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Transaero to start scheduled Moscow-Taipei service on July 2

Transaero Airlines (Moscow) will start scheduled nonstop flights between Moscow and Taipei on July 2, 2014.

The UN 505/506 weekly flight will be operated from Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, onboard Boeing 767-300 aircraft according to the following schedule (all times local):

Departure from Moscow depart on Wednesdays at 15.00, arrival in Taipei is at 06.50 the next day. Departure from Taipei depart on Thursdays at 09.40, arrival in Moscow is at 17.30.

Transaero Airlines flew its maiden charter flight from Moscow to Taipei in 2002.

Transaero is the only carrier to fly nonstop flights on the Moscow-Taipei route.

Transaero Airlines launched its flights in 1991. Transaero is the Russia’s second largest carrier. In 2013 the airline carried 12.5 million passengers. It ranks among the top 30 airlines in the world in terms of passenger turnover.

Currently, Transaero operates the fleet of 99 aircraft including 20 Boeing 747, 14 Boeing 777, 16 Boeing 767, 44 Boeing 737, three Тu-214, two Тu-204-100С. The airline is the largest operator of widebody aircraft fleet in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe. Transaero is the launch customer in Russia of the most modern aircraft such as Аirbus А380, Boeing 747-8I and Аirbus А320 neo.

The network of the airline includes more than 200 routes in Russia, Europe, Asia, Americas and Africa.

Copyright Photo: Richard Vandervord/AirlinersGallery.com. A dramatic takeoff view of Transaero’s Boeing 767-3Q8 ER EI-DBF (msn 24745) at Phuket, Thailand.

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Dobrolet is experiencing heavy ticket sales before it launches operations on June 11

Dobrolet (2nd) (Moscow-Sheremetyevo) is the new low-fare subsidiary of Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow-Sheremetyevo). The new airline will launch operations on June 11.

Aeroflot issued this statement about ticket sales for the new subsidiary:

More than a half of all tickets offered by low-budget airline Dobrolet for June were booked during the first day of sales. The sale was opened on May 26 at 23:17 Moscow time, and within the first 24 hours 13,700 tickets were booked on the initial Moscow-Simferopol-Moscow route.

From June 11 to June 22, the load factor on flights from Moscow to Simferopol is 99.9%, from June 27 to 30 100% of seats are booked.

Simferopol is in the newly annexed Crimea (see route map below).

The new airline was issued its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) on May 19.

The carrier will commence scheduled operations with two Boeing 737-800 Next-Generation aircraft. The airline will also operate one Sukhoi Super Jet 100 (SSJ100) according to a press release in Russian.

Dobrolet expects to have with Boeing 737-800s in service by the end of 2014 increasing to 40 by 2018.

Aeroflot owns 100 percent of the shares and projects it will invest $100 million in the new company in the first two years.

Image: Dobrolet/Aeroflot.

Route Map: The first route and prospective cities.

Aeroflot to restore Moscow-Chisinau, Moldova service after 20 years

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) will restore the Moscow (Sheremetyevo)-Chisinau, Moldova route on October 27 with daily Airbus A320 service according to Airline Route. The last Moscow (Vnukovo) – Chisinau/Kishinev service was operated in April 1994 according to the OAG. Moldova is one of the western border countries next to the Ukraine currently in the news.

Copyright Photo: Wingnut/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 VP-BQV (msn 2920) taxies at London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR).

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Israir Airlines to introduce four new routes

Israir Airlines (Tel Aviv) will commenced weekly Airbus A320 service to Stuttgart, Germany starting on June 4 according to Airline Route.

The company is also introducing three new routes this summer to Memmingen (May 30), Tbilisi (April 2) and Verona (April 3).

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Aeroflot retires the Ilyushin Il-96 from scheduled operations

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) according to Airline Route, planned to operate the last scheduled Ilyushin Il-96 flight yesterday (March 30) between Tashkent and its Moscow Sheremetyevo hub. The type was introduced in 1993.

