Russia and Cyprus free up air connection
The two countries have agreed to remove restrictions on the number of designated carriers [...]
Regulation
Europe recognizes SSJ 100 capable of autolanding
EASA validated the aircraft’s Russian certificate for CAT IIIa landing [...]
Russia lifts import duties for Superjet 100 rivals
The new rules of the Eurasian Economic Union call for duty-free import of passenger aircraft with 51-300 seat capacity [...]
Open skies accord between Ukraine, US comes into force
The liberalization agreement signed in the summer of 2015 comes into force [...]
Kazakhstan postpones IOSA certification
Half of the country’s airlines can stop operations if they don’t pass the safety audit. [...]
Russian Parliament approves drone registration rules
All UAVs weighing over 250 g are to be registered as aircraft, the government says, over concern of their use for terrorist acts [...]
Russian subsidy programs: fewer routes, fewer airlines
The Russian government has cut the number of subsidized inter-regional routes for 2016 [...]
European Commission removes Air Astana from blacklist
All of the restrictions, which applied to the Kazakhstan's national carrier European operations are now lifted [...]
Russia, Germany expand bilateral air services agreement
Aviation authorities of the two countries have agreed on a number of amendments to the documents that regulate bilateral air traffic [...]
Russia puts a ban on charter flights to Turkey
Turkey has topped the list of charter destinations for years. Regular flights, not affected by the ban, have not been so popular [...]
Russia to shift certification functions from IAC to national authorities
The certification power of the supranational Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) in place for over two decades becomes void after a scandal over Boeing 737 type certificate [...]
Ukraine forbids Russian airlines to overfly its territory
The measure, likely to seriously affect Ukraine's air traffic service provider, is irrelevant for Russian carriers [...]
EgyptAir banned from flying to Russia
The Russian authorities say the Egyptian carrier will be able to resume flights after it improves its security procedures. [...]
Third-party carriers capitalize on Ukrainian, Russian air travel bans
Airlines from the CIS countries are launching connection flights taking advantage of transit traffic [...]
Transaero Airlines: too big to fail or to support?
The fate of Russia’s second largest carrier will reshape the country’s commercial aviation market [...]
Pulkovo lobbies visa waiver, fifth air freedom
St. Petersburg's airport challenges current regulations in search of new sources of international traffic [...]
Russian officials to use domestic airlines for business travel
Unless no service to their destination is available, other than provided by a foreign carrier [...]
Saratov Airlines loses its international business over security violation
Russian regulator punished the airline for letting a non-crew employee visit the cockpit during flight [...]
Russia closes its airspace to Ukrainian carriers
As a symmetric measure to Ukrainian ban, Russian Transport Minister stops Russia-bound flights of three Ukrainian airlines [...]