VD Gulf announce base maintenance contract with Moldova’s LCC FlyOne
Volga-Dnepr Group’s MRO specialist to provide heavy maintenance on two Airbus A320s at Sharjah [...]
February 2020
Russia’s Red Wings resumes Tupolev Tu-204 operations
Bringing back Russian-made VIP-configured jet doesn’t interfere with plans for adding six more Airbus A321s this year [...]
Aeroflot accepts its first A350-900 wide-body airliner
The Russian flag carrier is the launch operator of the type in eastern Europe and the CIS [...]
Russia introduces new procedures for airspace infringements
Russia’s armed forces are authorised to bring down a civilian aircraft in an exceptional airspace infringement provided there are no passengers or hostages onboard [...]
UK-based Russian partner airline CargoLogicAir suspends its operations
At its own request, the cargo airline’s operating licence and AOC have been suspended for three months [...]
Ansat’s light utility helicopter is approved for the China market
Certification means that Russian Helicopters may now begin the deliveries of 20 rotorcraft units to China’s Emercom [...]
Moldovan start-up budget carrier HiSky set to enter a small, crowded market
The new privately owned low-cost carrier is launching in April with the support of Romania’s Cobrex Trans [...]
RusLine become Russia’s 12th IATA airline
The regional airline expects to benefit from the global association’s best practices [...]
The producer of Russia’s Superjet 100 becomes a division of Irkut
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co, the manufacturer of the Russian regional jet, is no longer a separate entity [...]
FL Technics strengthens its position with the acquisition of Italy’s Flash Line Maintenance
The Lithuanian MRO will expand its network to more than 50 line maintenance stations [...]
S7 Technics to focus on aircraft maintenance
Russian holding has undergone structural changes aimed at boosting the operational efficiency of its MRO businesses [...]
Low-cost carrier Pobeda doubled its profits last year
The Aeroflot Group’s budget airline subsidiary posted net profits of 4.9 billion roubles in 2019 [...]
Uzbekistan Airways puts more ageing long-haul Boeings up for sale
The flag carrier of Uzbekistan is to take delivery of an Airbus A320neo and a Boeing 787-8 this year [...]
Belarus’ Belavia to be first operator of the E195-E2 in the post-Soviet territory
The flag carrier agrees to lease three of the advanced Embraers from AerCap [...]
Russia’s S7 Airlines brings in a 20th Airbus A320neo
The country’s second largest carrier also enjoyed robust January results [...]
GTLK Europe leases three Airbus A220-300s to start-up African airline
Nigeria’s Green Africa Airways is to launch operations this year with aircraft leased from the Irish division of Russia’s State Transport Leasing Corporation [...]
Avion Express entrusts the heavy maintenance of its six A320s to Joramco
The Jordan-based MRO arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise reveals an agreement with Lithuanian ACMI operator [...]
Russia’s Azimuth Airlines to launch a Mineralnye Vody base
With its Superjet 100-only fleet, the regional carrier is expanding its operations [...]
airBaltic’s passenger numbers increased by 19 per cent in January
In a good lift-off to 2020, Latvian hybrid airline airBaltic carried 311,000 passengers [...]
Russia’s Utair comes up with a new five-year recovery strategy
The financially troubled airline expects to rejuvenate its business model with a radical fleet-renewal programme and by concentrating on medium-haul markets [...]
Postponed Boeing 737 MAX deliveries jeopardise Pobeda’s growth plans
Aeroflot Group’s low-cost subsidiary is now targeting 12 million passengers this year, short of its initial projections [...]
Russia’s largest airport may be fully privatised
Sheremetyevo’s private shareholders have decided to purchase the current 30 per cent state ownership of the Moscow airport [...]
Russia’s largest cargo carrier switches from scheduled to charter operations to China
Volga-Dnepr Group operates ‘sterilised’ charter flights to the Coronavirus-hit country [...]
Start-up budget carrier saves Kazakhstan’s passenger business from stagnation
Overall, the country’s aviation industry grew last year, but local airlines contributed only a little to the improvement [...]
Insight: A round up of Russian airlines’ passenger traffic performances in 2019
Passenger numbers, trends, RPKs and seat load factors for last year’s top-20 [...]
Kazakhstan’s airlines may now register their aircraft in Bermuda
The country’s aviation authority has signed the relevant ICAO 83bis agreement [...]
Antonov Airlines ends sales deal with Dreamlifts agency
Ukraine’s heavyweight cargo carrier has agreed to terminate its exclusive arrangement with its specialist general sales and service agent [...]
Uzbekistan considers the creation of up to five new airlines this year
The government’s draft state programme includes provisions for the launch of new resident airlines and the reduction of handling fees at airports [...]
Passenger numbers through Georgia’s airports dipped by three per cent in January
The Caucasus country’s main airport has dragged the industry’s statistics into the red [...]
Russia’s Smartavia targets three million passengers this year
The regional airline is to continue expanding its fleet with Boeing 737NGs [...]
Kyrgyzstan introduces Tupolev Tu-204s for the first time
SkyKG Airlines has leased two of the ageing aircraft type which are owned by Russia’s Ilyushin Finance Co [...]
Russian airlines demonstrated a 6.4 per cent passenger growth in January
Although, passenger numbers were down at both Aeroflot and Rossiya Airlines [...]
Traffic through Kyrgyzstan’s airports climbs by five per cent
Its share of the international segment of the country’s air travel market has now reached 68 per cent [...]
Aeroflot and Japan Airlines codeshare ready for take off
Members of different airline alliances to further stimulate air travel connections between Russia and Japan [...]
Fleet expansion inspires Uzbekistan Airways’ traffic growth
The country’s president continues to criticise the industry’s pace of development, though [...]
Russia’s Azur Air enjoyed a 36.6 per cent surge in passenger traffic last year
The country’s largest charter carrier added six wide-body aircraft and served 5.8 million passengers in 2019 [...]
INSIGHT: Russia’s top-30 largest airports in 2019
Growth at Russian airports slowed last year as 20 per cent of local airports suffered traffic declines [...]
Ukraine International Airlines’ passenger numbers declined in 2019
To optimise its capacity and climb out of the red, the Ukrainian flag carrier is to reduce its fleet size in 2020 [...]
Russia’s Pobeda reveals its 2020 summer season flight schedule
The country’s only low-cost airline is increasing its leisure destinations offering by 64 per cent [...]
Russia’s Utair 2019 results show a slight improvement
Despite some passenger traffic growth the airline has lost its top-five ranking [...]
Aeroflot’s net profits improved by 89 per cent last year
The airline failed to reach 2017’s levels though, according to its Russian Accounting Standards financial report [...]
Aeroflot is Russia’s only airline allowed to continue scheduled flights to China
The carrier may benefit from picking up more transit passenger flows between China and Europe [...]
For the first time Russia’s Utair sends a wide-body jet to Uzbekistan for maintenance
Uzbekistan Airways Technics to perform a C-check on one of the Russian airline’s Boeing 767s [...]
Aeroflot Group companies experienced mixed results in 2019
Russia’s biggest airline group’s combined passenger traffic was up by nine per cent last year [...]