Russia's largest private airline carried 12.9 mln passengers in 2024

S7 Airlines stays in Top-3, despite GTF challenges

Russia's largest private airline carried 12.9 mln passengers in 2024[...]
Aeroflot 2024 traffic growth exceeds the Russian industry average three-fold

Aeroflot 2024 traffic growth exceeds the Russian industry average three-fold

Russia’s flagship carrier recorded double-digit growth both of its international and domestic traffic[...]
Russia’s Utair traffic grew

Russia’s Utair saw it traffic grow by 5.8% in 2024

This is still 17.5% below the level achieved in pre-crisis 2019[...]
Russia's LCC Pobeda carries 90 million passengers

LCC Pobeda carries 90 million passengers in its first decade

Aeroflot’s budget subsidiary is expected to serve 13.6 million passengers in 2024[...]
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Russian airlines’ traffic exceeds 95 million passengers in 10 months of 2024

October passenger traffic saw growth of 6.5 percent year-on-year[...]
Russia' Red Wings airlines gets Superjet 100

Russia’s Red Wings takes delivery of a new Superjet 100

The aircraft is one of the last in the batch assembled in the type’s original configuration with western-made components[...]
Aeroflot to add 33 destinations to its winter schedule

Aeroflot to add 33 destinations to its winter schedule

Aeroflot Group airlines will collectively provide service to 260 destinations in the coming season[...]
passenger traffic of Russian airlines in September 2024 grew

Russian airlines' traffic grew by 4.8% in September, helped by abnormally warm weather

Domestic passenger traffic returned to growth[...]
Russia's developed ACARS

S7 Airlines switches to Russian ACARS

The locally-provided service now covers all of the airline’s main routes[...]
Aeroflot to spend some US$300 million for replacing Western-developed IT products

Aeroflot to spend US$300 million on replacing foreign IT products

Russia’s largest airline group successfully transitions to local IT products and services[...]
Aurora orders MC-21 and SJ-100 aircraft

Aurora orders five MC-21 and two SJ-100 aircraft

…with delivery of both aircraft types by 2035[...]
GTLK largest customer for Russian regional aircraft

GTLK becomes the largest customer for SJ-100, IL-114 and Tu-214 aircraft

The lessor will purchase a total of 238 Russian aircraft[...]
Russian airlines' traffic slowing

Russian airlines’ passenger traffic grew 4% in July

But dynamics is slowing[...]
Aeroflot's top destinations

Aeroflot reveals top destinations for the first half of 2024

Moscow – Sochi tops the list of Aeroflot’s most popular domestic destinations, Moscow – Istanbul is the leader in the international segment[...]
Russian domestic air passenger number down

Russian domestic passenger air traffic starts a slow descent

The number of passengers on domestic flights fell by 1.4% year-on-year in July[...]


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