The European Commission has included 20 Russian airlines in the EU Air Safety List. The list includes the largest Russian airlines, such as Aeroflot, Rossiya, Pobeda, UTair, S7. These companies are prohibited from flying within the EU borders, “because they do not comply with international safety standards.” The blacklisting of companies “reflects serious security concerns
The pilot of the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft landed the plane after it was hit by a rocket of a portable anti-aircraft missile system in Ukraine. This was announced on March 14 by the Russian Defence Ministry. As specified in the department, while performing a combat mission in Donbass, a rocket hit the Su-25, which
The aircraft of the military transport aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered 1,422 Russian citizens from the Republic of Kazakhstan to Moscow and 14 Russian citizens to Yekaterinburg. As reported, Russian citizens delivered to Russia by military transport aircraft arrived in Alma-Ata on New Year’s holidays on tourist trips, on vacation to relatives and
Russia sent its Il-114LL reconnaissance aircraft to shadow a US Air Force Boeing P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane over the Black Sea near Crimea, as stated in the Russian Telegram channel Voennyi Obozrevatel. It is reported that the Russian Il-114LL, also known as “the flying laboratory”, “is conducting counter-surveillance” of the P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft, which
Fueled with a mixture of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) based on organic compounds and classic jet fuel, the new A320neo took off from the Airbus factory in Toulouse (France) on Wednesday, December 22, and landed at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. As specified, the flight was a transfer, without passengers on board. The share of biofuels
Roman Abramovich’s new plane will become the most expensive Russian private jet to date. The estimated cost of the new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner business jet is $350 million. On December 18, it already flew from Switzerland to Vnukovo Airport, where private aviation is serviced. The main owner of the Millhouse investment company, Roman Abramovich, acquired
The youngest pilot in the world, 19-year-old Zara Rutherford, reached Khabarovsk as part of a round-the-world trip and since November 9, due to cyclones, she has been stuck in the village of Ayan in the Khabarovsk Territory of Russia, as reported in the Telegram channel of the Governor Mikhail Degtyarev. As reported, stormy weather with
Passenger traffic of Russian airlines in October this year increased by 62 per cent compared to the same period last year, which follows from data provided by the press service of the ‘Rosaviation’ Federal Air Transport Agency. The volume of air traffic in October 2021 reached the level of October 2019 and amounted to 11
Moscow will definitely react if the EU imposes sanctions against ‘Aeroflot’ Russian Airlines because of the refugee situation in Belarus. This was promised on Thursday, November 11, by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko. “Of course, there will be a reaction. But we are not surprised at anything at all, because the impression is that
Russia will lift restrictions on air traffic with Austria, Switzerland, Finland and the UAE from November 9, 2021, taking into account the epidemic situation in these countries, according to the press service of the Operational Headquarters for the Fight Against Coronavirus Infection. In addition, Russia is resuming flights with nine other countries, including the Bahamas,
The Russian Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, has revealed that the country is working on a new version of a ‘doomsday plane’, confirming the rumours of the replacements for the four Soviet-made Il-80 flying command posts, RT reports. “Work in this direction is underway,” Manturov said ‘Interfax’ news agency on Sunday, August
Voronezh specialists have begun to create a command and control aircraft in the event of a nuclear war, RIA Novosti reports with reference to its source in the country’s Military Industrial Complex. It is expected that the Russian Aerospace Forces will receive two air command posts based on the Il-96-400M aircraft. One of them is
Today, on July 26, Aurora Airlines launched new socially significant flights in the Far East, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the company. The flights are operated by DHC-8 Q400 aircraft. The aircraft has already performed a flight on the route Khabarovsk – Shakhtersk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Such a flight will
