It has not been a good year for Superjet. First, it was the news from Mexico, where Interjet is having challenges with the SSJ. Then Adria canceled its Superjet order, after signing for the aircraft only a few months earlier. …
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…
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,…
Continuing our fleet review series, today we look at Aeroflot. The company has gone through various iterations, lie so many others. Its roots go back to 1923. During the Soviet era, this was the world’s largest airline. Offering flights across…
Aeroflot looks it has plans to cherry-pick from the Transaero fleet. Deals with some Russian lessors allow Aeroflot put selected Transaero aircraft back into service. Aeroflot signed an LoI with VEB-Leasing, Transaero’s largest Russian lessor, for nine Boeing 747s and…
The mechanism of the sale of Transaero to Aeroflot is the typical example of the traditional business model implemented by Russian companies controlled by the state in which there are no winners or losers and indefinitely reproduces management errors that…