An upward trend in tourist flow to Russia has continued until the end of 2018, and has made up 20 percent compared to the previous year, RIA news agency reported citing Maya Lomidze, executive director of the Association of Russian Tour Operators (ATOR).
"We see that positive dynamics remained...
The international air traffic may recover in the middle of summer, official spokesperson of the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot Yulia Spivakova said on Sunday on the air with the Rossiya-24 TV Channel.
"It is difficult to indicate the exact timing of flights so far but when looking at the best-case forecasts,...
Red Wings Airlines, a part of Rostec, is considering the possibility of creating a low-cost airline and intends to use only Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) aircraft for regional low-cost flights, Kommersant reported.
The airline's fleet includes seven SSJ-100 aircraft, and by the end of 2022 the company will receive another...
Russian airlines’ combined traffic in July was 52.8 per cent down from the same month last year, according to a recent preliminary report by the country’s aviation regulator Rosaviatsiya. Combined, Russian carriers served 6.72 million passengers. The RPKs, however, suffered an even steeper decline of 62.5 per cent, to...
The Russian government’s sub-commission on the defense industry, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, has recommended that budget airline Pobeda considers purchasing 30 Russian-made MC-21 planes instead of Boeing 737s, which have been grounded due to security concerns, business newspaper Vedomosti reported.
According to the publication, the low-cost airline...
Russian mobile operator Beeline has launched its multi-media entertainment area in the Sheremetyevo Airport, Telecompaper reported.
Business-class passengers departing from the D terminal of the airport are able to use the services and multi-media devices.
Beeline is a telecommunications brand by PJSC VimpelCom, the third-largest wireless and second-largest telecommunications operator in...
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport is currently doing really well, with 40 million passengers last year (+18%) and continued 13% growth in the first half of 2018. Its Director of Aviation Marketing and Commerce, Vladimir Khizhnyak, spoke with Airport Business on development plans.
“In the U.S.-Russia market, most of the...
The Aeroflot Group has almost fully restored air transportation on the domestic market, CEO of the Russian flag carrier Vitaly Savelyev says on Friday, TASS reported.
"The Aeroflot Group has recovered by almost 100% against August - by 99.6%. Our Pobeda was the key growth driver - the...
Russian flag carrier Aeroflot was named the most punctual mainline airline in 2019 in the annual On-Time Performance (OTP) Review by travel data and analytics firm Cirium, Lenta.ru reports.
The airline had an OTP score of 86.68 percent, while Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) followed in a close second...
Due to the closure of flights to Turkey, the debt of tour operators to Russian tourists, which has been accumulating since 2020 due to the worsening pandemic situation, has increased to 44 billion rubles, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) reported.
According to ATOR, about 1.3 million people...
