Kyiv’s second largest airport to boost traffic by 35%
Traffic might further grow if Ukraine and the EU sign an open skies agreement in 2019 [...]
March 2018
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana introduces summer schedule
The growth in frequencies and new services will see the national carrier serving 30 cities in 21 countries this summer [...]
Hong Kong Airlines to launch service to Moscow
The carrier is readying for the June-July FIFA World Cup, to be hosted in Russia [...]
US provisionally recognizes FATA as aircraft certification body
FATA is recognized as Russia’s plenipotentiary body for the certification of aircraft, designers, and manufacturers of aviation equipment [...]
INSIGHT: DBAC, Moscow’s modest FBO
The Domodedovo Business Aviation Center expects its custom to grow by 30% eventually [...]
Small Planet Airlines set to become Baltic’s largest carrier
Lithuania’s leisure carrier plans to increase its fleet to 28 aircraft, as passenger numbers and revenue grow [...]
Magnetic MRO develops Airbus A330 maintenance capabilities
Estonia-headquartered Chinese-owned MRO provider enters wide-body aircraft maintenance market [...]
Russia’s Ural Airlines to lease ex-Air Berlin, Monarch A321s
Fast-growing Russian carrier to add four A320 family aircraft by the end of May [...]
Kazakhstan’s SCAT becomes first in Central Asia to fly 737 MAX
Kazakh private airline took delivery of its first Boeing 737MAX-8 [...]
Lithuanian academy Amikon adds pilot training option
Pilots will have access to a Boeing 737-500 full-flight simulator [...]
Russian airlines’ cargo traffic shrinks for first time in 18 months
But the decrease affected only international traffic, whereas domestic traffic continued to grow. [...]
Aeroflot group’s passengers up 6.1% in January-February
More than seven million passengers carried in the first two months of 2018 [...]
Four narrowbody Airbus jetliners join Russia’s Aeroflot fleet
Russia’s flag carrier has taken delivery of eight new western-built aircraft since the start of the year [...]
Ukraine updates Antonov An-225’s navigation equipment
Antonov's largest aircraft gets rid of Russian components [...]
Aeroflot launches new routes, increases frequencies for summer timetable
The Russian flag carrier’s expanded network will cover 52 domestic and 94 international destinations [...]
Aeroflot Group Passenger Traffic Up 6.1% in January-February 2018
Aeroflot PJSC (Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) today announces operating results for Aeroflot Group (“the Group”) and Aeroflot – Russian Airlines (“the Company”) for February and 2M 2018 [...]
Ryanair reveals ambitious plans for Ukraine
Georgia might be next in line [...]
Traffic through Domodedovo continues to slide
Moscow's other two airports fared better in the first two months of the year [...]
Top management changes at Russia’s Volga-Dnepr, Azur Air
Tony Bauckham rejoined the freight operator's global sales center, while Mikhail Kritsky has been relieved of his CEO post at the country's largest charter carrier [...]
Defunct Russian airline revealed as original customer for 42 factory-new narrowbodies
The airliners are now expected to be distributed among other willing customers across the country [...]
Irkut assembles second MC-21-300 test aircraft
Flight tests of the second prototype of Russia’s new-generation, narrow-body to commence in May [...]
Russia’s SSJ100 to expand high latitude envelope
The airliner was tested at the world’s northernmost commercial airport on Spitsbergen [...]
Ural Airlines stays Russia’s A320 utilization leader in 2017
The carrier operates an all-Airbus narrowbody fleet [...]
Ukraine’s new carrier SkyUp orders 737 MAX 10
The yet-to-be-launched airline will become the launch customer for the type in Eastern Europe [...]
Ukraine International Airlines adjusts 2018 fleet expansion plans
The carrier is to phase out three airliners and take delivery of 10 this year [...]
Russian authorities ground Antonov An-148 passenger airliners
The decision comes after a February fatal accident involving one of Saratov Airlines' Ukrainian-made jetliners [...]
GTLK completes delivery of first Russian-built L-410 turboprops
Russian lessor got government aid for the purpose of purchasing the aircraft [...]
AEROFLOT ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
PJSC Aeroflot (Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) announces the results of the extraordinary Board of Directors meeting held on 19 March 2018. [...]
HeliRussia and Show Observer renew partnership
Russia’s main helicopter exhibition selected Show Observer as its official daily, once again [...]
Russia, Uzbekistan fail to agree mutually acceptable air services
Tashkent refused to consider Zhukovsky as an additional destination; Moscow responded by denying access to Sochi and Vladivostok [...]
RusLine to move to Vnukovo from Domodedovo
The airline expects the relocation to help it avoid competition [...]
Passenger traffic at Krasnoyarsk grows 29% in January, February
The Siberian airport's small transit traffic increased by 91% year-on-year [...]
Ural Airlines carried over million passengers in early 2018
Russia’s fourth biggest carrier maintains a high traffic growth flight path [...]
Russia’s southern airports enjoy 18% traffic surge
Sochi, Krasnodar, Anapa, and Gelendzhik collectively served more than 1.375 million passengers in January and February 2018 [...]
Pulkovo commits to cutting Pobeda turnaround times to 25 minutes
Russia's only LCC is eyeing St. Petersburg as its second hub [...]
Saratov Airlines to have its E195s C-checked in Poland
A total of 600 inspections will be involved [...]
Kazakh airlines see traffic grow 20% in January, February
A total of 10 millioon annually is projected by the year 2020 [...]
INSIGHT: Russian air transport on a flight path to stability?
The country's market remains volatile, and its growth cycles are far from logical [...]
Russia’s Tolmachevo airport reports passenger growth
The gateway hosts S7 Airlines [...]
US-Russian JV signed first investment contract with Russian government
The US-Russian enterprise would be producing heat exchangers for Boeing 777X airliners [...]
Ukrainian airlines demonstrate moderate growth
The four airports which submitted their statistics for the period also registered an increase in passenger numbers [...]
Aeroflot Group revises forecast for traffic, fleet expansion upward
The group expects to have its combined fleet boosted to nearly 350 airframes by the end of the year [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic growth slows
There is still a growth, just not what you would expect [...]
Saudi Arabia to launch Antonov An-132 series production in 2021
The construction of an assembly plant in this Middle Eastern country is due to start in 2019 [...]
Russian Helicopter Systems receives fifth Ansat medevac rotorcraft
Another five of the type should follow this year [...]
Georgian airports register vigorous traffic growth
Batumi led the pack with a 67% increase in passenger numbers [...]
Aeroflot Announces Results of Board of Directors Meeting
PJSC Aeroflot (Moscow Exchange ticker: MOEX) announces the results of a meeting of its Board of Directors held on 15 March 2018. The meeting was chaired by Mikhail Poluboyarinov. [...]
Aeroflot Shareholders Propose Candidates
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aeroflot PJSC (Moscow Exchange ticker: AFLT) Mikhail Poluboyarinov has taken the decision to convene on 19 March 2018 a meeting of the Board of Directors by absentee voting in order to review shareholders’ proposed candidates for the Board of Directors and the Revision Commission. [...]
Fourth Beriev Be-200ChS for Russian Emergencies Ministry completed
The ministry has a total of six on order [...]
Vnukovo’s international traffic soars 42.8% in February
Overall business grew by 20% at Moscow’s third largest air gateway [...]