All Aeroflot articles – Page 4

  • Pobeda 737-c-Pobeda
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    Aeroflot approves transfer of 10 737-800s to Pobeda

    2021-03-11T23:06:00Z

    Aeroflot’s board has approved the transfer of 10 Boeing 737-800s from its fleet to that of its low-cost budget sister carrier Pobeda. The aircraft will be sub-leased from April-June this year according to the board decision, although the possibility of a postponement remains. Aeroflot Group says the lease periods range ...

  • Rossiya 747
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    Aeroflot Group impairs Rossiya goodwill and Aurora disposal

    2021-03-10T21:19:00Z

    Aeroflot Group has disclosed a Rb6.5 billion ($88 million) write-off of goodwill for its subsidiary airline Rossiya in its full-year financial results. The company has also listed a Rb5.07 billion loss from the disposal of another subsidiary, the eastern Russian carrier Aurora which it sold for the token sum of ...

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    Pobeda to open second Moscow base with flights from Sheremetyevo

    2021-02-27T19:03:00Z

    Russian budget carrier Pobeda is to open services from a second Moscow base, operating from the capital’s Sheremetyevo airport. Pobeda is part of Aeroflot Group alongside Aeroflot and Rossiya. Moscow Sheremetyevo is Aeroflot’s main base. The expansion will involve Pobeda’s opening services to 12 cities in Russia, as well as ...

  • Aeroflot fleet
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    ​Aeroflot losses hit $1.3 billion in 2020

    2021-02-05T15:02:00Z

    Russian flag carrier Aeroflot incurred a net loss in 2020 amid slumping revenue as passenger numbers were hammered by the Covid-19 crisis.

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    Budget airline Pobeda proves resilient as Russian full-year traffic halves

    2021-01-18T08:29:00Z

    Russian airlines’ passenger traffic halved over the course of last year, official figures from the federal air transport regulator show. Rosaviatsia states that overall traffic was down by 52% with passenger numbers down 46% to 69.2 million. But the fall was not indiscriminate across the Russian carriers. Aeroflot Group’s budget ...

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    Rossiya aims to have nearly 70 Superjets next year

    2020-12-29T12:01:00Z

    Russian operator Rossiya aims to introduce a fleet of nearly 70 Sukhoi Superjet 100s by the end of next year, as part of a strategic overhaul of Aeroflot Group’s operations. Rossiya says the federal aviation regulator Rosaviatsia has included the Superjet type on the carrier’s air operator’s certificate, ahead of ...

  • Cabin crew
    Airline Business

    How many jobs have Europe’s airlines cut in 2020?

    2020-12-24T12:15:00Z

    Tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in Europe’s airline sector since the crisis began, as carriers seek to reduce cash burn and ‘right-size’ for the eventual recovery in demand.

  • SSJ100-c-Sukhoi
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    Initial Rossiya Superjets to be stationed at Sheremetyevo

    2020-12-23T08:22:00Z

    Russian operator Rossiya is to base its initial Sukhoi Superjet 100s at Moscow Sheremetyevo, as it prepares to start receiving the type under an agreement with parent Aeroflot Group. Rossiya says the agreement to transfer the aircraft from the Aeroflot fleet was signed on 21 December, and that it will ...

  • Aeroflot SSJ100-c-Aeroflot
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    Aeroflot approves transfer of over 40 Superjets to Rossiya

    2020-12-18T08:37:00Z

    Aeroflot has approved plans to transfer over 40 Sukhoi Superjet 100s from its fleet to sister carrier Rossiya, as part of a restructuring of its short-haul network operations. Over the course of December this year to August 2021 it intends to shift 17 aircraft leased from Sberbank, another 20 from ...

  • Aurora-c-Aurora
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    Aeroflot Group to divest eastern carrier Aurora

    2020-12-17T19:19:00Z

    Aeroflot Group is to withdraw from the ownership of eastern Russian carrier Aurora Airlines, by selling its majority stake in the company. Aurora Airlines serves a route network from Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok. It operates a fleet of 10 Airbus A319s as well as about a dozen turboprops, mainly Bombardier ...

