All Aeroflot articles

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    Aeroflot switching completely to domestic software next year: chief

    2024-10-10T07:31:00Z

    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

    2024-10-07T16:54:00Z

    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

    2024-09-05T07:26:00Z

    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

    2024-08-29T10:12:00Z

    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

    2024-08-06T05:45:00Z

    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

    2024-05-03T08:00:00Z

    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

    2024-05-01T07:25:00Z

    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

    2024-02-16T18:56:00Z

    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

    2024-01-03T10:16:00Z

    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

    2023-11-09T22:03:00Z

    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

    2023-10-12T09:36:00Z

    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

    2023-10-03T21:39:00Z

    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

    2023-09-06T07:09:00Z

    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

    2023-07-20T12:31:00Z

    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

    2023-06-30T08:03:00Z

    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

    2023-02-17T07:15:00Z

    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 ...

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    Air India A350 order will include early deliveries of former Aeroflot -900s

    2023-02-14T15:26:00Z

    Air India is to take six Airbus A350-900s which were originally allocated to Aeroflot, before sanctions prevented further deliveries to the Russian flag-carrier. The -900s will be delivered towards the end of this year, part of an agreement for 40 A350s unveiled by the Indian operator. Aeroflot had 16 A350-900s ...

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    How far through recovery are European airlines?

    2022-12-28T10:51:00Z

    A carrier-by-carrier guide to the progress European airlines continued to make in their recovery from the Covid-19 crisis during the past year and a look at how much further they have to go in 2023.

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    Prototype MC-21s to carry Rossiya livery during training programme

    2022-11-24T21:42:00Z

    Irkut has painted an MC-21 twinjet in the colour scheme of Aeroflot Group carrier Rossiya, the first airline set to receive the type. The aircraft was painted at a facility in Ulyanovsk. Rossiya was designated as the main operator of Russian-built aircraft under a re-organisation by Aeroflot Group prior to ...

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    Why order for Russian jets will turn Aeroflot into a replica of its former self

    2022-09-15T15:44:00Z

    No longer able to access Western aircraft or technology, Russia’s flag carrier and its aerospace industry are being forced to turn inwards and do business together in a throwback to Soviet times.