Copyright Photo: Arnd Wolf/AirlinersGallery.com. Ilyushin Il-96-300 RA-96015 (msn 74393202012) taxies at Salzburg, Austria.

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Air Armenia is coming to Paris and Athens

Air Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia) on April 30 will launch twice-weekly Airbus A320 service to Paris (CDG). The Armenian carrier will also start twice-weekly flights to Athens on the same day per Airline Route.

Copyright Photo: OSDU/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 EK32039 (msn 1439) approaches the runway at Moscow (Vnukovo).

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Aeroflot reports record operating results for 2013

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) has announced record operating results in the modern history of the company and Aeroflot Group for the twelve months ending on December 31, 2013. The airline issued this report:

Key drivers of the strong operational highlights included: a marked expansion of the route network, fleet enlargement and passenger traffic growth.

Highlights

Aeroflot standalone:

• Passenger traffic for the full year 2013 was a record 20.9 million. This represented 18.4% year-on-year growth, considerably ahead of the overall Russian industry growth rate of 14.2%. December 2013 passenger traffic was 1.6 million, a 17.0% rise over December 2012 (and well ahead of the 9.6% rise of the overall industry).

• Revenue passenger kilometers in 2013 totalled 50.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 19.2% (versus 15.0% for the industry overall). In December revenue passenger kilometers increased 13.3%, versus 10.1% for the industry overall.

• In 2013 the company expanded its fleet, flying eight new Airbus A320s, five new Airbus A321s, three new Boeing 737-800s and four new Boeing 777-300s. Despite the larger fleet driving available seat kilometers 17.8% higher, the passenger load factor was 78.8%, or 0.9 percentage points higher than in 2012.

Aeroflot Group:

• Total passenger traffic in 2013 rose 14.3% year-on-year to 31.4 million. For December, passenger traffic was 2.3 million, a 13.3% increase over the same period a year earlier.

• Revenue passenger kilometers for 2013 increased 14.3% year-on-year to 85.3 bln. In December revenue passenger kilometers increased 6.9% versus the same period a year earlier to 6.3 billion;

• The passenger load factor for 2013 was 0.1 percentage point higher at 78.2%, despite a slight decrease (0.3 percentage points) in December versus the same period a year earlier.

Key factors that impacted the Group’s 2013 operating results:

• Aeroflot standalone continued attract more passengers by delivering a premium product at a competitive price, maintaining a strong safety record and expanding its network of routes.

• Charter subsidiary Orenburg Airlines redirected some of its capacity to European destinations from the Middle East and Asia due to political instability in those regions.

• Russian Far Eastern carrier Aurora Airlines was formed through the combination of Sakhalin Airways (SAT Airlines) and Vladivostok Avia, integrating the route networks and optimizing the fleets of the two formerly separate subsidiaries.

• Aeroflot discontinued its dedicated cargo fleet, switching to belly cargo operations.

The tables below provide key operating results for Aeroflot and Aeroflot Group.

Aeroflot standalone traffic figures

	Dec 2013	Dec 2012	Change	12M 2013	12M 2012	Change
Passengers carried (000s)	1,630.2	1,393.6	17.0%	20,902.4	17,656.1	18.4%
Revenue passenger km (mln)	4,689.4	4,139.4	13.3%	60,226.3	50,532.5	19.2%
Available seat km (mln)	6,390.9	5,623.5	13.6%	76,444.8	64,880.0	17.8%
Passenger load factor	73.4%	73.6%	(0.2pp)	78.8%	77.9%	0.9pp
Cargo + mail carried (tonnes)	14,806.8	16,154.6	(8.3%)	176,456.1	193,948.8	(9.0%)
Total revenue ton-kilometers – pax, luggage, cargo (mln)	489.1	458.4	6.7%	6,339.9	5,669.2	11.8%
Available cargo ton-kilometers (mln)	790.0	744.4	6.1%	9,848.7	8,881.1	10.9%
Revenue load factor	61.9%	61.6%	0.3pp	64.4%	63.8%	0.6pp
Revenue cargo ton-kilometers (mln)	67.1	85.8	(21.8%)	919.5	1,121.3	(18.0%)

