Polina Montag-Girmes

Journalist

Cyprus

Summary

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.

Articles

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia and Singapore have liberalized their bilateral agreement, removing restrictions on the number of carriers, flights and aircraft types. Russia’s carriers can now operate regular flights from any point in Russia to Singapore. Airlines from Singapore can operate flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and five other yet-to-be-determined destinations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s RusLine regional carrier will acquire seven Bombardier CRJ200s from an unnamed US finance company.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russian tycoon Oleg Tinkov hopes to launch a new low-cost carrier (LCC), Tinkoff Airlines, according to his social network posts.
Airlines & Lessors