Pulkovo airport to introduce seventh freedom of air starting early 2020
Several European LCCs have already expressed their interest in launching flights to St. Petersburg [...]
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Kazakhstan’s Qazaq Air’s passenger traffic grew by 24 per cent in 2019
But competition with fellow discounter FlyArystan left it short of its target [...]
Azerbaijan’s AZAL acquires an Embraer E190 full flight simulator for US$11.5m
It will be used to train pilots for LCC Buta Airways and to expand the capabilities of its Flight Training Centre [...]
Sheremetyevo and Aeroflot: growing together
Aeroflot benefits from Russia’s convenient geography to develop passenger flows between Europe and Asia [...]
Insight: Low-cost carrier Pobeda aims to outperform S7 Airlines
According to Aeroflot’s business strategy, its budget airline subsidiary may become Russia’s second largest carrier by 2023 [...]
Budget airline Wizz Air to serve Armenia from next March
Following on the heels of its arch rival Ryanair, the Hungarian LCC is to link Yerevan with Vilnius and Vienna [...]
Russia’s S7 re-allocates its aircraft within the group
Country’s second largest carrier S7 Airlines is close to absorbing its Globus subsidiary [...]
Aeroflot expands its Asia route offering with a second Japanese destination
The Russian flag carrier is to inaugurate direct Airbus A350 flights from Moscow to Osaka from next summer [...]
Gazpromneft-Aero brings aircraft re-fuelling out of the shadows
The Russian company, together with IFQP and JIG, is placing the business of jet re-fuelling in the spotlight via friendly international competitions [...]
All-Boeing fleet of Ukraine’s SkyUp reaches 10 aircraft
The young airline has accomplished its 2019 fleet strategy by doubling the number of its Boeing 737NGs [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan brings in a fourth aircraft and performs its first international flight
Zhukovsky, near to Moscow, is the Kazakh low-cost carrier’s first international destination [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic growth rate slows down towards the end of the year
The country’s airlines enjoyed 10.6 per cent passenger growth in the first 11 months of 2019 [...]
Azimuth Airlines’ all-Superjet 100 fleet grows to 11
A progressive fleet and network expansion programme has placed the Russian regional airline among the fastest growers in the market [...]
Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines to lease eight ATR 72s to bolster its domestic network
The Ukrainian airline is the second in the post-Soviet territory that is planning to add ATRs next year [...]
Aeroflot Group redistributes its Boeing 737 fleet
Eight Rossiya aircraft to be handed over to sister airlines Pobeda and Aeroflot [...]
Kazakhstan’s low-cost FlyArystan reveals its 2020 summer season plans
The budget airline is offering more than a million seats to 13 destinations [...]
Russia’s Aurora Airlines to double its fleet and passenger numbers by 2025
For the first time, the far eastern Aeroflot subsidiary has revealed ambitious plans [...]
airBaltic introduces a first Airbus A220 full-flight simulator
It is the first new FFS ever purchased by a Latvian company [...]
Russian airline IrAero ’s Boeing 777 project comes to another halt
Regional airline suspends wide-body services after Chinese partners pull out [...]
AtlasJet Ukraine temporarily loses its entire fleet
The Ukrainian subsidiary of Turkey’s AtlasGlobal has suspended all operations [...]
Qazaq Air confirms its safety compliance with IATA standards
The state-owned Kazakh regional carrier has renewed its IOSA operator status up to November 2021 [...]
Avia Prime acquires Jat Tehnika to become a notable MRO player in Europe
The Czech MRO group has added the Serbian company to its existing assets of Polish Linetech and Slovenian Adria Tehnika [...]
Aeroflot Group posts positive financial results for nine months of 2019
Good high summer season results helped Russia’s biggest airline grouping [...]
Russia’s Royal Flight cuts capacity
The leisure carrier has phased out two Boeing 757-200s [...]
Air Astana to launch new services from Almaty to Paris
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier will operate its new long-range A321neo LR narrow-body on the route [...]
airBaltic carried 22 per cent more passengers in the first 10 months of 2019
Latvia’s hybrid airline has phased-out three Boeing 737 Classics [...]
