Aeroflot Airbus only

Aeroflot airline to reinvent its fleet with Airbus' new generation aircraft only

Russia’s flag carrier considers to acquire 80 A350s and 94 A320neo family aircraft through 2028[...]
Russia international air travel

Russia to re-launch international air travel on August 1

Turkey, Great Britain and Tanzania are the first to open borders for Russian travelers[...]
Pobeda airlines fleet

Pobeda Airlines to take four aircraft within a week

Aeroflot’s low-cost division expects to bring its fleet to 34 Boeing 737-800s by the end of July[...]
Wizz Air Ukraine

Wizz Air to grow its network in Ukraine to 77 routes

With addition of 14 new routes to Italy the LCC now flies to 15 countries from five Ukrainian airports[...]
St. Peterburg Pulkovo

Domestic traffic through Russia's St. Petersburg airport recovers completely

Pulkovo claims to outperform London’s Heathrow, Munich and Oslo in July so far[...]
Russia's flying wing

Russia completes second stage of wind tunnel tests on a model of an advanced flying wing commercial airliner

Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute tested a scaled model for aerodynamic interference[...]

Aeroflot Group to let one airline go

The move paves the way for Aurora being the backbone of large regional carrier in Russia’s Far East[...]
Aeroflot strategy

Aeroflot Group targets 130 million passengers and 590 aircraft by 2028

Group’s general director Vitaly Saveliev showcases the new eight-year strategy[...]
Russian airlines traffic

Russian airlines’ June traffic at 22.5 per cent of 2019 level

Privately-run S7 Airlines has remained the country’s largest airline for three months in a row[...]
CR929

CR929 programme runs into more delays

The Sino-Russian wide-body project is plagued with communication issues[...]
SkyUp

Insight: Ukraine’s SkyUp expects traffic to reach 2019 levels this year

Young hybrid airline is to add another Boeing 737NG to its 11-strong fleet[...]

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 restrict flights

Russia extends restrictions on international flights till August

Other countries are in no rush to open borders to Russian travelers either[...]

Russia's Azur Air resumes passenger flights

The international leisure charter carrier has launched scheduled domestic service[...]


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