  • Pobeda-c-Pobeda
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    Aeroflot Group claims Pobeda profitable despite crisis

    2020-12-01T12:03:00Z

    Aeroflot Group is highlighting the performance of its budget arm Pobeda, posting a net profit for the carrier for both the third quarter and the first nine months of this year. The company says Pobeda increased passenger numbers during the quarter, compared with last year, and achieved load factors up ...

  • Mikhail Poluboyarinov-c-Aeroflot
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    Aeroflot names GTLK ex-head Poluboyarinov as new chief

    2020-11-21T18:34:00Z

    Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot’s board has elected Mikhail Poluboyarinov, the former head of state leasing firm GTLK, as its new chief executive. He will succeed Vitaly Saveliev who has been appointed as the new Russian transport minister – while the former transport minister, Yevgeny Ditrikh, is taking over as head of ...

  • Saveliev
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    Aeroflot chief Saveliev to become Russian transport minister

    2020-11-10T17:50:00Z

    Long-serving Aeroflot Group chief executive Vitaly Saveliev is set to become Russian transport minister after he was nominated for the role by prime minister Mikhail Mishustin. The transport ministry says that Saveliev will take over, following a Russian presidential decree dated 10 November. Saveliev has led the Russian carrier group ...

  • Azimuth Superjet 100-c-Azimuth
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    Three Russian operators to take Superjets through leasing tie-up

    2020-11-09T11:35:00Z

    Three Russian carriers are to be supplied with a total of eight Sukhoi Superjet 100s under an agreement reached between airframer Irkut and PSB Leasing. Aeroflot is to take five of the twinjet type, another pair will go to Azimuth Airlines, and one to Red Wings. The Azimuth and Red ...

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    Domestic demand bolsters Aeroflot revenue

    2020-10-30T17:38:00Z

    Russian carrier Aeroflot saw quarter-on-quarter rises in passenger demand and revenue during the three months ended 30 September, underpinned by strong domestic demand. Although third-quarter revenue was down 67% on last year’s, at Rb55.2 billion ($695 million), the carrier notes that load factors and yields were at “comparable levels”. Still, ...

  • Aeroflot A350-c-Aeroflot
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    Aeroflot Group details shareholding shifts after capital increase

    2020-10-26T09:27:00Z

    Aeroflot Group has disclosed that the Russian state’s share in the airline company has reached 57.34% as a result of its capital increase. The Russian government had been prepared to maintain at least its previous 51.2% shareholding in the company during the share issue. Aeroflot Group had also been 3.5%-owned ...

  • Aeroflot A350-c-Aeroflot
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    Aeroflot Group aims to raise Rb80bn through share placement

    2020-10-02T12:25:00Z

    Aeroflot Group is aiming to raise at least Rb80 billion ($1 billion) through a capital increase involving the placement of new shares, in order to strengthen its liquidity. Although it had previously prepared to place up to 1.7 billion shares, the Russian operator says it has yet to determine the ...

  • MC-21 - Irkut
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    MC-21 deliveries to start ‘by the end’ of 2021: Russian industry minister

    2020-09-23T09:56:00Z

    First deliveries of the Irkut MC-21 to launch operator Aeroflot will take place by the end of 2021, according to Russian trade and industry minister Denis Manturov. Manturov says the combination of sanctions on the country and, in particular, the coronavirus situation have forced a delay to the twinjet’s flight-test ...

  • Aeroflot fleet
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    ​Aeroflot cleared to increase share capital

    2020-09-15T14:24:00Z

    Aeroflot has won shareholder approval to increase its authorised capital to 1.95 billion shares.

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    Airline Business

    Winter of disconnect ahead for Europe’s airlines

    2020-09-09T15:07:00Z

    There are few crumbs of comfort for European airlines as they look back on a worse-than-expected summer season and forward to what could be a bleak winter.