sovereignty rather than any operating deficiency at the airport.