Experts and officials in Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya are deciding whether to temporarily ground Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) aircraft after a preliminary analysis of the circumstances surrounding the accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, which claimed 41 lives, Kommersant reported citing sources.
According to the newspaper’s report, if relevant...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has offered condolences to families of victims of a fire in an Aeroflot passenger airplane and ordered an investigation into the deadly incident which killed 41 people, TASS news agency reports.
Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that the President “extends his deep...
Moscow’s biggest airport, Sheremetyevo (SVO) and Moscow Cargo presented their “2030 Master Plan” last week for the expansion of the airport’s cargo complex to an audience including Chinese airline executives and members of a Chinese international trade committee, Cargo Airport News reported.
The Russian airport aims to capture growing Chinese...
Russian airline iFly Airlines has received a license last week from the Russian Federation for flights from Sochi to Zagreb, Belgrade, and Sarajevo, HRTurizam reported on Monday.
The company has applied for four weeks of flights from the Olympic and summer Black Sea resort to the capital cities of...
Russia’s state-run United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is planning the creation of a civil aviation division by merging the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), the UAC-Integration Center and New Civil Technologies with the Irkut Corporation.
According to AviaPort.ru, UAC’s board of directors decided to increase efficiency and attractiveness for investors by...
Dubai-based airline Flydubai has announced on Tuesday the start of flights to Sochi, Russia starting from 07 June 2019, Gulf Business News reports.
Flights between Dubai and Sochi will operate twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, the company said. Flydubai will be the first carrier to offer direct flights...
Syrian authorities are making persistent efforts to attract guests from Russia, with religious tourism viewed as a major area, the country’s tourism minister Rami Radwan Martini told reporters on Friday, according to RIA news agency.
"Work is in progress to attract tourists from Russia. The first area is religious tourism....
Russian airline Pegas Fly has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-900 airplane, increasing the number of aircraft in its fleet with a capacity of more than 200 seats, Ato.ru reported.
The company, which is controlled by Turkish tour company Pegas Touristik, is gearing up to operate several 737-900s, the...
The Sheremetyevo International Airport introduced a system of using electronic boarding passes on domestic flights, the airport press service said, TASS reports.
“On April 4, the Sheremetyevo International Airport, within the framework of the strategy of automation and introduction of electronic services, started serving passengers with electronic boarding passes on...
At least 20 new services between Russia and France with several new routes are being launched at the start of the IATA summer season, leading to expectations of a marked increase in the number of passengers, Rusaviainsider.com reported.
Last year, Russia and France signed an air service agreement to...
