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    Aeroflot chief aims to wet-lease capacity from international market

    8 Apr 2025

    Aeroflot chief executive Sergei Aleksandrovsky has told Russian president Vladimir Putin that the carrier is aiming to capitalise further on new wet-lease rules. The carrier was quick to take advantage of a change to the Russian Air Code which enabled it to lease Airbus A330s in the domestic market – ...

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    Aeroflot Superjet fatal fire inquiry highlights aisle jam as passengers retrieved luggage

    31 Mar 2025

    Russian investigators believe passengers’ attempts to retrieve luggage during a fatal Aeroflot Superjet 100 fire probably slowed evacuation, and was a contributor to the severity of the outcome. Forty passengers and one flight attendant did not survive the fire, which ignited as fuel spilled from ruptured fuel tanks during a ...

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    Aeroflot and regulator dispute inquiry findings over Superjet's fatal bounced landing

    31 Mar 2025

    Both Aeroflot and Russian civil air transport regulator Rosaviatsia have dissented over investigators’ conclusions regarding the fatal hard landing and fire which destroyed a Superjet 100 nearly six years ago. Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee says the Aeroflot crew had “insufficient knowledge and skills” to control the jet in direct law, ...

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    Aeroflot claims A330 wet-lease is first such agreement since Russian rule change

    1 Dec 2024

    Aeroflot is claiming to be the first Russian carrier to introduce aircraft under wet-lease, following a change in the country’s air transport regulations. The airline has reached a preliminary agreement to take three Airbus A330s operated by Moscow-based Ifly. Ifly uses both A330-200s and -300s. Aeroflot says the Ifly wet-lease ...

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    Aeroflot switching completely to domestic software next year: chief

    10 Oct 2024

    Russian carrier Aeroflot expects to switch fully to domestically-developed software next year as part of its digitisation strategy, its chief executive has told the country’s prime minister. Aeroflot chief Sergei Alexandrovsky informed prime minister Mikhail Mishustin during a meeting that the company had achieved “significant progress” in transforming its digital ...

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    Aeroflot Group unifies crew training to provide single pilot source for carriers

    7 Oct 2024

    Russian operator Aeroflot Group is to create a single training entity which will supply pilots for all airlines within the company. Aeroflot will select graduates and students from civil aviation education institutions as part of the project. Along with the main Aeroflot operation – which carried 25 million passengers last ...

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    Aeroflot Group chief keen to use new wet-lease rules for Far East operations

    5 Sep 2024

    Aeroflot Group chief Sergei Alexandrovsky has expressed interest in taking advantage of new Russian regulations on leasing to support operations in the east of the country. Alexandrovsky spoke during a session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on 4 September. He stressed the importance of air transport to the ...

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    Aeroflot Group claims first-half net profit under international accounting

    29 Aug 2024

    Aeroflot Group is claiming a net profit of Rb42.3 billion ($462 million) over the first half of the year, under international accounting standards. It attributes the performance to higher traffic levels and load factor, combined with cost control. Adjusted for exchange-rate valuations and the effect of insurance settlement in the ...

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    Aeroflot files Rb7.3bn court claim against Yakovlev but reasons unclear

    6 Aug 2024

    Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has filed a claim against aerospace firm Yakovlev with the Moscow arbitration court. While the fundamental argument and details of the case have not been revealed, the claim sum disclosed by the court filing is just under Rb7.3 billion ($86 million). Yakovlev is the manufacturer of Superjet ...

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    Aeroflot claims lowest first-quarter net loss in five years

    3 May 2024

    Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has turned in a first-quarter net loss of Rb6.9 billion ($75.3 million), but states that this is its lowest loss for the period in five years. It says the result – under Russian accounting standards – illustrates a “trend of progressive improvement”. Aeroflot says it achieved the ...

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    Russian regulator tells carriers to consider cabin-heat risk in warm climates

    1 May 2024

    Russian regulators are instructing carriers to take steps to avoid cabin discomfort when operating to destinations in warm climates, after an incident involving an Aeroflot Airbus A330-300 in Bangkok.

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    Aeroflot Group settles claims on another batch of leased aircraft

    16 Feb 2024

    Aeroflot Group has reached financial settlements with lessors covering another seven aircraft.

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    Nearly 100 foreign aircraft transferred to Aeroflot Group: chief

    3 Jan 2024

    Aeroflot Group has transferred nearly 100 aircraft from foreign ownership, its chief executive has told Russian president Vladimir Putin during a briefing. Sergei Alexandrovsky stated that the group’s three carriers – Aeroflot, Rossiya and Pobeda – respectively ended the year with 171, 136 and 41 aircraft. Aeroflot Group has been ...

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    Aeroflot Group settles aircraft claims with lessor BOC Aviation

    9 Nov 2023

    Russian operator Aeroflot Group has settled with another lessor over its continued use of foreign-built aircraft. The company states that it has “completed” a settlement arrangement with the Irish arm of Singapore-based BOC Aviation. While Aeroflot Group has not disclosed terms, BOC Aviation states that it has received a cash ...

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    Aeroflot settles foreign-aircraft claim with lessor CDB Aviation

    12 Oct 2023

    Russian operator Aeroflot Group has reached another settlement over leased foreign aircraft, through a deal with CDB Aviation. The agreement with the Irish-based lessor covers four aircraft, but financial terms have not been revealed. Aeroflot says that, as a result of the settlement, the lessor has “ceased its claims” against ...

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    Russia’s Aeroflot Group reaches fleet settlement with another lessor

    3 Oct 2023

    Russian operator Aeroflot Group has disclosed a settlement with Irish lessor SMBC Aviation Capital, covering 17 aircraft. The settlement relates to foreign-built aircraft which were retained by Russian airlines in the aftermath of international sanctions imposed over the Ukrainian conflict. Aeroflot says that, under the agreement reached, the lessor has ...

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    Aeroflot Group reaches financial settlement with AerCap over batch of seized aircraft

    6 Sep 2023

    Russia’s Aeroflot Group says it has completed a settlement with lessor AerCap concerning a batch of aircraft operated by its carriers, which were retained as part of a Russian government seizure of foreign-built fleets in response to international sanctions over the Ukrainian conflict. Aeroflot Group says AerCap has “ceased” its ...

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    Putin revisits 'quarrel' with former Aeroflot chief over Western fleet

    20 Jul 2023

    Russian president Vladimir Putin has pointedly remarked to transport minister Vitaly Saveliev that the country’s aerospace industry is unable to meet the immediate demand for aircraft, recalling his dissatisfaction over the former Aeroflot chief’s reliance on a Western fleet. Putin spoke to Saveliev, seeking an update on the air transport ...

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    Aeroflot Superjet captain imprisoned over fatal Moscow landing accident

    30 Jun 2023

    Russian authorities have sentenced the captain of an Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 to six years in an open penitentiary over the fatal landing accident at Moscow Sheremetyevo four years ago. The aircraft departed Moscow for Murmansk on 5 May 2019, and had just been cleared to climb to 11,000ft when ...

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    United Aircraft seals supply contracts covering over 60 jets for Aeroflot

    17 Feb 2023

    United Aircraft has signed formal contracts to deliver 63 aircraft to Russian operator Aeroflot Group by the end of 2025. Aeroflot Group is to take 18 Irkut MC-21s plus 34 SSJ-New aircraft, as well as 11 Tupolev Tu-214s. United Aircraft has also reached agreement to supply eight SSJ-New twinjets to ...