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 [...]
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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 [...]
January proves better than December for Russia’s airlines
Total traffic was 38 per cent down Y-on-Y, private S7 Airlines still leads the market [...]
Russia’s best performing airline lost only 2.7% of its traffic in 2020
Thanks to large domestic market, Russian carriers cope with the coronavirus crisis better than other regions [...]
2020 first year without traffic growth for Russia’s LCC Pobeda Airlines
However, Aeroflot’s low-cost subsidiary reports $19 mln net profits for the crisis year [...]
Russian airlines’ passenger traffic down 46 per cent in 2020
Aeroflot remained the country’s largest carrier last year [...]
Kazakhstan’s LCC FlyArystan targets to double traffic this year
Air Astana’s LCC division FlyArystan proceeds on its expansion path with plans to add more aircraft and launch new routes [...]
Red Wings to double fleet in 2021 by adding SSJ100s, A320s and B777s
The Russian airline plans to bring in the total of 20 aircraft this year despite prolongued crisis [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic down 48 per cent in November
Compared to October, the decline in traffic numbers has aggravated [...]
Kazakh LCC FlyArystan’s fleet grows to seven aircraft
Air Astana’s low-cost division continues expansion [...]
Russian airlines’ passenger numbers down 32.5 per cent in September
This is the best result since April for the local industry [...]
Russia’s Ural Airlines takes another Airbus A321
The private carrier is to take two more of the type before the end of the year [...]
Russia’s Azimuth Airlines is the leader in Superjet 100 utilisation rates
The world's only operator of fleet composed entirely of SSJ100 managed to grow its passenger traffic by 3.4 per cent in August [...]
Russian airlines’ traffic reaches 63.4 per cent of 2019 level in August
Low-cost carrier Pobeda boasts double-digit growth amidst the turbulent market [...]
Russia’s Red Wings starts transformation into role-model SSJ100 operator
UAC-owned airline has taken delivery of the first of the batch of 60 SSJ100 and reveals plans for further development of its ambitious project [...]
TsAGI wins $18.4 mln state grant for supersonic research
Russia funds launch a dedicated scientific center for low-boom supersonic development [...]
Pobeda Airlines demonstrates traffic growth in July
Unlike the low-cost carrier, Russian airline industry’s average was at 47.2 per cent of July 2019 [...]
Rossiya Airlines: from 62 Western-built aircraft to 235 Russian-made jets in eight years
Aeroflot Group has designed a whole new future for its St. Petersburg-based subsidiary [...]
Russia’s LCC Pobeda develops new fleet plan focused around A321neo
Nation’s only budget carrier plans to have 113 large Airbus narrow-bodies by 2028 [...]
Aeroflot airline to reinvent its fleet with Airbus’ new generation aircraft only
Russia’s flag carrier considers to acquire 80 A350s and 94 A320neo family aircraft through 2028 [...]
Russia to re-launch international air travel on August 1
Turkey, Great Britain and Tanzania are the first to open borders for Russian travelers [...]
Wizz Air to grow its network in Ukraine to 77 routes
With addition of 14 new routes to Italy the LCC now flies to 15 countries from five Ukrainian airports [...]
Domestic traffic through Russia’s St. Petersburg airport recovers completely
Pulkovo claims to outperform London’s Heathrow, Munich and Oslo in July so far [...]