March 2019
Natalya Fileva, co-owner and chairwoman of the board of directors of S7 Group, died in a plane crash in Germany [...]
Aeroflot’s fleet growth slows to a trickle
The smallest net increase in years, just five aircraft, is expected in 2019 [...]
S7 Airlines switches on its summertime schedule
Russia’s biggest private airline to operate to 216 destinations in 32 countries [...]
Aeroflot signs agreement to set up a new hub in Siberia
Krasnoyarsk international hub is scheduled to open in 2020 [...]
airBaltic takes delivery of its 15th Airbus A220-300
The latest aircraft is one of a batch of four on lease from Avation [...]
Aeroflot is to operate to 159 destinations in the upcoming summer season
Russia’s largest airline launches its 2019 summer timetable [...]
Utair Airlines implores creditors to write off 40 per cent of its debts
Major Russian airline’s outstanding obligations have now reached US$1.15 billion [...]
airBaltic appoints a sales broker for its six Boeing 737CLs
Latvian carrier commissions UK-based Skytech-AIC to re-market its old B737s – and the sale and leaseback financing of 10 new A220s [...]
CargoLogic Germany opts for electronic MRO management system
The Volga-Dnepr-associated express airfreight start-up has chosen the cloud-based TRAX eMRO system [...]
UAC creates MC-21 spare parts inventory to guard against further sanctions
Russian-made replacements have been designed for composite parts of the wing [...]
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo reinforces its Asian market position
Volga-Dnepr Group’s carrier increasing the number of frequencies to its main destinations in the region [...]
VTB bank files US$3.85 billion lawsuit against Transaero owners
The Russian bank is suing the defunct airline’s owners Olga Pleshkova, Alexander Pleshakov and Tatiana Anodina [...]
Russia’s Nordavia is rebranded as Smartavia
Regional airline will remain a classic legacy airline”focusing on regular and charter services [...]
Opinion: Conflicting trends
Russian air transport industry must make a decisive effort to review its financial credentials [...]
Red Wings scraps its Airbus A220 order and retires its Tupolev Tu-204s
The Russian state-controlled carrier will have an all-Airbus A320 fleet ahead of the arrival of the MC-21 [...]
Atran introduces Russia’s first Boeing 737-800BCF
The fleet of Volga-Dnepr Group’s express carrier grows to five narrow-body freighters [...]
Georgia’s Myway Airlines wins approval for flights to Russia
Flights should breathe new life into the struggling young Georgian carrier [...]
AirBridgeCargo wins further endorsement of its quality standards
Russian cargo airline is claiming a leadership role in quality standards [...]
S7 Technics has commenced work under a five-year Air Astana MRO contract
This is the first international airline to agree a long-term and large-scale contract with Russian MRO provider [...]
Russia’s Utair trades passenger numbers for greater efficiency
One of the country’s key airlines lost 11 per cent of its traffic in February [...]
Gazpromneft-Aero to introduce blockchain technology to refuelling by the end of 2019
Jet fuel provider is negotiating with banks and airlines to determine a starting user and launch provider [...]
Aeroflot targets ancillary revenue to counterbalance surging costs
Russia’s leading airlines group introduces hand-luggage-only fares on selected routes [...]
Ryanair considers the prospect of launching flights to Armenia
Europe’s largest LCC has consulted the country’s aviation authorities over a possible market entry in 2020 [...]
Russia’s S7 Airlines’ February passenger traffic improved by 8.5 per cent
The airline group brought in 14 additional aircraft in the past 12 months, increasing the number of its flights by 8.8% [...]
A third MC-21 prototype to join the flight test programme
The aircraft is the first to be fitted with a passenger cabin and will be premiered at MAKS-2019 August air show [...]
LCC Pobeda advised to consider replacing its 737MAX order with Russia’s MC-21
The Russian government is loath to approve the Aeroflot low-cost subsidiary’s purchase of 30 737MAXs [...]
Vietnam Airlines switches its Russian capital airport
To satisfy its code-share arrangement with Aeroflot, the Vietnamese flag carrier has moved its Moscow operations to SVO [...]
Italian LCC Ernest Airlines expands its Ukrainian network
It is the first airline to provide direct flights connecting Kharkiv with Rome and Milan [...]
Qazaq Air signs up for maintenance management software
Kazakh airline selects MRO software-maker Rusada to help it migrate to digital MRO management [...]
Ukraine International embraces its first Embraer 195
It is the sixth Embraer jet in the Ukrainian flag carrier’s fleet [...]
airBaltic to perform its own A220 C-checks by the end of this year
The Latvian carrier will recruit 50 specialist technicians during 2019 [...]
Azur Air’s second Boeing 777-300ER enters service
The fleet size of Russia’s biggest charter airline increased by 30 per cent last year [...]
S7 Technics opens line station at St Petersburg’s Pulkovo
Russia’s MRO provider now has line maintenance capabilities at seven of the largest airports across the country [...]
Russian airlines’ passenger numbers grew by 9.2 per cent last month
The nation's carriers collectively served 7.4 million passengers in February [...]
Uzbekistan Airways takes delivery of its first Airbus A320neo
The Uzbeki flag carrier becomes the third operator of the A320neo in the CIS [...]
Latvia’s airBaltic orders an A220 full-flight simulator
Level D simulator set for delivery to the hybrid airline by the end of 2019 [...]
Azur Air Ukraine to double its long-haul fleet
Turkish-owned Ukrainian leisure carrier is also introducing business-class service [...]
Air Astana takes delivery of its second Embraer 190-E2 aircraft
The first commercial flight of the second E2 is expected on last day of March [...]
Ukraine’s SkyUp quits Zhulyany for Boryspil
The hybrid carrier is switching its Kyiv base airport and is also opening an additional base at Kharkiv [...]
AJW to extend spare parts support services to Latvia’s SmartLynx
The companies agreed a new contract to cover the supply of consumables and expendables for the airline’s A320 fleet [...]
Irkutsk’s regional administration takes control of troubled IrAero
The private airline is counting on Moscow’s passengers and Siberian administration to ease its financial woes [...]
TAT Engineering adds the SSJ100 and MC-21 to its heat exchanger portfolio
The Russo-Israeli co-operation is banking on gaining Russian FAP-285 approval before the end of this year [...]
Russian airlines turn to Mongolian MRO provider for heavy checks
Yakutia Airlines and Royal Flight have contracted Mongolia’s MIAT Technics [...]
Three major Russian airlines contract Lufthansa Technik
Aeroflot, Ural Airlines and AirBridgeCargo have signed up with LHT for aircraft components and parts support [...]
Independent Russian aircraft MRO company VTS ramps up its business
Low-cost carrier Pobeda has become the largest customer for Vnukovo-based VTS [...]
Aeroflot Group suffered net profits plunge in 2018
The Russian consortium of airlines blames unprecedented fuel cost increases [...]
Kazakhstan’s Qazaq Air launches international services
State-owned regional airline announces flights to Russia and Kyrgyzstan, to get two more new Q400s [...]
Estonia’s Magnetic MRO acquires Dutch Direct Maintenance company
The Baltic company enters the wide-body line maintenance market [...]
S7 Technics to offer repairs to Honeywell auxiliary power units in Russia
MRO station for popular types of APUs will be the first such facility in Russia and the CIS [...]
Nordwind Airlines takes delivery of its 30th aircraft
A Boeing 777 is the ninth of the type in the airline’s fleet and the 40th in commercial operation in Russia [...]