Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Starovoytov sent a letter to Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika requiring to give a legal assessment of Tatiana Anodina competence in the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC). Starovoytov asked the prosecutor's office to find out whether the head of IAC, Anodina, was not forging protectionism for Transaero, which belonged to her son Alexander Pleshakov...
Russian low cost airline Pobeda (part of the Aeroflot Group) started ticket sales for international flights, according to the carrier's website. Bratislava and Vienna became Pobeda’s first international destinations. The Russian Transport Ministry approved the airline’s provisional admission for 7 international routes from Moscow to Bratislava, Dresden, Cologne, Bergam...
Consortium of European companies, which includes 64 enterprises, has completed a research project for development of a “smart” (or “morphing”) wing, which is able to adjust its aerodynamic configuration and generate reports about its technical condition, Interfax reports with reference to Aviation Week. It took €51 million and four years to implement the projec...
International Launch Services (ILS), a subsidiary of the Russian Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, has signed a contract with the international satellite communications organisation Intelsat on five launches of the Proton-M carrier rockets until 2023 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Khrunichev Centre’s press service reported on Wednesday. "International Launch Servi...
Russian Helicopters expect to keep the portfolio of orders at the current level in two coming years and to sell 230-280 helicopters a year, deputy CEO of the company Alexander Scherbinin told TASS on Thursday. Current production and sales of Russian Helicopters are aligned with the global market situation and production capacity of the company, Scherbinin added. "It [the capacity] is ab...
Russia's ban on flights to Egypt will last at least several months, President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff has said. Sergei Ivanov was quoted in Russian media as saying it would be impossible to dramatically change the policy in a short time. He said the restrictions would last "for several months, as a minimum," according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Russia suspen...
Turkish Airlines has become the biggest foreign carrier serving Russia as competitors including former market leader Deutsche Lufthansa AG drop flights amid a slump in demand. The Turkish operator has increased Russian flights by more than 16 percent in 2015 as international rivals cut services as much as 43 percent, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysis of airline data. In Septembe...
Airbus A319-111 made an emergency landing in the airport in Khabarovsk, no victims reported, Far East Transport Investigative Department told TASS. "The preliminary information is the plane had to make emergency landing because of cracks of the cockpit glass," the authority's representative Oksana Polshakova said. "The plane had to return to the airport because of cracked...
The company's employees will be given an opportunity to be employed by Aeroflot and other Russian aviation enterprises and organizations without loss of length of service The staff of Transaero airline must be informed within the shortest possible time that they need to leave the company, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency said in a statement following a meeting on employment of Tr...
The plane landed at the ice airfield of Russia’s Novolazarevskaya station in Antarctica The Ilyushin Il-76TD-90VD plane has for the first time landed on the ice airfield of Russia’s Novolazarevskaya station in Antarctica, the press service of the JSC Ilyushin Aviation Complex (part of the United Aircraft Corporation - UAC) reported on Monday. "The Il-76 type plane, equipped...
Russia may suspend passenger flights to “potentially dangerous regions” amid security concerns following the fatal Saturday crash of a Russian jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a Russian newspaper wrote on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin suspended all flights from Russia to Egypt on Friday following the crash of a Russian passenger jet over Egypt&...
On November 8-12, Russia is presenting its aircraft and air defense systems at the Dubai Airshow in the UAE. “Su-35 presentation here [at the airshow] is very good, and we are currently engaged in negotiations with the [United Arab] Emirates about the delivery of these aircraft,” Chemezov told journalists. Earlier in the day, head of Rostec...
