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Condor welcomes its second Airbus A321, named “Voyager Android”

Condor Flugdienst (Frankfurt) welcomed its second new Airbus A321-211 (D-AIAB, msn 5603) at Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld yesterday where it will be based. The new airliner was baptized by Miss Berlin and Miss Germany 2010, Anne Julia Hagen, as “Voyager Android” (below). The pictured D-AIAB (top) was handed over to Condor on May 30.

Bottom Copyright Photo: Andi Hiltl/AirlinersGallery.com. The first Condor A321 is the pictured A321-211, registered as D-AIAA (msn 1607), seen arriving at Antalya. D-AIAA joined the fleet on April 30.

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Sunday Airlines (SCAT Air Company) Boeing 757-204 LY-FLG (msn 27237) AYT (Rainer Bexten). Image: 912366.

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Transaero Airlines’ 2012 net profit drops by 51% to $28.7 million

Transaero Airlines (Moscow) has issued the following short statement concerning its financial performance during 2012.

Transaero Airlines has published its financial results under RAS for 2012 which demonstrate the Company’s growth.

• Revenue from all activities in 2012 reached RUB 97.6bln, 13% more than in 2011
• Traffic revenue from in 2012 made up RUB 90.3bln, a 35% increase on 2011
• Revenue from asset transactions decreased by 64% and reached RUB 6.8 bln
• The Company’s revenue grew faster than prime costs and expenses.
• Transaero’s sales revenue increased 2.9 times over 2011, to RUB 7 bln

Net profit reached RUB 902 million ($28.7 million), a 51% decrease over 2011. The Company’s profit was mainly ensured by revenues from the main carrier’s activities. Transaero has achieved these results amid a significant growth of air fuel price, social payment and taxes.

In other news, the Russian airline added twice-weekly Boeing 737-500 service from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad on May 12 in competition against Rossiya Airlines per Anna Aero.

Kaliningrad is a seaport city and the administrative capital of the Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave located between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. This enclave is geographically separated from the rest of Russia.

Copyright Photo: Andi Hiltl/AirlinersGallery.com. Boeing 747-446 EI-XLD (msn 26360) approaches the Turkish resort destination of Antalya.

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Aeroflot to combine Vladivostok Air and SAT Airlines under a new company called Far Eastern Airline (DVA)

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) has transferred its controlling 52.156 percent of the shares of Vladivostok Air (Vladivostok Avia) (Vladivostok) (a member of the Aeroflot Group of companies) to SAT Airlines (Sakhalin Airlines) (Sakhalin) (a 100 percent subsidiary of Aeroflot). This move was made following the decision of Aeroflot’s Board of Directors concerning the creation of Far Eastern Airline (DVA) within the Aeroflot Group.

According to Aeroflot, “the new member in Aeroflot Group of companies will satisfy the growing demand for regional flights offering the highest service standards in one of the most impressively developing regions of the country — Russia’s Far East.”

Aeroflot continues, “the creation of Far Eastern Airline (DVA) will contribute significantly to the social-economic development of this vast region with a powerful economic potential and will let Aeroflot Group become one of the leading air carriers in Asia-Pacific.

The establishment of Far Eastern Airline (DVA) is one of the key elements of Aeroflot Group strategy aimed at the creation of a large aviation holding which will successfully compete with the leaders of the global civil aviation.”

Vladivostok Air is the largest air carrier in Russia’s Far East, carrying about 1,100,000 passengers annually on its own fleet of planes. The airline flies to 24 domestic and 13 international destinations.

Aeroflot recently celebrated its 90th anniversary of its creation as a state airline. Aeroflot is one of the world’s oldest airlines, founded on March 17, 1923 as Dobrolet. Operations commenced on July 15, 1923 from Moscow to Nizhniy Novgorod. The company adopted its current name Aeroflot on March 25, 1932.

Read the full report from Pravda: CLICK HERE

Top Copyright Photo: Andi Hiltl. Vladivostok Air’ Airbus A330-301 VQ-BEU (msn 055) arrives at Antalya.

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Bottom Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing. SAT Airlines’ (Sakhalin Airlines) Boeing 737-232 RA-73005 (msn 23100) completes its final approach at Beijing.

Red Wings Airlines is grounded by the Russian authorities

Red Wings Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo) had its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) suspended by the Russian authorities today (February 4) due to an audit of the airline by the Russian authorities. The airline came under stronger scrutiny after the recent December 29 crash in Moscow as previously reported. The airline issued this statement (translated from Russian):

On February 4, 2013 the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia (Rosaviatsia) suspended the Air Operators Certificate (AOC) of our airline. The decision was made based on the inspection of the airline from 10 to January 10-16, 2013. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, published on their official website, they have been found “numerous significant violations in the organization of flight operations, aircraft maintenance, pilot training and other shortcomings in the airline with systemic problems.” The December 29, 2012 crash is not the cause of the suspension of our airline. The Commission concluded that Red Wings continues to meet certification requirements. On December 28, 2012 Rostransnadzor completed an audit of our company. The audit identified 18 comments, 2 of them removed during the test. At the moment, the audit removed another 10 comments, of which 6 are being addressed. None of the comments did not prevent the further work of the company. It should also be noted that the airline has not yet received an official certificate from the Federal Air Transport Agency of the unscheduled inspection on the basis of which the decision was taken to suspend the AOC. Once the document is received, the company intends to respond promptly to all complaints of the aviation authority to resume flight operations.

