Russian & CIS Commercial Aviation Insights

Uzbekistan’s national airline launches low fare travel on all-economy Airbus A320s

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lends US$50 million to Air Astana

S7 Technics to showcase its engineering support services, a big development in engine services and redelivery checks capabilities

Aeroflot group’s carrier is on track to becoming the country’s largest airline by fleet size in two years

Component service agreement covers multiple fleet types, including Superjet 100

The largest MRO dedicated event in the region covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia to be held in-person on September 15-16 in Moscow

A-Technics performs heavy checks on Russian flag carrier’s four Triple Sevens

Russia’s private airline set up MRO support at St.Petersburg

In July this year Russian airlines’ combined traffic reached 12.5 million passengers, just 12 per cent down on the same month of the pre-COVID 2019, according to the recent report by the country’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya. The Russian air travel market clearly continues on track of a steady recovery, reaching 88 per cent of the pre-crisis levels past month, up from 86.6 per cent in June, 81.3 per cent in May and 77 per cent in April. The total RPKs reached 23.1 billion, still 33.74 per cent below the ‘normal’ levels, due to severe international travel restrictions. For the first time since the onset of the crisis, Russia’s largest airlines of the TOP-5 elite have all passed the psychologically sensitive milestone of 1 million monthly passengers. These airlines are accountable for nearly 65 per cent of the total traffic. In July, Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot served 2.5 million passengers – for the first time, less than 50 per cent below its ‘norm’. It is gradually stretching the lead from its closest competitor, privately-owned S7 Airlines, which carried 1.7 million passengers past month. Boasting an unbelievable 50 per cent growth compared to July 2019 results, Aeroflot’s low-cost division Pobeda served 1.5 [...]

The region’s largest MRO event will take place in person on 15-16 September 2021 in Moscow

Russia’s largest privately-owned aviation holding to launch stand alone carrier operating A320neos

Kyrgyzstan’s Air Manas has selected maintenance-by-the-hour services for its A220 fleet

An AL172 will be used for private pilots training

With the rising vaccination rate, vacations time demand for domestic flights has roared back

Azimuth Airlines will become a new Airbus operator in Russia next year

The new contract governs supply for the Russian airline's fleet of Airbus A320neo

Russian airlines combined traffic resulted 13.5 per cent below same month of 2019

Domestic passengers grew 31 per cent over 2019

In five months of 2021 Russian airlines served almost 33 million passengers, 26.6 per cent less compared to pre-crisis 2019

Aeroflot embarks on a transformation effort to upgrade its premium offering