Aeroflot Group traffic figures

	December 2013	December 2012	Change	12M 2013	12M 2012	Change
Passengers carried (000s)	2,316.3	2,044.0	13.3%	31,390.7	27,471.7	14.3%
Of which international	1,210.0	1,146.5	5.5%	17,391.4	15,963.3	8.9%
Of which domestic	1,106.3	897.5	23.3%	13,999.3	11,508.4	21.6%
Revenue passenger km (mln)	6,253.1	5,848.1	6.9%	85,273.3	74,617.2	14.3%
Of which international	4,051.7	3,966.1	2.2%	56,112.6	50,279.9	11.6%
Of which domestic	2,201.4	1,882.0	17.0%	29,160.7	24,337.3	19.8%
Available seat km (mln)	8,590.8	8,004.7	7.3%	109,063.8	95,598.1	14.1%
Of which international	5,600.4	5,426.4	3.2%	71,529.8	63,851.3	12.0%
Of which domestic	2,990.4	2,578.3	16.0%	37,534.0	31,746.8	18.2%
Passenger load factor	72.8%	73.1%	(0.3pp)	78.2%	78.1%	0.1pp
Of which international	72.3%	73.1%	(0.8pp)	78.4%	78.7%	(0.3pp)
Of which domestic	73.6%	73.0%	0.6pp	77.7%	76.7%	1.0pp
Cargo + mail carried (tons)	16,977.5	18,958.7	(10.5%)	204,554.1	223,771.7	(8.6%)
Of which international	9,116.7	12,034.9	(24.2%)	121,797.4	153,117.1	(20.5%)
Of which domestic	7,860.8	6,923.8	13.5%	82,756.7	70,654.6	17.1%
Total revenue ton-kilometers – pax, luggage, cargo (mln)	634.1	620.1	2.3%	8,666.1	7,925.7	9.3%
Of which international	406.3	424.5	(4.3%)	5,710.8	5,445.6	4.9%
Of which domestic	227.8	195.6	16.5%	2,955.3	2,480.1	19.2%
Available cargo ton-kilometers (mln)	1,027.8	1,001.8	2.6%	13,388.5	12,152.9	10.2%
Of which international	669.8	690.8	(3.0%)	8,872.6	8,351.7	6.2%
Of which domestic	358.0	311.0	15.1%	4,515.9	3,801.2	18.8%
Revenue load factor	61.7%	61.9%	(0.2pp)	64.7%	65.2%	(0.5pp)
Of which international	60.7%	61.5%	(0.8pp)	64.4%	65.2%	(0.8pp)
Of which domestic	63.6%	62.9%	0.7pp	65.4%	65.2%	0.2pp
Revenue cargo ton-kilometers (mln)	71.3	93.8	(23.9%)	991.5	1,210.0	(18.1%)
Of which international	41.6	67.6	(38.4%)	660.7	920.3	(28.2%)
Of which domestic	29.7	26.2	13.3%	330.8	289.7	14.2%

Copyright Photo: OSDU/AirlinersGallery.com. Celebrating “90 Years in the Sky”, Superjet 100-95B RA-89009 (msn 95017) in a special anniversary livery, arrives at the Moscow (Sheremetyevo) hub.

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Emirates to fly Airbus A380 double-daily service to Moscow starting on August 1

Emirates (Dubai) will serve its Moscow route from Dubai with a double daily Airbus A380 service starting on August 1.

This second A380, which will operate as flight EK 133/134, replaces the existing Boeing 777 operation and increases seat capacity on the route by 15%.

Top Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A380-861 A6-EEL (msn 133) arrives in Los Angeles.

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Bottom Copyright Photo: Emirates.

