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 [...]
Operational Performance
Ukraine’s SkyUp quadrupled its operational results last year
The start-up hybrid carrier extended its reach by adding 40 new destinations and by doubling the size of its fleet [...]
Air Serbia’s 2019 passenger traffic rises to a new 2.81 million record
Serbia's national carrier launched 23 new routes from three airports last year [...]
Ukraine’s Windrose Airlines’ passenger traffic grew by 11.2 per cent last year
The predominantly international charter carrier is now targeting more domestic services [...]
Azerbaijan’s airports served a record number of passengers in 2019
Passenger traffic through the Caucasus country’s airports reached 5.56 million [...]
Traffic through Kazakhstan’s airports grew by 13 per cent last year
The growth is attributable to the launch of new routes, lower fares, improved transfer connections and infrastructure development [...]
Georgia’s airlines lose domestic market share
Instead, foreign carriers served 90 per cent of passengers travelling through the country's airports last year [...]
Bringing in Superjet 100s influenced Severstal Airlines traffic growth last year
The Russian regional airline’s operational results improved by 30 per cent in 2019 [...]
Launch of low-cost division lifts Air Astana Group’s traffic by 17 per cent
Without the inclusion of its FlyArystan subsidiary’s operational performance, Kazakhstan’s national carrier grew by a mere one per cent last year [...]
S7 Airlines’ passenger traffic grew by 12.4 per cent last year
Russia’s second biggest airline carried 17.945 million passengers in 2019 [...]
Aeroflot’s new regional bases unveil their 2019 performance figures
Russia’s three hubs, located beyond the Ural mountain range, post their results [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan carried 700,580 passengers in its first eight months
The central Asian country’s start-up budget airline is planning to grow its A320 fleet from four to 10 aircraft in 2020 [...]
airBaltic carried 22 per cent more passengers in 2019
Record traffic helped the Latvian carrier to maintain its status as the largest in the Baltics [...]
Belarus’ Minsk airport continues on its double-digit growth flight path
The nation’s capital city airport handled more than five million passengers last year [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic grew by 10.2 per cent last year, air transport authority reports
In 2019, the country’s airlines collectively carried a record number of 128.1 million passengers [...]
Ukrainian airlines’ passenger growth slowed in 2019
The country’s carriers collectively served some 13.7 million passengers, up 9.5 per cent on the year earlier [...]
Passenger numbers grew by seven per cent for Russia’s Ural Airlines last year
The airline’s traffic fell short of its 10 million target due to the delays of the Boeing 737 MAX deliveries [...]
Belavia’s annual traffic to exceed 4 million passengers for the first time
Belarus’ flag carrier rapid fleet expansion is behind the airline’s improved operational performance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Air Astana Group’s preliminary 2019 operational results suggest a ‘break-through’ year
Kazakhstan’s flag carrier and its LCC division have served an estimated 17% more passengers this year and anticipate further growth in 2020 [...]
Georgian airports’ traffic growth slumps from 24 to two per cent
Russia’s ban on direct air service to Georgia has affected the country’s airports [...]
Russia’s carriers transported close to 100 million passengers in the first nine months of 2019
11.2 per cent improvement year-on-year [...]
Russian airlines’ passenger traffic growth slowed down in September
Flag carrier Aeroflot’s figures were flat in the month [...]
SmartLynx increases the number of operated flights by a third
Latvia’s ACMI and charter carrier’s fleet has grown to 24 Airbus A320-family aircraft [...]
Russian airlines continue solid passenger traffic growth in first eight months of 2019
But most of regional carriers have failed to grow their business [...]
Ukraine’s passenger airline traffic grew by 10.7 per cent in the first eight months of 2019
The country’s airports served 19.4 per cent more passengers in the period [...]
Aeroflot Group’s passenger numbers up by 12.2 per cent in first seven months of 2019
.. but Aeroflot airline’s domestic passenger traffic dropped by 1.4 per cent in July [...]
Volga-Dnepr changes management and launches a restructuring plan
Decisions prompted by disappointing first-half year operational and financial results of Russia’s cargo giant [...]
Air Astana’s financial results improved in the first half of 2019
Even though the leading Kazakhstan carrier’s traffic remained flat [...]
Ukrainian airlines’ passenger traffic grew by 10.9% in the first seven months
Collectively, the carriers transported a total of 7.65 million passengers in the January-July 2019 period [...]
Azerbaijan served more than three million air passengers in the first seven months of 2019
Of these, 2.6 million passed through the capital city airport of Baku [...]
Russian airlines’ passenger traffic growth remained solid in July
Passenger air traffic growth in the mid-summer month amounted to 9.9 per cent [...]
Kazakhstan’s passenger traffic declined by three per cent in the first half of 2019
The numbers decreased despite the emergence of FlyArystan, the country's first LCC [...]
Aeroflot improves its position among top 20 global airlines
Russia’s biggest airline holding ranked 18th globally in 2018 [...]
Ukraine’s SkyUp carries 668,500 passengers in six months
The start-up hybrid carrier’s share of scheduled traffic continues to rise [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic grew by 9.5 per cent in June
Aeroflot grew at a slow rate of 3.3%, while its subsidiary LCC Pobeda produced a 43.2% improvement [...]
Ukraine International’s passenger traffic grows by eight per cent
UIA carried nearly four million passengers in the first half of this year [...]
Qazaq Air switches its base airport
Kazakhstan’s regional airline increased its passenger traffic by 16 per cent in 1H2019 [...]
Russia’s airlines enjoy collective 12.3 per cent traffic growth
The country's carriers served a combined total of 44.9 million passengers in the first five months of this year [...]
FORECAST: Nine per cent growth expected for Russian airlines this year
Russian think-tank TCH warns about overloaded Moscow airports and the necessity of developing regional flows [...]
Russian carriers kept double-digit growth in May’s passenger numbers
The country’s airlines served some 10.54 million passengers in May [...]
Russia’s airlines increase their passenger traffic by 11.8 per cent
Collectively, they carried more than 34 million passengers in four months of 2019 [...]
Ukraine’s SkyUp enjoys a buoyant first year of operations
The start-up grows its fleet to seven B737s, transported 870,000 passengers [...]
Network expansion boosts S7 Airlines’ passenger numbers
Russia’s second largest airline group enjoys 19.4% growth rate in April [...]
Ural Airlines increased passenger numbers in the first four months of 2019
Russia’s fifth biggest carrier flies 2.5 million people at the start of the year [...]
Russian airlines’ April passenger traffic growth remains high at 12 per cent
LCC Pobeda continues to lead the way with mid double-digit growth [...]
Moldovan air carriers lose home market share
Despite market growth, the country’s airlines have suffered a decline in traffic numbers [...]
Gazpromavia’s helicopters fly less
Utilisation has fallen by 48.8 per cent over the past five years [...]
Estonia’s Nordica first quarter traffic is down by 16 per cent
However its subcontracted, profitable third-party services increased [...]