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’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) granted approval for ATR 42/72 aircraft to operate at Russian airports with non-tarmac runways. Of the 332 airports and airdromes in Russia, 38% have non-tarmac runways. UTair (UT) has 14 ATR 42s and its subsidiary, UTair-Ukraine (QU), has three ATR 72-200s and 14 -500s. NordStar (Y7) has five ATR 42s. According to UT`s website, it has 14 ATR 42s, three ATR 72-200s and 14 -500s, but only ATR 42s fleet fly both at UT and UT-Ukraine, UT-Ukraine doesn`t operate with 72s.
SuperJet International’s (SJI) training center in Venice has received Italian Civil Aviation Authority certification to provide Airbus A320 family aircraft training on a full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was transferred in November from the Alitalia training center in Rome to the SJI training center. SJI is a joint venture between Finmeccanica company Alenia Aermacchi and Sukhoi Holding. The A320 FFS allows SJI to extend services beyond Sukhoi Superjet 100 training provided on an SSJ100 FFS at the SJI training center in Zhukovsky, Moscow.
