Russia’s Utair doubles its losses in the first half of 2018
Decline in the passenger segment increases carrier’s financial woes by 20.2 per cent [...]
August 2018
Aeroflot Group posts 5.2 billion rubles loss for first half of 2018
Despite traffic growth, fuel cost spikes plague Russia’s largest airline group [...]
Air Astana’s domestic traffic down as Qazaq Air bites into local market
Fierce competition on domestic routes hinders Kazakhstan national carrier’s local growth [...]
INSIGHT: S7 Technics Holding dominates MRO services in Novosibirsk
Russia’s largest independent maintenance services provider rules the Siberian market [...]
Lithuania’s capital airport signs ACL to manage its slots in 2019
Contract coincides with Vilnius’ passenger numbers growth to 4.7 million a year [...]
Aeroflot and S7 Group outgrow the Russian market
Russia’s two largest airline groups’ traffic growth rate hits year record, as the rest slow down [...]
Rossiya Airlines’ cabin crews go digital
Russian airline implements SITAOnAir’s solution to streamline its cabin crew management operations [...]
Russia’s Yakutia Airlines to lease 10 Boeing 737MAX-7s
To facilitate this transaction, the airline is looking for a buyer for up to half of its shares [...]
INSIGHT: How Riga Airport aims to double its cargo traffic by 2025
The Latvian airport plans to launch a logistics centre and offer incentives to attract cargo airlines and freight forwarders [...]
Russia’s Utair outlines its B737MAX-8 delivery schedule
Three B737MAX-8s and two B737-800s are to join the airline’s fleet next year [...]
Tallinn expansion for Latvia’s airBaltic
12 direct services from the Estonian capital for Latvian carrier in 2019 [...]
Estonian airline to provide Swedish domestic services
Nordica’s subsidiary has won a contract to provide services in the Swedish domestic market [...]
Aeroflot takes delivery of two more Superjet 100s
Russian flag carrier expands its fleet to 245 aircraft [...]
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft posts a $12 million loss in first half of 2018
Russian regional jet’s share of global regional jet market deliveries declined [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic growth slows in July
Mid-summer traffic growth rate is lowest since beginning of the year [...]
Russia’s MC-21-300 will be less expensive than western counterparts
The new Russian narrow-body’s list price is set at US$96.1 million [...]
Komiaviatrans’ international flights are banned
Restrictions imposed on Russian regional airline allegedly because of its unstable financial standing [...]
Aeroflot to buy back shares from dissenting shareholders
The airline is to spend 7.04 billion rubles buying back its shares from those holders who did not approve the MC-21 deal [...]
Nordwind may become Russia’s first operator of the Boeing 737-900
Deliveries of Boeing’s largest variant of the B737NG to Nordwind are scheduled before the end of this year [...]
Rossiya Airlines to reduce its A319 fleet by 20 per cent
Russian airline will return five Airbus A319s to lessors [...]
INSIGHT: Review of United Aircraft Corporation’s commercial projects
Russia's UAC estimates its share of the global 80-120-seat regional jet market is 37.5 per cent [...]
Ural Airlines and Belavia launch code-sharing pact
Russia’s fourth-largest airline and Belarus’ flag carrier offer shared services across each other’s route networks [...]
S7 Technics opens maintenance line station at Sheremetyevo
Russian leisure carrier Royal Flight has become the new line station’s first customer [...]
Magnetic MRO upgrades its RFID systems to an advanced level
Estonian company launches Radio Frequency Identification to manage and synchronise inventories at all its facilities [...]
Lithuania’s FL Technics’ Indonesia station receives FAA certification
FL Technics’ MRO station is one of few in Indonesia certified to FAA Part-145 [...]
Baku Airport passenger numbers up 14 per cent in seven-month period
86 per cent of all passenger traffic was transported on international flights [...]
Volga-Dnepr and China’s Henan province endorse their strategic cooperation
The parties aim to make a notable contribution to the creation of trans-Siberian air bridge [...]
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana adds a fourth A321neo
Air Astana fleet grew to 33 western-built aircraft [...]
Russia’s IrAero launches year-round Boeing 777 services to China
Irkutsk-based regional carrier diversifies its business [...]
Russia’s IFly adds a seventh A330 to its fleet
Vnukovo-based charter airline proceeds with its Airbus fleet expansion plan [...]
Utair Airlines offers five airframes for sale
For US$300,000 each, the aircraft are to be sold without engines and APUs [...]
Passenger numbers through Zhukovsky continue to climb
New Russian airport’s July operational result tripled that of last year [...]
TsAGI completes first stage of VRT500 helicopter aerodynamic testing
Wind-tunnel test results confirm new Russian light helicopter’s design projections [...]
Low-cost Pobeda Airlines to double its frequencies from Russian regions
Russian budget airline aims to boost its share of direct inter-regional flights to 46 per cent [...]
1.2 million Russian airport passengers speed through automated gates during World Cup
Moscow’s Domodedovo benefits from SITA technology to manage the surge in passenger numbers [...]
Passenger traffic through Astana continues double-digit growth
Open Skies regime introduced last year contributes to the favourable development of the Kazakh air travel market [...]
Kyrgyz airports’ traffic figures remain level
After a period of growth, the country’s air travel market has remained level in the first half of 2018 [...]
Lithuanian ACMI specialist reports strong demand in 2018
Avion Express’s fleet utilisation has grown by 17 per cent in the first half of 2018 [...]
Aeroflot suffers net loss in the first half of 2018
This contrasts with the same period of last year when the airline posted a profit [...]
CRAIC identifies potential landing gear suppliers for the Sino-Russian CR929
Requests for quotations have been sent to suppliers from Russia, China and Europe [...]
Russian government allocates $0.02 billion for IL-96-400M production company
The main target is not so much the rejuvenation of the four-engined widebody itself, but a thorough upgrade of the production capabilities of VASO [...]
Russia’s Nordwind leases three new B737-800s from CDB Aviation
The airline, along with its sister carrier Pegas Fly, is on curse of expanding their combined fleet to 50 aircraft this year [...]
Moldova’s debt-burdened, state-owned flag carrier is put up for sale
Air Moldova is on offer at US$2.9 million, but with $72 million of historical debt obligations [...]
INSIGHT: Izhavia Airlines on a flight path of dynamic change
The new leader of the Russian regional airline and its partner airport, which is contemplating new B737 and Airbus A320 family aircraft, outlines his strategy for the sustainable development of both businesses [...]