Transaero Airlines starts offering “Discount Class”

Transaero Airlines (Moscow) following up on our previous report, on January 14, 2014, started to offer a new low-cost product called Discount Class.

Discount class is offered on certain Transaero flights from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport on a number of popular domestic and international routes including those to London, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Rome,Milan, Tel Aviv, Vilnius, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody, Novosibirsk, Novy Urengoy, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Stavropol, Ufa, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kiev, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Astana, Almaty, Karaganda, Yerevan, Antalya.

During the first day of the service launch, the airline carried about 5,000 passengers on 54 Discount Class flights on Boeing 737 and Tu-214 aircraft (above).

All seats on specified flights are sold according to Discount Class rules. The ticket fares include, in accordance with the Russian Federal Aviation Rules, free drinks and food or meals depending on flight length. Passengers are also offered a choice of newspapers and an opportunity to buy duty-free goods onboard. However, Discount Class passengers won’t be able to order special meals. Passengers on these flights can carry 10, 15 or 20 kilos of luggage, depending on tariff of the purchased ticket.

Members of the Transaero Privilege frequent flyer program may earn points travelling in Discount Class at a 50% rate. They can also get reward tickets for these flights.

The new product by Transaero Airlines guarantees a reasonable balance of comfort and affordable ticket prices.

Copyright Photo: Antony J. Best/AirlinersGallery.com. Tupolev Tu-214 RA-64518 (man 42305018) arrives in London (Heathrow).

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Aeroflot celebrates 10 years of flying the Airbus A320 Family of aircraft

Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Moscow) is celebrating 10 years of flying the Airbus A320 Family of aircraft. The airline issued this statement:

Ten years ago Aeroflot received its first aircraft from the Airbus family — an A319 which was named after the eminent Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Prokofiev.

The A320 family airplanes meet all the requirements of security, reliability and passenger comfort. Aeroflot operates A320 aircraft on European and domestic routes. In terms of operational reliability and actual hours flown per aircraft, the company is among the world leaders. Cabins of this aircraft family are made in two-class configuration and designed to carry 116 (A319), 140 and 158 (A320), and 170 (A321) passengers.

Many aircraft of the A320 family which is the backbone of Aeroflot’s park are decorated with unique liveries and logos. You can find A320s with the Dobrolet retro livery, Winter Olympics mascots (see below) and the Yekaterinburg World Expo 2020 Bid Committee logo. A jet from A320 family became the Olympic Torch Relay aircraft and brought the Olympic flame from Greece to Moscow. The Olympic Torch Relay team will travel to the northern regions of the country (from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok) and to the Caucasus on board one of Aeroflot’s A320s.

Today Aeroflot’s fleet counts 140 airplanes, most of them are of A319/320/321 family. All the Airbus aircraft are delivered to Aeroflot directly from the manufacturer. The average age of an A320 family aircraft is 5 years.

Aeroflot’s fleet is one of the youngest in Europe. By the end of 2012, Aeroflot reached the fourth place among European carriers in terms of aircraft deliveries, according to Airline Business rating.

Aeroflot is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2013. Aeroflot is Russia’s flagship airline and the largest national air company. Proudly being a member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance, Aeroflot with its partnering members provides service to more than 1000 destinations in 178 countries. Aeroflot operates one of the most modern and youngest fleets in Europe counting 140 aircraft formed by Airbus, Boeing and Sukhoi airliners with an average airplane age between five and six years old. In 2012 Aeroflot carried 17.7 million passengers (27.5 million passengers as Aeroflot Group), continuously showing the best results in modern Russia’s history.

Top Copyright Photos: Rolf Wallner/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 VP-BWD (msn 2116) taxies past the camera at Zurich.

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Bottom Copyright Photo: OSDU/AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 VP-BMF (msn 3711) in the Sochi 2014 – 2014 Winter Olympics scheme arrives at the Moscow (Sheremetyevo) hub.