Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Japan Airlines began operating regular flights on 23 April on the Tokyo - Moscow - Tokyo route from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Haneda Airport, reviving a historic route opened in 1967. An official event was held at Sheremetyevo to commemorate this significant event with the participation of the Ambassador Extraordinary...
A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat booster, carrying 36 OneWeb communication satellites, has been launched from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport, TASS reported. Nine minutes later the Fregat booster and communication satellites have separated from the third stage of the rocket. The launch was broadcast live on the Russian space agency...
More than 4.3 million passengers passed through Sheremetyevo International Airport in the first quarter of 2021, with the total for March reaching 1.674 million - making the airport the third-busiest hub in Europe for the quarter. A total of 39,746 takeoff and landing operations were performed in the first quarter...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed that the competent authorities will hammer out the practical issues for restarting flights from Russia to Egyptian resorts, the Kremlin’s press service reported on Friday, Tass informed. "It was agreed on that the appropriate services will hammer out...
Russia has extended suspension of flights to the UK until June 1, according to a telegram of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency sent to carriers. Earlier imposed flight restrictions were in place until April 16, TASS reported. "In accordance with the decision of the emergency response center to prevent the...
Russia restricts air service with Turkey and suspends flights to Tanzania from Thursday, April 15 to June 1 in line with the decision of the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center, TASS reports. Thus, all cargo, passenger and chartered flights and nearly all regular flights between Russia and Turkey will be suspended,...
Aeroflot has put into operation a new 15,000-square-meter hangar, where all types of Western- and Russian-built aircraft will be serviced. The hangar is located in the Northern Terminal Complex of Sheremetyevo International Airport. The hangar comprises three scheduled and unscheduled maintenance workshops, two cabin interior maintenance workshops, aircraft and component...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has unveiled an exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the first manned flight into space. ‘Our Gagarin’ is supported by Moscow’s Museum of Cosmonautics and the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, The Moodie Davitt Report writes. The Terminal D exhibition centres on Yuri Gagarin, a...
Russia imposes restrictions on regular and chartered air service with Turkey for a period from April 15 to June 1 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus infection, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Monday, TASS reports. "We have taken a decision to restrict regular and chartered...
Russia has called for talks to create a legally binding international instrument that would ban the deployment of any type of weapons in space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight, Sputnik reports. The anniversary of the first Soviet cosmonaut's flight,...