Editing Cubana de Aviación (section)

===1990s===
[[File:Cubana Il-62M CU-T1259 YYZ 1994-6-12.png|thumb|A Cubana [[Ilyushin Il-62M]] on short final to [[Toronto Pearson Airport]] in 1994]]

As of March 1990, Cubana had 5,658 employees and its fleet consisted of 12 [[Antonov An-24|An-24RV]]s, 26 [[Antonov An-26]]s, four [[Ilyushin Il-18|Il-18]]s, 11 Ilyushin Il-62Ms, two [[Ilyushin Il-76|Il-76D]]s, eight Tupolev Tu-154s (five Tu-154B2s and three Tu-154Ms) and 12 [[Yakovlev Yak-40]]s. At this time, the airline flew internationally to [[Barbados]], [[Basel]], [[Berlin]], [[Bissau]], [[Buenos Aires]], [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]], [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], [[Lima]], [[Luanda]], [[Madrid]], [[Managua]], [[Mexico City]], [[Montreal]], [[Panama City]], [[Paris]] and [[Prague]]; it also served a domestic network consisting of [[Baracoa]], [[Camagüey]], [[Holguín]], [[Nicaro-Levisa|Nicaro]], [[Nueva Gerona]], [[Santiago de Cuba]] and [[Las Tunas (city)|Las Tunas]].<ref name="FI1990-137-84" />

In the early 1990s, Cubana pursued a multi-faceted strategy to face the [[Special Period|challenges]] posed by the dissolution of the [[Eastern Bloc|Socialist bloc]] and the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union]]. This strategy targeted a restructuring of Cubana's fleet, the revamping of the airline's technical capabilities, and upgrading the quality of passenger services. After the early 1990s, spare parts for Cubana's Soviet-built aircraft became increasingly harder to source. Limited financial resources and lack of Western financing to replace these aircraft, coupled with restrictions imposed by the U.S. embargo on the sale of American-built aircraft and components (including engines and avionics), made it necessary to keep some of the airline's Soviet-built airplanes in service. Cubana had received its last three new Il-62Ms in late 1990 and early 1991 [along with two other (also new) similar aircraft in 1988 and 1989], and was able to keep them in service long after the Soviet Union's dissolution and the end of all Il-62 production in the mid-1990s. Cubana started leasing some Western aircraft ([[Airbus]], [[Boeing]]) for limited periods of time in the mid-1990s, to help sustain its services to Europe, Canada and some Latin American destinations, given the rapid growth of Cuba's tourism sector.