Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000. She has previously worked for Russky Telegraf 1997-1998, Russia Journal 1999-2000, the Vremya Novostei newspaper 2000-2001, the Russky Focus business weekly 2001-2004 and the Kompania business weekly in 2004-2005.
Starting as a journalist for Air Transport Observer Magazine in 2005, she had become deputy editor by the time she left in 2014, moving to Germany.
She has also written and edited a number of surveys and editorial on airline, aircraft and travel issues for a number of Russian and international publications.
She lives with her husband, twins, and a dog and cat in Cyprus.
Russian and Finland aviation authorities have agreed to increase flight frequencies from 14X- to 21-X per week for designated carriers on Saint Petersburg-Helsinki services.
Moscow-based cargo carrier Atran Airlines, which is part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has received approval for 7X-weekly Moscow-Frankfurt service, according to a statement by Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency.
Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA) has completed repairs on all 11 Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) that were grounded by Mexican airline Interjet, the only SSJ100 operator in the Americas.
