Aeroflot is offering discounts of up to 20 percent on domestic flights to 30 cities for members of the SkyTeam global airline alliance starting next week. Aeroflot is offering discounts of up to 20 percent on domestic flights to 30 cities for members...

Transaero has launched sales for its long-awaited Italian routes with an aggressive undercutting of prices offered by rival Aeroflot. Transaero has launched sales for its long-awaited Italian routes with an aggressive undercutting of prices offered by rival Aeroflot. The airline announced late Tuesday that it would begin flying to Rome from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport on...

Ill-tempered air travelers might want to think twice before throwing a fit at 35,000 feet on Aeroflot. If the airline gets its way, they could be blacklisted. Ill-tempered air travelers might want to think twice before throwing a fit at 35,000 feet on Aeroflot. If the airline gets its way, they could be blacklisted. After a series of air...

... Panteleyev said, but these trips can't alleviate the current problem, as the number of students wanting to enroll already exceeds the number that flight schools can accept. To try to establish a steadier supply of pilots, the country's largest airline, Aeroflot, opened its own flight school in partnership with the Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School in March 2011, the company said on its website. Students first study for a year and a half at the Ulyanovsk school, then for half a year at Aeroflot's...

... reported. "Researchers need to analyze the compliance of the aircraft-crew training procedures before the flight as part of a criminal case investigation, and to determine the technical condition of the plane before it left Russia," he said. Aeroflot, which operates six Superjets, said it would not suspend operation of the plane. "All Superjets undergo daily technical inspections, and flights are going according to schedule," the airline said on Twitter. Yekaterina Solovyova, an...

... "Received confirmation of schedule from airports in Italy)) 27.06 we start flights to Rome)) waiting for everyone)) flying from Vnukovo." The twice-daily Rome flights will be Transaero's first under a new deal between Russia and Italy that broke rival Aeroflot's long-held monopoly on routes between the two countries. The Federal Air Transportation Agency awarded Transaero the right to become the second Russian carrier to operate flights from Moscow to Milan and Rome on May 2. The airline also won licenses...

... Transaero is now considering routing its U.S.-bound flights from Russia through the Shannon airport, where passengers could clear U.S. customs and avoid potentially avoid long lines upon arrival in the United States, the Irish Times reported Monday. Rival Aeroflot also offers nonstop service to Los Angeles from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, making the trip fives times a week on Airbus A330 aircraft. Aeroflot also has nonstop service to New York and Washington. Other airlines with nonstop flights between...

... the Tu-144, a Concorde-like supersonic airliner that was unveiled with great fanfare in the 1960s but was withdrawn after proving unreliable and suffering two fatal air crashes. Sukhoi would now have to pin their hopes on current Superjet operators Aeroflot and Armenian carrier Armavia to build up a successful operating record with the aircraft, he added. There are currently only seven aircraft operating commercially — six with Aeroflot, which uses the craft for connections between Moscow...

... owners of Siberia Airlines have put their stake in the company up for sale, a source in the airline industry told Interfax. He said Vladislav and Natalya Filev mandated financial institutions to sell their shares. "Unofficial offers were made to Aeroflot and Transaero. The price for the company is $300 million to $350 million," he said, adding that the second carrier of the S7 Group, Globus, is not being sold. Two other sources said an offer had also been made to UTair. The carrier's press...

... dividend payout for 2011 to 67.6 million rubles ($2.1 million), compared with 30.4 million rubles paid out for 2010. The announcement comes following considerable growth for the company, which saw its net profits triple last year to 1.8 billion rubles. Aeroflot is also preparing to give big payments to its shareholders. The company's board of directors agreed to direct 19.2 percent of its net profits for 2011 toward dividend payments. This would amount to 1.9 billion rubles, or 1.81 rubles per share...

... French authorities seized a $20 million villa from Berezovsky at Russia's asking. Russia has unsuccessfully sought Berezovsky's extradition from Britain on a variety of charges, including embezzlement of millions of dollars from state-owned airline Aeroflot and automaker AvtoVAZ. 179742

... benchmark to base emissions allowances on. The scheme caps emissions at 97 percent of the previous year's levels, dropping to 95 percent from 2013. Airlines emitting more than their allocated allowance will have to slash emissions or buy more allowances. Aeroflot, the country's largest airline, has estimated that the regulation could cost it $15 million in 2012. Russian airlines confirmed that they had submitted the necessary information, but said they still hoped they would be able to avoid paying the...

... even to a healthy person." Kristina Ilinskaya, a senior aide to the prosecutor, said they are looking into the case but that it is currently unclear who was responsible for the scandal, since it was a code-share flight between Vladivostok Air and Aeroflot. "At the moment, the prosecutor is clarifying the reasons for the refusal to transport a passenger with poor mobility and also the reasons why they fined her," she said, RBK reported. Vladivostok Air is also undertaking an internal...

... working in Russia in 1992, has significantly more assets than Sberbank — $1.87 trillion as opposed to Sberbank's $337.3 billion — but its global brand ranking is below its Russian competitor at 82nd place. Other Russian brands, including Aeroflot and Russian Railways, have also recently undertaken rebranding efforts but so far failed to make it to the top 100. MTS slid in the rankings despite reporting a 59 percent increase in its first-quarter net profit earlier this week. The company...

...." Those days are still far off, however. There are currently just 11 Dreamliners in service, all in Japan: seven with All Nipon Airways and four with JAL. While Boeing has received 26 orders for Dreamliners from Russian airlines — 22 from Aeroflot and four from Transaero — it is unclear when they will be delivered. Boeing declines to comment on delivery times to specific customers, but says about half the 75 to 82 new-model planes it plans to build this year will be Dreamliners....

... been able to secure United Russia's victory and a new governor was needed as soon as possible so he could make changes, Levchenko said. Moreover, Mezentsev damaged his reputation in June 2011 after ordering his aides to delay a regularly scheduled Aeroflot flight to Moscow for which he was running late. A few months later, Mezentsev was criticized by Medvedev for failing to douse forest fires around Bratsk, the region's second-largest city. Ahead of the March 4 presidential election, Mezentsev...

... Kazan airport in May and another in March, when a Superjet was forced to return to the Astrakhan airport with a landing gear fault. A new Superjet costs about $30 million dollars, but there are only a handful currently flying commercially — with Aeroflot and Armenia’s Armavia. The aircraft was designed to replace the aging Soviet Tu-134 aircraft, but it is also being marketed abroad. The plane that disappeared in Indonesia had completed successful exhibition flights in Myanmar, Pakistan...

... to maintain smooth asphalt. And due to the peninsula's isolation, food prices soar to reflect high import costs. Bringing up either of these two constants of life on Kamchatka is sure to get you into a long discussion with any local. How to get there Aeroflot and Transaero both make the nine-hour flight between Moscow and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport (+7 4153-19-95-61; airport-pkc.ru ). A round-trip fare costs about 12,000 rubles in the winter and 42,000 rubles ($400 or $1,400) in the peak summer...

... around 15 degrees Celsius. In the winter, they rarely dip below minus 15 degrees Celsius. Jokes about igloos and reindeer herding aren't appreciated. Most people live in apartment buildings and hold desk jobs. How to get there Nordavia, a subsidiary of Aeroflot, offers direct flights to Murmansk Airport ( airport-murmansk.ru ) from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, while UTair has flights from Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Both airlines use Boeing 737 aircraft for the 1,500-kilometer flight, which lasts two...