Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar) has signed a LOI for 12 SSJ 100-95s with deliveries expected to start towards the end of 2012. It has withdrawn its Yak-42 fleet from scheduled service and only uses the aircraft for charters and as operational reserve aircraft now. As a result it has cancelled its routes from Adler/Sochi to Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Perm, Samara, St. Petersburg and Ufa, from Anapa to Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Perm, Samara and Ufa, from Gelendzik to St. Petersburg, from Krasnodar to Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Gyoumri, Kazan, Nizhnevartovsk, Novy Urengoy, Samara, St. Petersburg, Surgut and Ufa and from Mineralnye Vody to Moscow Vnukovo. ALK’s only remaining routes are Krasnodar to Adler/Sochi and Moscow Vnukovo as well as the routes operated as Sky Express (Russia) (XW/Moscow Vnukovo) from Moscow Vnukovo to Chelyabinsk, Rostov and Vladikavkaz.