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.
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport has banned Ukrainian AeroSvit Airlines due a debt dispute with the carrier. The airport warned the airline it would ban its flights if the RUB95 million ($3 million) debt was not paid in full by Dec. 10. AeroSvit reportedly made a partial payment. Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport said the carrier’s total debt—including arrears for fuel and security supply—had reached RUB165.5 million.
Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport has fully opened its $1.4 billion Terminal A. The completed terminal, which can handle 30 million passengers per year, has three jet bridges for the Boeing 747 and one for the Airbus A380. Transaero CEO Olga Pleshakova said the carrier will transfer its 747 flights to New York and Miami to Vnukovo from Moscow Domodedovo Airport.
