Reading Time: < 1 minute Aeroflot airline plans to receive 50 MC-21 aircraft in the coming years, the company’s statement says. “In the coming years we are expecting the delivery of 50 MC-21s, in addition, Aeroflot is considering the possibility of an additional increase in the fleet of domestic aircraft,” the report says. Aeroflot will be the first operator of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Russia’s two largest airline groups of Aeroflot (including the title carrier, Rossiya, low-cost carrier Pobeda and Aurora Airlines), and S7 Group (S7 Airlines and Globus), have reported all-year high traffic growth rates for July. In doing so, both groups have outperformed the Russian industry average of 6.3 per cent year-on-year, the year’s lowest, according to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute S7 Airlines, part of the oneworld alliance, announced a pilot of an aviation blockchain project. It partnered with fuel supplier Gazpromneft Aero and Alfa Bank to automate payments for fuel. How it works Without a blockchain fuel has to be paid in advance, or a bank guarantee is required. So avoiding both of these scenarios […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Russia is developing a prototype of a completely new vertical take-off plane on the instruction of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Tuesday. “This work has, indeed, been included in the state armament program and is being conducted on the instruction of the supreme commander-in-chief. Now work is underway to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), manufacturer of Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional airliner, suffered 804.7 million ruble (US$12 million) net losses in the first half of 2018. The company’s financial performance deteriorated by seven per cent compared to the same period last year, although it received a 47 per cent higher turnover, amounting […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Drivers had to wait for hours as the army blocked the road for a military drill on a so-called ‘airfield section’, specifically designed for aircraft landings. The highly unusual stunts were part of the ‘Vostok-2018’ military drill, which involved Su-25 attack aircraft, Su-30 and Su-35 fighter jets, MiG-31 interceptors, and various cargo planes. Such sections […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Yakutia Airlines plane en route from Yakutsk, the capital of Russia’s Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, to the the settlement of Chokurdakh in the north of the region, has returned to the airport of departure because of the malfunction of one of its engines, no one was injured, the air carrier’s press service informed TASS on […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Russian flag carrier Aeroflot is to buy back shares from those stakeholders who disagreed with the major lease deal of 50 advanced, Russian-made MC-21-300 narrow-body aircraft. An extraordinary meeting of the airline’s board of directors established that the national carrier will take back 47,817,796 shares at a total value of US$107 million. Russian legislation allows […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A double-decker Boeing 747 with one malfunctioning engine has successfully landed in Moscow Vnukovo Airport. The huge Rossiya Airlines plane managed to safely land in after one of its four engines reportedly had failed mid-flight around 1pm local time on Tuesday. The plane took off from Larnaca, a popular tourists destination in Cyprus. About 500 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The MiG-31 fighter jets operated by the Russian Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation have performed a 4,000-kilometer long-haul flight to the Arctic Region. During the flight tactical exercise in the Kamchatka Region (in Russia’s Far East), the pilots of the mixed regiment of the Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation have performed a long-haul flight to the Arctic […]