Avion Express enters the cargo transportation market
The Lithuanian ACMI carrier switches its current focus from passengers to freight[...]
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Severely reduced operations have forced Sheremetyevo to scale down [...]
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The Russian government is considering imposing restrictions on movements within the country [...]
Russia’s airlines permitted to extend the contracts of their foreign captains
The duration of the regulation has been extended by five more years[...]
Russia’s busiest airport closes three of its five passenger terminals
Severely reduced operations have forced Sheremetyevo to scale down[...]
Russian government adds large regional airports to ‘strategic enterprises’ list
As the country’s airports have already lost some 75 per cent of their expected traffic[...]
Small Russian airlines ask for government help
All country’s airlines should be equally eligible for state support, experts believe[...]
S7 Airlines is confident it is strong enough to survive the crisis
Nevertheless, Russia’s second largest carrier slashes its summer programme by 50 per cent[...]
Ratings agency Fitch downgrades Domodedovo airport to BB
The credit status of Russia’s second largest airport is down because of the Coronavirus outbreak, the outlook is negative[...]
VTB Leasing grants lease payments holiday to another Russian airline
Russia’s state-owned lessor has agreed a bailout deferment plan with Utair[...]
Full lock-down of domestic air travel in Russia is a possibility
The Russian government is considering imposing restrictions on movements within the country[...]
Just before the crisis: Russian airlines’ positive operational performances for January and February 2020
These two months are the final period of ‘normal life’ that will be used as the baseline for all future comparisons[...]
LCC Pobeda is Russia's first big airline to voluntarily suspend all operations
Because of the COVID-19 fallout, all flights of Aeroflot's low-cost subsidiary have now been grounded for two months[...]
CIS states close their borders and suspend air connections
Belarus is the only nation in the region to describe closing borders as ‘nonsense’[...]
Russia suspends all air connections with foreign countries
From March 27, only evacuation flights will cross Russia’s borders[...]
Interview: Andrey Egorov, general director of KrasAvia, on the COVID-19 crisis, the ATR-72 project and the woes of the depressed oil industry
“In our industry people are too valuable to cast aside. So we’ll try to survive together.”[...]
Blitz-Interview: Smartavia’s Viktor Anoshkin on the airline’s operations amidst the COVID-19 crisis
“Airline bankruptcies are likely to follow, and the recovery period won’t be a quick one”[...]
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