Air Astana Group’s preliminary 2019 operational results suggest a ‘break-through’ year
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier and its LCC division have served an estimated 17% more passengers this year and anticipate further growth in 2020 [...]
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Iran-Uzbekistan air connections resume after a three-year hiatus
Iran’s Zagros Airlines has launched services between Teheran and Tashkent [...]
Georgian airports’ traffic growth slumps from 24 to two per cent
Russia’s ban on direct air service to Georgia has affected the country’s airports [...]
Azimuth Airlines’ all-Superjet 100 fleet grows to 11
A progressive fleet and network expansion programme has placed the Russian regional airline among the fastest growers in the market [...]
Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines to lease eight ATR 72s to bolster its domestic network
The Ukrainian airline is the second in the post-Soviet territory that is planning to add ATRs next year [...]
S7 Technics completes implementation of specialized MRO software
Russian MRO services provider is also planning the introduction of mobile edition of AMOS software in 2020 [...]
Aeroflot Group redistributes its Boeing 737 fleet
Eight Rossiya aircraft to be handed over to sister airlines Pobeda and Aeroflot [...]
Kazakhstan’s low-cost FlyArystan reveals its 2020 summer season plans
The budget airline is offering more than a million seats to 13 destinations [...]
Russia’s Aurora Airlines to double its fleet and passenger numbers by 2025
For the first time, the far eastern Aeroflot subsidiary has revealed ambitious plans [...]
airBaltic introduces a first Airbus A220 full-flight simulator
It is the first new FFS ever purchased by a Latvian company [...]
Russian airline IrAero ’s Boeing 777 project comes to another halt
Regional airline suspends wide-body services after Chinese partners pull out [...]
AtlasJet Ukraine temporarily loses its entire fleet
The Ukrainian subsidiary of Turkey’s AtlasGlobal has suspended all operations [...]
Qazaq Air confirms its safety compliance with IATA standards
The state-owned Kazakh regional carrier has renewed its IOSA operator status up to November 2021 [...]
AZAL plans a substantial fleet expansion with B777s, B787s and A320neos
Azerbaijan’s national carrier is to order two dozen new Airbus and Boeing aircraft [...]
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana completes first in-house Airbus A320neo C-Check
Russian MRO specialist S7 Technics assisted the process at Almaty Airport [...]
Avia Prime acquires Jat Tehnika to become a notable MRO player in Europe
The Czech MRO group has added the Serbian company to its existing assets of Polish Linetech and Slovenian Adria Tehnika [...]
Aeroflot Group’s fleet will be close to 400 aircraft next year
Russia's largest airline conglomerate plans to add 31 more aircraft in 2020 [...]
SkyUp to get its first new aircraft next year
The Ukrainian airline plans to take delivery of two Boeing 737 MAX-8s in addition to two used 737-900ERs [...]
A greener outlook for airBaltic as it takes its 21st Airbus A220-300
100th Airbus A220 aircraft delivered [...]
Aeroflot Group posts positive financial results for nine months of 2019
Good high summer season results helped Russia’s biggest airline grouping [...]
Russia’s Royal Flight cuts capacity
The leisure carrier has phased out two Boeing 757-200s [...]
Serbia’s Jat Tehnika to provide Superjet 100 maintenance
The Belgrade-based MRO services provider wins EASA approval to look after Russian regional jets [...]
Russia’s VTB Leasing considers expanding into global markets
The local market is too small for one of the country’s largest lessors [...]
Air Astana to launch new services from Almaty to Paris
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier will operate its new long-range A321neo LR narrow-body on the route [...]
airBaltic carried 22 per cent more passengers in the first 10 months of 2019
Latvia’s hybrid airline has phased-out three Boeing 737 Classics [...]
Russia’s NW Technic increases its share of third-party customers
Private aircraft maintenance specialist has significantly increased its productivity [...]
Interview: Maxim Pivovar, S7 Technics’ director for information systems development
“MRO industry leaders and regulators should become familiar with digitalisation” [...]
Russian leasing company to supply Tajikistan’s Somon Air with Embraer E190-E2 jets
VTB Leasing is to finance the acquisition by the Tajik flag carrier of two newest E-Jets with delivery planned for early 2020 [...]
The value of Russia’s LCC Pobeda is now US$800 million, Aeroflot boss claims
Country’s only budget carrier will celebrate the fifth anniversary in December [...]
Russia’s Azur Air’s all-Boeing fleet grows to 30 aircraft
In just five years, the Turkey-backed airline has grown into Russia’s seventh largest carrier [...]
Interview: Peter Foster, president and chief executive of Air Astana
‘When I entered the airline industry, it was inconceivable that I might end up running an airline in what was then in the Soviet Union’ [...]
Mongolia’s MIAT Technics gains approval to service Russian-registered aircraft
Russia’s aviation authorities have awarded an FAP-285 certificate to the MRO services provider [...]
Another SSJ100 delivery for Russia’s Azimuth is set for December
The country’s fastest growing airline has signed a leasing agreement with Russia’s largest lessor [...]
Aeroflot Group airline to acquire five Dash 8-400 turboprops
Aurora signs letter of intent to purchase five aircraft from De Havilland Canada [...]
Uzbekistan completes a key stage in the restructuring of its civil aviation
National carrier Uzbekistan Airways is now legally separated from the country’s airports operator [...]
All-Airbus operator FlyArystan to operate Boeing 737 MAX 8s
Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana, which is the owner of the LCC, is to order 30 B737 MAX 8s [...]
Russia’s Smartavia expands at St Petersburg as it continues fleet renewal
Second fastest growing airline is replacing its B737CL aircraft with NGs as it expands its service offering from Pulkovo [...]
Ural Airlines posts $50 million net profit in the 2019 three-quarter-year period
The Russian airline improved both its financial and operational performance [...]
Utair acquires more B737NGs while waiting for its delayed B737 MAXs
The Russian airline has signed a contract for two Boeing 737-800s and is negotiating for a further two [...]
A productive October for Russian airlines with an 11 per cent improvement
The nation’s carriers collectively transported 11 million passengers in the month [...]
Turkey is now Russia’s most popular international destination
In the domestic segment, the Moscow-St Petersburg route retains its leadership [...]
The Baltic’s largest airport to get a new air cargo handling facility next year
The advanced DHL logistics centre will ensure long-term air cargo flows through Riga Airport [...]
Air Astana completes its Embraer E190-E2 delivery contract
The Kazakhstan flag carrier now has five of the new-generation jets in its fleet [...]
Russia’s Utair navigates around bankruptcy – for now
The debt-ridden Russian major has won support from country’s largest bank as it posts US$15.5 million of net income [...]
Armenia’s ‘unsafe’ Taron-Avia ceases operations
Authorities revoke the airline’s Air Operator’s Certificate over safety violations [...]
Russia’s Pegas Group adds two Boeing 737-800s to its fleet
It brings the Nordwind Airlines and Pegas Fly combined fleet to 46 aircraft [...]
INSIGHT: Baku airport aims to boost its transit traffic
Azerbaijan’s capital airport is counting on its flag carrier and cloud technologies [...]
FlyArystan carries 455,000 passengers in its first six months of service
Kazakhstan’s first low-cost carrier stimulates domestic market growth [...]
Russian airport is first international destination for commercial operations of China’s ARJ21-700 regional jet
Vladivostok is the world’s first airport to accept the Comac ARJ21-700 operated by Chengdu Airlines [...]
The MRO industry in Russia: Changing market forces
Growing passenger numbers and a fleet increasingly made up of Western-built aircraft are creating new opportunities for the Russian MRO market [...]