Russia’s government commits to protecting airlines from bankruptcy
The country’s minister for economic development, has promised state support for the acutely disrupted air travel industry [...]
Coronavirus (Covid-19)
The Civil Aviation Administration of Kazakhstan says the country’s airlines have lost an estimated US$551 million
CAAKZ: the air transport sector needs state support because of the Coronavirus crisis [...]
Ural Airlines parks a third of its aircraft fleet
Russian carrier’s route network had decreased by more than 50 per cent [...]
Russia’s largest airport presents two possible crisis development scenarios
Sheremetyevo is not anticipating the re-launch of international services before July [...]
Russian airlines traffic numbers slumped by 26.6 per cent in March
LCC Pobeda was the only one in the top-five to see year-on-year growth in the first month of the Coronavirus crisis [...]
Russia’s combined active wide-body aircraft fleet is slashed six-fold
The enforced aircraft grounding has affected dozens of Russian and foreign lessors [...]
airBaltic cuts its capacity for the months ahead and receives financial support
The Latvian government has approved a €36.1 million loan for the carrier it majority owns [...]
The air transport enterprises deemed ‘strategic’ by the Russian government
The updated version of the list of companies eligible for state support has finally been released [...]
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 [...]
Avion Express enters the cargo transportation market
The Lithuanian ACMI carrier switches its current focus from passengers to freight [...]
Russia’s busiest airport closes three of its five passenger terminals
Severely reduced operations have forced Sheremetyevo to scale down [...]
Russian government adds large regional airports to ‘strategic enterprises’ list
As the country’s airports have already lost some 75 per cent of their expected traffic [...]
Small Russian airlines ask for government help
All country’s airlines should be equally eligible for state support, experts believe [...]
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 [...]
VTB Leasing grants lease payments holiday to another Russian airline
Russia’s state-owned lessor has agreed a bailout deferment plan with Utair [...]
Full lock-down of domestic air travel in Russia is a possibility
The Russian government is considering imposing restrictions on movements within the country [...]
Just before the crisis: Russian airlines’ positive operational performances for January and February 2020
These two months are the final period of ‘normal life’ that will be used as the baseline for all future comparisons [...]
LCC Pobeda is Russia’s first big airline to voluntarily suspend all operations
Because of the COVID-19 fallout, all flights of Aeroflot's low-cost subsidiary have now been grounded for two months [...]
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 [...]
Interview: Andrey Egorov, general director of KrasAvia, on the COVID-19 crisis, the ATR-72 project and the woes of the depressed oil industry
“In our industry people are too valuable to cast aside. So we’ll try to survive together.” [...]
Blitz-Interview: Smartavia’s Viktor Anoshkin on the airline’s operations amidst the COVID-19 crisis
“Airline bankruptcies are likely to follow, and the recovery period won’t be a quick one” [...]
Aeroflot granted a period of grace for lease payments on 67 aircraft
Following Russia’s airline group’s arrangement with VTB Leasing, it is now anticipating similar indulgences from other state lessors [...]
Fitch revises Aeroflot’s outlook to ‘negative’ and affirms its rating as ‘BB’
The Russian flag carrier's 'BB' status reflects a two-notch uplift for state support [...]
Russia suspends all international air connections
Aeroflot has been granted monopoly rights to continue flights to the world’s capital cities, most of which are now inaccessible [...]
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 [...]
Russia’s S7 Airlines takes another Airbus A320neo as it continues domestic flying
SMBC Aviation Capital has delivered the third unit of an eight aircraft deal to the country’ biggest private carrier [...]
Russian commercial aviation in a battle for survival
The Russian Association of Air Transport Operators has pleaded to take urgent measures to protect Russia’s air transport industry from collapse [...]
Opinion: Peter Griffiths, director general at Aviation administration of Kazakhstan
View of the current challenges facing the aviation industry [...]
Russia’s aviation authority concerned about the financial health of local airlines
Fundamental, structural changes seem inevitable [...]
Russia extends its air connections ban to USA, Great Britain and UAE
Flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport to New York, London and Abu Dhabi are exempt from restrictions [...]
Aeroflot extends elite level status for loyalty programme members by one year
The move is a reward for the loyalty of the Russian flag-carrier’s frequent fliers who are forced to limit their travel in the current environment [...]
Despite the hiatus, new international flights are launched to Russian airports
Moscow welcomes its first flight from Nha Trang, and Vladivostok now has more connections with Tokyo’s Narita [...]
Kazakhstan develops domestic market as all international air connections suspended
Central Asian country suspends all international routes until April 15 [...]
Latvia’s airBaltic suspends all flight operations from March 17
To limit the spread of COVID-19, the government of the Baltic country is tightening security measures by suspending international air traffic [...]
Russian and Chinese engineers collaborate remotely on the CR929 due to coronavirus threat
All off-line communications for the joint wide-body aircraft programme have been suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak [...]
Coronavirus forces Aeroflot to postpone the launch of its first regional hub
Krasnoyarsk flight programme will be re-visited in the summer [...]
Russia imposes severe restrictions on air connections with Europe
Coincident with the WHO’s declaration that COVID-19 is now pandemic, flights to France, Germany, Italy and Spain are to be operated exclusively by Aeroflot [...]
Ukraine International reduces its flight schedule in response to Coronavirus
Routes serving Italy, Israel and Turkey are affected as well as some domestic flights [...]
Latvia’s flag carrier cuts capacity and reduces staff
As airBaltic cancels a total of 580 flights, the number of its employees is being reduced by 250 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Russia’s air travel industry hit by the spread of coronavirus
With Russian airlines suspending flights to China, the country has joined Egypt, Ukraine and Georgia on the list of banned/restricted destinations [...]