Russia’s NW Technic increases its share of third-party customers
Private aircraft maintenance specialist has significantly increased its productivity [...]
Russian leasing company to supply Tajikistan’s Somon Air with Embraer E190-E2 jets
VTB Leasing is to finance the acquisition by the Tajik flag carrier of two newest E-Jets with delivery planned for early 2020 [...]
The value of Russia’s LCC Pobeda is now US$800 million, Aeroflot boss claims
Country’s only budget carrier will celebrate the fifth anniversary in December [...]
Russia’s Azur Air’s all-Boeing fleet grows to 30 aircraft
In just five years, the Turkey-backed airline has grown into Russia’s seventh largest carrier [...]
Interview: Peter Foster, president and chief executive of Air Astana
‘When I entered the airline industry, it was inconceivable that I might end up running an airline in what was then in the Soviet Union’ [...]
Mongolia’s MIAT Technics gains approval to service Russian-registered aircraft
Russia’s aviation authorities have awarded an FAP-285 certificate to the MRO services provider [...]
Another SSJ100 delivery for Russia’s Azimuth is set for December
The country’s fastest growing airline has signed a leasing agreement with Russia’s largest lessor [...]
Aeroflot Group airline to acquire five Dash 8-400 turboprops
Aurora signs letter of intent to purchase five aircraft from De Havilland Canada [...]
Uzbekistan completes a key stage in the restructuring of its civil aviation
National carrier Uzbekistan Airways is now legally separated from the country’s airports operator [...]
All-Airbus operator FlyArystan to operate Boeing 737 MAX 8s
Kazakhstan flag carrier Air Astana, which is the owner of the LCC, is to order 30 B737 MAX 8s [...]
Russia’s Smartavia expands at St Petersburg as it continues fleet renewal
Second fastest growing airline is replacing its B737CL aircraft with NGs as it expands its service offering from Pulkovo [...]
Ural Airlines posts $50 million net profit in the 2019 three-quarter-year period
The Russian airline improved both its financial and operational performance [...]
Utair acquires more B737NGs while waiting for its delayed B737 MAXs
The Russian airline has signed a contract for two Boeing 737-800s and is negotiating for a further two [...]
A productive October for Russian airlines with an 11 per cent improvement
The nation’s carriers collectively transported 11 million passengers in the month [...]
Turkey is now Russia’s most popular international destination
In the domestic segment, the Moscow-St Petersburg route retains its leadership [...]
Air Astana completes its Embraer E190-E2 delivery contract
The Kazakhstan flag carrier now has five of the new-generation jets in its fleet [...]
Russia’s Utair navigates around bankruptcy – for now
The debt-ridden Russian major has won support from country’s largest bank as it posts US$15.5 million of net income [...]
Armenia’s ‘unsafe’ Taron-Avia ceases operations
Authorities revoke the airline’s Air Operator’s Certificate over safety violations [...]
Russia’s Pegas Group adds two Boeing 737-800s to its fleet
It brings the Nordwind Airlines and Pegas Fly combined fleet to 46 aircraft [...]
INSIGHT: Baku airport aims to boost its transit traffic
Azerbaijan’s capital airport is counting on its flag carrier and cloud technologies [...]
FlyArystan carries 455,000 passengers in its first six months of service
Kazakhstan’s first low-cost carrier stimulates domestic market growth [...]
Russian airport is first international destination for commercial operations of China’s ARJ21-700 regional jet
Vladivostok is the world’s first airport to accept the Comac ARJ21-700 operated by Chengdu Airlines [...]
The MRO industry in Russia: Changing market forces
Growing passenger numbers and a fleet increasingly made up of Western-built aircraft are creating new opportunities for the Russian MRO market [...]
Russia’s IzhAvia utilises its first Western-built aircraft in 75 years
The central Russian regional airline has been chartering a B737-800 for flights to Moscow and St Petersburg [...]