Aeroflot Russian Airlines

Flights to Thessaloniki, Prague and Sofia are being resumed alongside an expansion of the airline’s existing codeshare agreement with Aeroflot.

Russia’s Aeroflot Group has finally brought all of its subsidiary airlines to its home base, Moscow Sheremetyevo International, as part of efforts to optimize its network.

Fourteen routes are being launched from the airport, with up to 20 daily departures planned during the peak summer season.

S7 Airlines and Aeroflot are each launching new routes to Morocco among their latest network expansion plans.

Aeroflot Group has confirmed that a planned regional hub in Krasnoyarsk, located in the Siberia region of Russia, will open in June.

Four new routes will be launched from the group's delayed Krasnoyarsk hub.

Rossiya Airlines plans to hire 400 pilots in 2021 and another 200 in 2022 to support the expansion of its fleet with Russian-made regional aircraft.

The Tokyo Haneda-Moscow Sheremetyevo route was supposed to start in March 2020.

Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, significant flight restrictions and the suspension of international flights, Aeroflot Group carried 30.2 million passengers in 2020, down 50.3% year-over-year.

Russian airlines carried 69.2 million passengers in 2020, down 46% year-over-year (YOY), according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.

Twelve routes are scheduled to begin during the summer season, including three international services.

The Aeroflot board of directors has approved the sale of 51% of the airline’s smallest subsidiary, Aurora.

An Irkut MC-21-300 narrowbody powered by Russian PD-14 turbofan engines made its first flight from Irkutsk, Russia, on the morning of Dec. 15.

Russian airline Aeroflot’s net loss for the 2020 third quarter (Q3) narrowed to RUB21.1 billion ($277 million), compared with RUB35.8 billion in the second quarter, helped by demand from its domestic network.

The Russian government on Nov. 18 recommended Mikhail Poluboyarinov, the current CEO of the State Transport Leasing Corp. (STLC), as the new head of Aeroflot Group.

Russia’s Aeroflot airline reports it has raised RUB80 billion ($1.02 billion) for its charter capital through a secondary public offering.

Russia’s government has expanded the number of routes eligible for subsidies as part of efforts to increase domestic traffic.

Russia’s largest airline group Aeroflot is to soon receive a massive cash injection from its major shareholder, the Russian government, through a rights issue.

The board of Russia’s Aeroflot Group is expected to adopt a new strategy on July 16 calling for the parent airline to focus on long-haul operations while the domestic network will be left for the two subsidiaries Pobeda and Rossiya.

Russia’s largest airline operator, Aeroflot Group, has become the first beneficiary of financial aid from the government to help withstand the economic consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Aeroflot LCC subsidiary Pobeda Airlines is suspending all flights from Apr. 1 until May 31, following the Russian government’s recommendation for the country’s resorts to halt operations to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Aeroflot Group has become the first Russian carrier to ease its lease burden amid the COVID-19 flight restrictions that come as airlines are already contending with the weakened ruble.

Russia is to become the latest nation to sever international air links to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Mar. 25 meeting of Russian