S7 Airlines has concluded a settlement with multiple foreign lessors, including AerCap, Air Lease Corp, and SMBC Aviation Capital, involving 45 medium-haul aircraft and...
Aeroflot, Russia's largest airline, announced on Friday that it has purchased eight Airbus A330 aircraft from foreign leasing companies. According to the Russian operator,...
Aeroflot, Russia’s largest airline, has purchased eight Airbus A330s from foreign leasing companies, the carrier said on Friday. It purchased these airliners “as...
The Russian economy is in free fall. The Russian ruble is worth less than a penny. Russian airlines mainly now fly on domestic routes. There is very little growth potential for them as long as Putin continues his savage attack on Ukraine. Aeroflot is now pushing ticket sales to international destinations it can still fly […]
From The Globe and Mail 🔗 link to source story Eric Atkins, Transportation Reporter, The Globe and Mail • March 19, 2022 Dash 8 Number 443 rolled out of the hangar at Bombardier Aerospace’s plant in Toronto and took its…
The US has effectively grounded 100 planes it claims travelled to Russia lately, including a plane operated by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich and may have violated US export rules. The US Department of Commerce released a list of 99 Boeing […]
TASS reported that around 180 leased Russian airliners have been re-registered with a Russian registration: “Around 180 aircraft have been registered in the state register of civil aircraft since the end of February. These include aircraft of Aeroflot, Pobeda, UTair, Rossiya and Izhavia airlines, Head of the Aircraft Airworthiness Department at the Federal Air Transport […]
Russia is apparently planning to block their airlines from returning (stealing?) Western airliners leased to their airlines. This will be a major hit to aircraft leasing companies. From Reuters: “Russia published a draft law on Thursday that could prevent its airlines returning leased aircraft, raising the stakes in a showdown with Western finance over $10 […]
From Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/9a24a4b3-a3fa-4a37-b783-cbe393461473 How Russia’s airline industry was pushed to the brink in a week https://t.co/JKWypxbRsI — Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 6, 2022
Aeroflot, Russia’s flag carrier, has announced that all foreign flights would be halted beginning March 8, with the exception of flights to Belarus, as Moscow confronts a slew of Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. The move came after […]
S7 Airlines becomes the second Russian carrier to cancel all international flights effective today. Like Aeroflot, they are afraid their leased aircraft will be seized overseas and the crews will be stranded.
Aeroflot Russian Airlines is afraid its leased aircraft will be seized overseas. The flag carrier of Russia has announced it will halt all international flights except to Belarus starting on March 8. Read more from the AP: BREAKING: Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship carrier, has announced that it will halt all international flights except to Belarus starting […]
According to the country’s RBC business news, Russia’s Ministry of Transport is considering options for nationalising aircraft that Aeroflot Group presently leases from foreign lessors in order to insulate the flag carrier from the impact of devastating international sanctions. Russian […]
