Superjet 100 flies with Russian engines
Locally-made PD-8 replace the Franco-Russian SaM146 turbofans, the production of which was suspended in 2022 [...]
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Supporting Russia’s fleet of Western-built aircraft is a humanitarian necessity – AmCham Russia
The U.S. business urged to lift aviation sanctions on Russia [...]
Rosaviatsiya: Russian airlines’ passenger traffic to decline in 2025
Country’s aviation regulator expects 109.7 million passengers to be transported this year [...]
Aeroflot promotes initiative towards harmonization of Russia’s continued airworthiness system with international standards
Russia needs to adapt its continued airworthiness regulations in a way that would be harmonized with ICAO principles [...]
Russian airlines 2024 traffic exceeds the pre-sanctions level
The passenger number growth was achieved through international traffic increase [...]
Aeroflot continues regional hubs development
Aeroflot Group airlines achieved operational growth at all its key regional bases [...]
Russia’s Utair saw its traffic grow by 5.8% in 2024
This is still 17.5% below the level achieved in pre-crisis 2019 [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic grew by 4.8% in September, helped by abnormally warm weather
Domestic passenger traffic returned to growth [...]
S7 Airlines switches to Russian ACARS
The locally-provided service now covers all of the airline’s main routes [...]
Russian domestic passenger air traffic starts a slow descent
The number of passengers on domestic flights fell by 1.4% year-on-year in July [...]
Russia’s Azur Air carried more than 1 million passengers in six months
...but this is only 45% of the pre-pandemic level [...]
Russia’s aviation authorities anticipate seven per cent traffic decline in 2024
Country’s passenger numbers may fall due to forced grounding of dozens of GTF-powered A320neos [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic to BRICS countries short of 50% of the pre-pandemic level
Traffic to BRICS countries represents 10% of Russia’s total international traffic in 2023 [...]
The number of passengers at Russian airports increased by 6.7%
Traffic at Russia’s airports in five months reached 78.8 million [...]
Russian lessor GTLK estimated the loss from liquidation of its Irish business at 2.49 billion roubles
GTLK lost access to 37 aircraft stranded outside
Russia [...]
The second Ilyushin IL-114-300 prototype turboprop has made its maiden flight
Regional aircraft program resumes flight test program [...]
Russian airlines increased passenger traffic by 8.8% in January-February
15 million passengers were carrier in first two months of 2024 [...]
Russia admits challenges with import phaseout in commercial airplane manufacturing
Delivery of Russified Superjet and MC-21 versions shift to 2025-2026 [...]
Russian airlines’ passenger traffic grew 7.9 per cent in January
LCC Pobeda became second largest airline [...]
Imported components on commercial aircraft will be replaced in two years – Russian ministry
According to the government's earlier plans, this should be done in 2024 [...]
Combined fleet of Russia’s five largest airlines cleared for international flights grew by almost 100 aircraft in a week
Private carriers settle claims with foreign lessors for the first time [...]
Russia’s Utair passenger numbers increase 9,4% in nine months of 2023
A privately-owned airline’s traffic now stands at 84% of 2019 levels [...]
Russia’s international air traffic rose to its highest level since the pandemic
But this is still only 39.5% of pre-COVID levels [...]
Russian airlines’ October traffic down 25%
In the first ten months of 2022 Russian airlines saw their traffic decline by 14.3 per cent year-on-year [...]
Russia allows to return two Boeing 737MAXs to foreign lessors
S7 Airlines gets government’s approval for returning idling aircraft [...]
MC-21 powered by Russian-made engines completes 100 flights in 20 months
Certification programme requires 140 more flights [...]
Aeroflot Group turns Sochi into an international hub
The location is ideal for SSJ100 operations [...]
Armenian and Georgian airlines jointly ordered three Boeing 737-800BCFs
Deliveries of the converted freighters are slated to start next year [...]
Aeroflot: developing Krasnoyarsk regional hub still high priority
Russian flag carrier’s second hub in the heart of Siberia demonstrates good results in its first full year in operation [...]
Azimuth Airlines to open maintenance hangar in Rostov in 2023
Construction requires investment of 800 million roubles [...]
Russian airlines’ January traffic just 4 per cent short of the norm
And 47 per cent above January 2021 [...]
Russia’s MC-21-300 airliner began cold soak trials to extend its base type certificate
Work on optimizing the new generation aircraft’s structure and expanding its envelope continues [...]
S7 Technics expanded range of its services in 2021
Gradual recovery of Russian airlines’ flight hours translated into increasing volumes of MRO [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic recovery rates slow down in November
Aeroflot and Ural Airlines show decline, Pobeda and Rossiya grow fast, S7 improving [...]
Air Astana performs first in-house C-Check at Nur-Sultan MRO facility
Kazakhstan’s national carrier takes more heavy checks back home [...]
Russian airlines’ monthly traffic stabilizes at near pre-crisis level
Traffic numbers for nine months are still 15.7 per cent below 2019 [...]
Three Russian airlines boost operational performance well above pre-crisis levels
All three are economy-class only, with growth rates up to 90 per cent [...]
Uzbekistan Express yet another LCC brand in the CIS
Uzbekistan’s national airline launches low fare travel on all-economy Airbus A320s [...]
Rossiya becomes Russia’s third airline with fleet exceeding 100 aircraft
Aeroflot group’s carrier is on track to becoming the country’s largest airline by fleet size in two years [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic reaches 88 per cent of pre-crisis levels in July
The country’s air travel market continues on a steady recovery track [...]
S7 Group’s low-cost offshoot to take-off in mid-2022
Russia’s largest privately-owned aviation holding to launch stand alone carrier operating A320neos [...]
All-Superjet 100 operator to become Russia’s first operator of Airbus A220
Azimuth Airlines will become a new Airbus operator in Russia next year [...]
Aeroflot Group airlines strengthen their positions in June
Russian airlines combined traffic resulted 13.5 per cent below same month of 2019 [...]
Kazakhstan’s Air Astana returns to profit, but cautious on the remainder of the year
Domestic passengers grew 31 per cent over 2019 [...]
Russian airlines’ May passenger traffic was down only 19.7 per cent on 2019
Increased domestic market activity contributed to positive traffic recovery trend [...]
Russia’s Smartavia to acquire 40 brand new Airbus A320neos and become a low-cost carrier
Private airline contracted seven neos for the next year delivery [...]
Aeroflot reclaims leadership of the Russian market
Russian airlines’ April traffic down 23 per cent on pre-crisis levels [...]
Rosaviatsiya boss: Russia will need 700 new aircraft by 2030
The number of Western-built aircraft operated by Russian airlines has grown by 25 per cent since 2017 [...]
Russia’s airline passenger traffic down 37 per cent in February, on the climb
S7 Airlines is still leading the market, LCC Pobeda Airlines enjoys three per cent growth [...]
Aeroflot resumes taking deliveries of Western-built aircraft
Aurum Leasing delivered a new B777-300 aircraft on lease to Aeroflot [...]