Maksim covers aerospace developments in Central Asia for Aviation Week. He has worked for Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine and was in charge of several ATO sister aerospace publications after working for the Moscow-based CAST defense think tank.
Maksim has a degree in international relations from MGIMO University, Moscow.
Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot yesterday unveiled a new low-cost subsidiary, Dobrolet. Named after the first Soviet commercial air transport organization that later served as the foundation for Aeroflot, the new carrier is expected to start operations in the second quarter of 2014. Aeroflot says the new airline initially will serve “the most popular destinations in the European part of Russia,” and that foreign destinations will be added in 2016.
Ukrainian airlines can resume flights to the U.S. now that the FAA has upgraded Ukraine to a Category 1 rating under the International Aviation Safety Assessment program.
Russian state-owned bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) will participate in the Superjet 100 program by taking a stake in Sukhoi, the parent company of the aircraft’s manufacturer Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC).
