2020 first year without traffic growth for Russia’s LCC Pobeda Airlines
However, Aeroflot’s low-cost subsidiary reports $19 mln net profits for the crisis year [...]
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Russian airlines’ passenger traffic down 46 per cent in 2020
Aeroflot remained the country’s largest carrier last year [...]
S7 Airlines retained leadership of the Russian air travel market for 9 months in 2020
none of Russia’s largest airlines managed to improve its December 2019 results [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan targets to double traffic this year
Air Astana’s LCC division FlyArystan proceeds on its expansion path with plans to add more aircraft and launch new routes [...]
Red Wings to double fleet in 2021 by adding SSJ100s, A320s and B777s
The Russian airline plans to bring in the total of 20 aircraft this year despite prolongued crisis [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic down 48 per cent in November
Compared to October, the decline in traffic numbers has aggravated [...]
Six Russian airlines demonstrate improved operational results in September
Russia’s domestic air travel grows 6.8 per cent year-on-year [...]
Russia’s Azimuth Airlines is the leader in Superjet 100 utilisation rates
The world's only operator of fleet composed entirely of SSJ100 managed to grow its passenger traffic by 3.4 per cent in August [...]
Moscow deemed reasonably safe for public events
Once the quarantine restrictions have been uplifted, the aviation community is eager to meet off-line to network and seek common solutions [...]
Emirates’ A380 returns to Moscow
Domodedovo Airport at Russia’s capital enters the exclusive club of six destinations served by the type [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic reaches 63.4 per cent of 2019 level in August
Low-cost carrier Pobeda boasts double-digit growth amidst the turbulent market [...]
Russia’s Red Wings starts transformation into role-model SSJ100 operator
UAC-owned airline has taken delivery of the first of the batch of 60 SSJ100 and reveals plans for further development of its ambitious project [...]
TsAGI wins $18.4 mln state grant for supersonic research
Russia funds launch a dedicated scientific center for low-boom supersonic development [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic doesn’t reach half of July 2019 levels
Despite gradual recovery of the domestic market, remaining restrictions on international travel kept traffic levels low in July [...]
S7 Airlines to launch dedicated freight operations in November
The Russian airline is leasing two Boeing 737-800BCF from GECAS [...]
Pobeda Airlines demonstrates traffic growth in July
Unlike the low-cost carrier, Russian airline industry’s average was at 47.2 per cent of July 2019 [...]
Russia’s S7 Airlines adds another Airbus A320neo
The airline is gearing up to re-start international service on August 10 [...]
Air Astana expands A320neo support contract with GA Telesis
Kazakhstan’s national carrier has signed for Flight Hour programme for its entire neo fleet [...]
Russia to re-launch international air travel on August 1
Turkey, Great Britain and Tanzania are the first to open borders for Russian travelers [...]
Domestic traffic through Russia’s St. Petersburg airport recovers completely
Pulkovo claims to outperform London’s Heathrow, Munich and Oslo in July so far [...]
Aeroflot expects complete domestic traffic recovery by year end; to add 8 more Superjets
Russia’s flag carrier is also hopeful to regain 80 per cent of international business [...]
Russia’s Ural Airlines resumes operations of its entire fleet
During the pandemic travel lockdown the airline converted 12 of its aircraft for freight missions [...]
Russia’s Azur Air resumes passenger flights
The international leisure charter carrier has launched scheduled domestic service [...]
Moldova’s FlyOne receives IOSA certification
The milestone is of importance for the LCC, as most of the nation’s airlines are on EU’s black list [...]
Russian airlines’ May traffic improves 28 per cent on April
S7 Airlines is still leading the market [...]
Russian passenger traffic in early June triples compared to May
But it is still down six-fold year-on-year [...]
S7 Airlines plans on resuming all domestic flights in June
Russia’s largest private airline even adds new destinations to its domestic network [...]
S7 Technics to perform heavy maintenance work on Air Astana’s Boeing 757s
The Russian company is the only MRO provider beyond Urals qualified for the type's heavy maintenance [...]
Utair wins UN contract for the deployment of Irish forces to Syria
The contract may increase the chances of survival for the Russian airline in the ongoing air travel market crisis [...]
Low-cost carrier Pobeda launches an anti-crisis survival strategy
Aeroflot group’s budget subsidiary is anticipating substantial losses in the first quarter of 2020 [...]
S7 Airlines is confident it is strong enough to survive the crisis
Nevertheless, Russia’s second largest carrier slashes its summer programme by 50 per cent [...]
Ratings agency Fitch downgrades Domodedovo airport to BB
The credit status of Russia’s second largest airport is down because of the Coronavirus outbreak, the outlook is negative [...]
CIS states close their borders and suspend air connections
Belarus is the only nation in the region to describe closing borders as ‘nonsense’ [...]
Russia suspends all air connections with foreign countries
From March 27, only evacuation flights will cross Russia’s borders [...]
Aeroflot starts grounding its aircraft in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis
In the most optimistic scenario, the Russian flag carrier will have to mothball a quarter of its fleet [...]
Rossiya Airlines consolidates all its Moscow flights at Sheremetyevo
The Aeroflot Group member is transferring its leisure flights programme from Vnukovo, Moscow to its parent’s capital city base [...]
Uzbekistan Airways Technics performs its first ever Boeing 737 C-check
The Uzbeki MRO services provider has only recently added the new aircraft type to its EASA Part-145 approval [...]
Estonian MRO specialist and Airbus sign airframe maintenance agreement
Magnetic MRO has entered into a long-term agreement for the support and maintenance of Airbus family aircraft [...]
The MAC Aero Interiors UK production facility is relocated to Estonia
The Magnetic MRO subsidiary is concerned about the changed economic environment in the United Kingdom [...]
Re-named ACMI carrier Xfly brings in additional supplemental capacity
The Estonian wet lease company Regional Jet has adopted new brand name and is to expand its fleet with seven Embraer E190s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 largest cargo carrier switches from scheduled to charter operations to China
Volga-Dnepr Group operates ‘sterilised’ charter flights to the Coronavirus-hit country [...]