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SunExpress to expand operation at Izmir next summer

SunExpress Airlines (Antalya) will add four new destinations from Izmir this coming summer. Bremen (April 3), Hahn (July 4), Oslo (May 2) and Stockholm (April 28) will be added bringing to 35 the number of destinations from IZmir.

Read the full report from turizmdebusabah (in Turkish): CLICK HERE

Copyright Photo: Paul Denton. Celebrating 20 Years of operations with this special livery, Boeing 737-85F TC-SUM (msn 28826) arrives at Antalya, Turkey.

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Aeroflot to offer Wi-Fi service on 26 long-haul aircraft this year

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) is introducing Wi-Fi Internet access on board of its long-haul aircraft for 2013, this service will be available on 26 long-haul airplanes by the end of the year.

22 Airbus 330 and 4 Boeing 777 airliners will be connected to Internet through satellite-based onboard Wi-Fi. 12 Airbus A330 and three Boeing 777 will be available in the first quarter.

Aeroflot is developing its inflight connectivity program in partnership with OnAir — the global inflight connectivity services provider, using Inmarsat’s satellite networks. OnAir Company was incorporated in 2005 and is owned by SITA, the global IT solutions provider to the air transport world and Airbus aircraft manufacturer.

This Wi-Fi Internet access system has been successfully tested in the sky and is already available on five Airbus A330 aircraft:

1. VQ-BPI “L.Yashin”

2. VQ-BPK “I.Kulibin”

3. VP-BDD “A.Mojaiskiy”

4. VP-BDE “L.Kantorovich”

5. VQ-BPJ “V.Brumel”

Aeroflot names its aircraft after famous Russians.

Aeroflot was the first Russian company to provide its passengers with on board mobile connection and Internet access.

The “On Board Internet” program has being implemented by Aeroflot since 2010.

Copyright Photo: Ton Jochems. Airbus A330-343X VQ-BEK (msn 1077) taxies at the popular Russian holiday destination of Antalya, Turkey.

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Donbassaero Airlines files for bankruptcy protection and ceases operations

Donbassaero Airlines (Donetsk) filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations on January 14, 2013.

Donbassaero Airlines was established in 1933 as Donetsk Aviation Enterprise.

Donbassaero is part of the Ukrainian Aviation Group that also includes Dniproavia and AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines. All three carriers have either ceased operations or curtailed most of their operations.

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Red Wings Airlines’ Tupolev Tu-204 RA-64047 crashes today at Moscow, four dead

Red Wings Airlines‘ (Moscow-Vnukovo) Tupolev Tu-204-100B RA-64047 (msn 1450743164047) crashed today (December 29) while landing at its home base of Vnukovo on a non-revenue flight. RA-64047 was being operated as ferry flight RWZ 9268. The jetliner ran off the end of the runway on landing, crashed into the side of the adjacent roadway (see video below), broke up and caught on fire killing at least four people of the eight on board according to this report by Global News.

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Petra Airlines to become a low-fare scheduled airline in March 2013

Petra Airlines (Amman) is planning to convert from a charter airline to a low-fare scheduled airline in 2013. The airline has issued and updated this statement:

Petra Airlines of Jordan has obtained its AOC from Jordan CAA to operate as a schedule operator with an aim to be the first Low-Cost Carrier in Jordan. The company operated the last two years a charter flights and has fulfilled all the technical and economic requirements to be a schedule operator.

Mr. Riad Khashman (CEO) has announced Petra Airlines has completed the first phase of operation successfully and hope to expand for the next phase as the first LCC in Jordan. We have gained experience and positioned our brand in the regional market while gaining the consumers and Stakeholders confidence. The company currently owns and operates two Airbus A320s. The third A320 will join the fleet in early 2013 and the first Schedule flight will launch in March 2013. We have plans to operate five A320s by 2014 and have a schedule flight to most of the major Cities in the MENA and GCC Region using Queen Ali Int’l Airport- Amman as a hub.

Petra Airlines also announced a plan to increase its register Capital to reach $70 million. Also in talks to contract one of the Int’l Aviation consultants to develop a comprehensive business plan and ultimately attracting a potential strategic partner in the LCC sphere, Mainly European low-Cost Carriers, to benefit from having a platform in the region. This would allow Petra Airlines to provide services to Europe, MENA and GCC under Jordan open sky policy.

The Jordanian Civil Aviation Authority approved its application to switch its activities from the charter to scheduled market. Petra Airlines was founded in 2005 as a division of the Rum Group, but did not launch operations until October 2010 when it took delivery of its first aircraft (the first charter flight was operated on December 1, 2010). Over the subsequent two years it has operated two Airbus A320s on charter work – ad hoc flying, ACMIs and tour operator packages – across a network that has included destinations in Armenia, Egypt, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

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