Ural Airlines

Two years into its full-scale war with Ukraine, Russia’s airlines face increasing constraints in operating Western-made aircraft.

Aviation Week has seen a letter from Russia’s federal air transport agency sent to its territorial branches and air operators stating the cause of the failure.

Ural Airlines plans to return to operation its Airbus A320 which made a safe emergency landing on a wheat field near Novosibirsk, Siberia.

The Airbus A320 was heading from Sochi to Omsk when the green hydraulics system failed during the approach to the destination, the CEO of Ural Airlines says.

The country’s third-largest carrier, Ural Airlines, is ready to formally acquire 19 of the 52 Airbus airliners in its fleet.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

Flights between Abu Dhabi and Moscow Vnukovo will start in December.

Virgin Australia’s new seasonal flights to Launceston, Wizz Air adding connections from Hungary and Romania and Saudia returning to Manchester are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

Russian airlines are adding routes to Egypt’s Red Sea resorts following the ending of a six-year flight ban.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers' networks.

Smartavia plans to re-enter the market later this month.

Aircraft delivery delays mean that Ural Airlines’ flights between Russia’s capital and Montpellier in southern France will not resume during the summer season.

This week: VietJet is launching its first direct service to Australia; Ethiopian Airlines is returning to Athens after 18 years; and Ural Airlines to enter Moscow - London market.

With a temporary ban on passenger flights between Russia and Georgia set to start on 8 July, Routesonline looks at the airlines and routes that will be affected.

In the first part of a new series focusing on the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, often referred to as ‘the Stans’, Routesonline takes a closer look at the aviation market in Tajikistan.

The reciprocal bans have the potential to hit both nations' already struggling economies, reroute flights across a large part of Europe and lead to further economic disentanglement between the neighbouring states. Latest data from the World Bank's shows Ukraine's real GDP was expected to fall by over 7 per cent, making Russia and Ukraine the world's two worst-growing economies.