Angara Airlines Antonov crash lands in Nizhneangarsk, Russia
Two crew members killed, aircraft destroyed by fire after it crashed into airport infrastructure off the runway threshold [...]
Air Transport
Estonia’s flag carrier forced to change its business model
Strong competition has driven Nordica to move from being a scheduled carrier to an air services provider [...]
Russia’s NordStar launches its own line stations at Krasnoyarsk and Norilsk
The regional carrier is striving to arrange in-house line maintenance for its own fleet whilst also attracting third party clients [...]
Record three million passengers opted for Uzbekistan Airways last year
Major restructuring processes in Uzbekistan’s civil aviation are paying off [...]
FlyOne becomes Moldova’s largest Airbus operator
The privately owned LCC has taken delivery of its fifth Airbus A320-family aircraft [...]
Volga-Dnepr Technics adds the Boeing 737NG to its Krasnoyarsk MRO portfolio
The company will service sister airlines within the group as well as other customers [...]
Avia Solutions to acquire Chapman Freeborn
The Lithuanian aviation holding will become the sole owner of the British charter broker [...]
Turkmenistan Airlines strives to regain European approval status in Autumn
With support from Lufthansa Consulting, the Turkmenistan carrier is aiming for international safety standards [...]
YanАir is approved to resume operations
Ukrainian authorities restore the airline’s AOC, which was suspended earlier this month [...]
S7 Technics launches Russia and the CIS’s second CFM56 maintenance shop
Russia’s largest MRO provider triples its CFM56 repair capabilities in the region [...]
Aeroflot to start operating the Airbus A350-900 early next year
The new aircraft will fly between Moscow and New York in the 2020 summer schedule [...]
Russia’s Utair may have found a way out of its debt trap
To pay its creditors the airline may sell off some of its non-operational assets [...]
SkyUp becomes Ukraine’s first beneficiary of Split Scimitar winglets
Hybrid airline’s entire fleet of Boeing 737NGs have been equipped with the devices [...]
Turkmenistan Airlines to extend its long-haul fleet to four Boeing 777-200LRs
The new B777will be the 32nd aircraft purchased by Turkmenistan’s national carrier from the US manufacturer [...]
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo to launch Boeing 777F operations next year
Dubai-based company to lease three new B777 freighters to the B747F operator [...]
Start-up Armenia Airways launches operations
Armenian airline operates a BAe 146-300 and two Airbus A310s [...]
The all-turboprop fleet of Qazaq Air grows to five aircraft
De Havilland Aircraft Canada delivers a first Dash 8-400 turboprop [...]
Azur Air contracts AFI KLM E&M for Boeing 777 modifications
The European MRO group has carried out three previous cabin modification projects for the Russian airline [...]
Volga-Dnepr Group completes C-check on an Iraqi Airways Boeing 777
VD Gulf undertakes its first project on the type [...]
MC-21 lives up to its max performance targets in testing
New aircraft beats western rivals in speed and operational limits, manufacturer Irkut claims [...]
S7 Airlines signs for GE’s power-by-hour offer
Seven-year contract covers the Russian airline’s Embraer E170 engines [...]
Superjet 100 crash at Sheremetyevo triggered by electric storm says initial report
Investigation finds that go-around was not initiated by an activated thrust reverser [...]
Royal Flight becomes Russia’s next Boeing 777 operator
The charter carrier expects to take delivery of two more of the type in the near future [...]
FORECAST: Nine per cent growth expected for Russian airlines this year
Russian think-tank TCH warns about overloaded Moscow airports and the necessity of developing regional flows [...]
Russian airlines’ foreign aircraft escape VAT liabilities until 2023
But Russian government is intensifying efforts to encourage carriers to list imported aircraft on local register [...]
Azerbaijani airports served 1.85 million passengers in the January to May 2019
Capital airport accounts for 85 per cent of all air passengers visiting country [...]
Russia’s S7 Airlines takes delivery of its 99th airliner
The 16th Airbus A320neo family aircraft is the latest element in the rejuvenation of the airline’s fleet [...]
Russian carriers kept double-digit growth in May’s passenger numbers
The country’s airlines served some 10.54 million passengers in May [...]
Aeroflot and Vietnam Airlines start code-share programme
The number of Russians visiting Vietnam is likely to reach one million next year [...]
Russia’s Smartavia to operate 20 Boeing 737NGs in 2022
Younger fleet will help the regional carrier expand into the charter market [...]
SkyUp Airlines adds an eighth Boeing 737 to its fleet
This new arrival will serve as a dedicated standby aircraft for Ukraine’s young hybrid carrier [...]
Ukraine’s YanAir is grounded over safety concerns
The country’s authorities have suspended the airline’s AOC until the shortcomings are eliminated [...]
UAC continues delivering Superjet 100s to Russian airline customers
This is despite safety concerns voiced by airlines following the tragic Sheremetyevo SSJ100 accident [...]
World’s first ‘intelligent’ air cargo container
Russia’s AirBridgeCargo and Unilode are jointly introducing digitised main deck cargo-carrying units [...]
Turkish Cargo launches freighter flights to Moscow Sheremetyevo
THY Cargo connects Moscow to its network of direct all-cargo services [...]
ABC and CLA take a major step forward into the world of digital cargo bookings
The Volga-Dnepr Group carriers expect this will help to increase short-term capacity sales and improve load factors [...]
New LCC FlyArystan served in excess of 51,000 passengers during its first month of operation
Kazakhstani first budget airline’s passenger load factor reached 93 per cent [...]
AZAL pushes back deliveries of 10 Boeing 737 MAXs by five years
In the meantime, the Azerbaijani flag carrier is in talks with Boeing over wide-body aircraft [...]
INSIGHT: Severstal, the airline from the land of steel
The Russian regional carrier, owned by the steel and mining giant, opts for the SSJ100, but is under no illusions [...]
Aeroflot Group losses increased by 51 per cent in the first quarter of 2019
Russia’s largest airline group’s net loss amounted to US$242.3 million on higher fuel costs, currency effects [...]
Yakutia Airlines introduces lie-flat sleeper seats on domestic flights
It’s the first such service on narrow-body aircraft in Russia [...]
Russia’s airlines increase their passenger traffic by 11.8 per cent
Collectively, they carried more than 34 million passengers in four months of 2019 [...]
Etihad Airways boosts its services to ‘attractive’ Moscow
A second daily frequency will be served utilising an Airbus A320 [...]
Russia’s troubled Utair comes up with a new 35-year debt-restructuring plan
Shares in the carrier’s lucrative Surgut airport and helicopter businesses are being offered as security [...]
Air Astana postpones its Boeing 787 deliveries – again
The Kazakh national carrier blames an economic downturn in the country and the devaluation of its local currency [...]
Russia’s Ural Airlines to embrace NDC
U6 to become the country’s third airline to use IATA’s New Distribution Capability [...]
Airbus A220 to be given Russian type certification in 2019
European manufacturer is confident of the aircraft’s success in the local market [...]
Volga-Dnepr’s Moscow tech base gains Bermuda approval for B777 maintenance
Bermuda is currently Russia’s most popular jurisdiction for registering passenger aircraft [...]
airBaltic takes delivery of its 19th Airbus A220 aircraft
Half of the Latvian hybrid airline’s passengers now fly on the type [...]
After the Moscow crash, operators question the safety of the SSJ100
Why did the fire spread so quickly? Could the tragedy have been avoided? [...]