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.
Russia and China have signed a framework agreement establishing a new joint venture (JV) leasing company, which will order up to 100 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft worth $3 billion over the next three years for carriers in China and Southeast Asia.
Aeroflot low-cost subsidiary (LCC) Pobeda Airline—which began operations in December 2014—has made the top 10 list of Russia’s biggest airlines, according to passengers carried, for the first quarter.
First-quarter losses by Russian airlines have increased RUB1 billion ($19.4 million), according to the Russian Association of Air Transport Operators (AEVT), which estimated 2014 full-year losses to be RUB30 billion due to currency rates and passenger traffic decreases.
