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Daily Insight: Friday 10 May 2019: The lesson from Aeroflot flight 1492

News Aeroflot flight 1492 from Moscow to Murmansk crashed last week and burst into flames. While it appears the cause of this crash may be a lightning strike that reverted the fly by wire system to direct mode, causing pilot induced oscillations and a hard landing,...

Aeroflot continues to grow

ATW had this story today reporting how Aeroflot is seeing strong traffic growth. As the story illustrates, several of Russia's airlines are experiencing good traffic growth. The collapse of some Russian airlines helped the survivors to improve their traffic volume...

Are aging fleets a problem?

With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people's attention. The industry safety statistics are...

Aeroflot places $5bn order for 50 MC-21s

Aeroflot ordered 50 MC-21s today from IRKUT. Aeroflot will receive the first jet in the first quarter of 2020, with the full delivery to be completed by 2026. Under the terms of the order, Rostec, the leasing subsidiary of Aviacapital-Service, will supply the 50...

Aeroflot continues to grow

Jun 7, 2018 | Aeroflot

ATW had this story today reporting how Aeroflot is seeing strong traffic growth. As the story illustrates, several of...

Are aging fleets a problem?

May 14, 2018 | Aeroflot, Air Canada, Air China, Air France KLM, Airlines, Alaska, Allegiant, American Airlines, American Eagle, ANA, Austrian, Avianca, Azul, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, China Eastern, China Southern, Delta Air Lines, El Al, Emirates, Ethiopian Air, Etihad, Iran Air, Iran Aseman, Japan Airlines, JetBlue, KLM, Latam, Lufthansa, Mahan Air, Qantas, Qatar, SA Airlink, Singapore Airlines, SkyWest, South African, Southwest Airlines, Turkish Air, Ukraine, United Airlines, Utair, WestJet

With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that...

Aeroflot places $5bn order for 50 MC-21s

Feb 1, 2018 | Aeroflot, Aviadvigatel, Irkut, Pratt & Whitney, UAC, UAC MC 21, UEC, United Technologies

Aeroflot ordered 50 MC-21s today from IRKUT. Aeroflot will receive the first jet in the first quarter of 2020, with...

Aeroflot grows fleet via Transaero collapse

Dec 21, 2015 | Aeroflot, Airbus, Boeing, Transaero

Aeroflot looks it has plans to cherry-pick from the Transaero fleet. Deals with some Russian lessors allow Aeroflot...

Transaero, Aeroflot and S7

Oct 21, 2015 | Aeroflot, Oneworld, S7, Skyteam, Star Alliance, Transaero

The mechanism of the sale of Transaero to Aeroflot is the typical example of the traditional business model...

Russians government officials limited to flying Russian airlines

Oct 15, 2015 | Aeroflot, S7, Ural, Utair

According to an amendment to a Presidential Decree, Russian officials and Duma deputies will be limited in airline...

Transaero – The Fallout

Oct 7, 2015 | Aeroflot, Airbus, Boeing, S7, Transaero, Ural, Utair

Russia´s aviation authority, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, announced on October 6 an unplanned inspection...

The Transaero Mess

Oct 2, 2015 | Aeroflot, Airbus, Boeing, Transaero

Russian airline, Transaero, deep in financial difficulties, was supposed to be taken over by Aeroflot. Turns out...

EDITORIAL – There are no winners when economic sanctions are imposed

Mar 21, 2014 | Aeroflot, Aerospace, Airbus, Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO, Airbus A330, Airbus a350, Airbus A350xwb, Airbus A380, Boeing, Boeing 737 MAX, Boeing 737 NG, Boeing 747 8, Boeing 777, Boeing 787, Bombardier, C Series, General Category, Irkut, Q400 Aircraft, Sukhoi Aerospace, Transaero, UAC MC 21, Volga Dnepr

The current political tensions in the Ukraine have resulted in economic sanctions imposed by the US and its western...

SuperJet news

Feb 4, 2014 | Aeroflot, Interjet, Sukhoi Aerospace, Superjet, Tupolev Aerospace, UAC

This week Mexico's Interjet of its fifth SSJ. SuperJet is upbeat: “We are confirming what we promised, implementing...

Aeroflot gets its third SSJ

Nov 2, 2011 | Aeroflot, Aerospace, Sukhoi Aerospace, Superjet

This morning SuperJet proudly announced that "Aeroflot signed the Acceptance Act for the third deliverable Sukhoi...

MS-21 Gains Momentum at MAKS while Superjet Disappoints

Aug 23, 2011 | Aeroflot, Aerospace, Aviacapital-Service, Ilyushin Capital, Irkut, Lessors, Sukhoi Aerospace, Superjet, VEB-Leasing

Irkut’s MS-21 gained 78 orders at the MAKS Moscow Air Show from two leasing companies, Ilyushin Finance, which ordered...