Partner airlines of Moscow International Airport Domodedovo continue launching new routes and increasing flight frequencies with 50 new flights launched from Domodedovo in the first half of 2009. These included seven new partners: American United airlines, Portuguese TAP, Tunis Nouvelair, Russian Nord Star and Aviastar TU, Kazakh Irtish avia and Belorussian Gomelavia. New direct flights by existing partners in June included: Omsk and Krasnodar (Transaero airlines), Ivanovo (Region avia … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Domodedovo broadens route network

AirBridgeCargo Airlines, Volga- Dnepr Group’s scheduled cargo airline, expanded its freight services from Europe to Russia with a new twice weekly service between Milan, Italy and Moscow using B747 freighter aircraft as an extension of the airline’s Amsterdam service . “We will continue to expand our operations where ABC and its customers see opportunities to do so,” said Tatyana Arslanova, ABC’s executive senior vice president, strategy, … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: ABC expands Europe service to Milan

Air Astana, the flag carrier of the Republic of Kazakhstan, has launched a new service linking the capital, Astana to Novosibirsk, an industrial, scientific and cultural city in Siberia, southern Russia. Flights are operated three times a week by Fokker 50 aircraft. The launch of the new Novosibirsk service is part of Air Astana’s strategic plan to significantly expand its Central Asia network, which has already seen the introduction of new services between Almaty to Baku, capital … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: New Russian route for Air Astana

A 190-tonne generator bound for a gas-powered electricity plant in the Armenian capital Yerevan will be the heaviest item ever delivered by air freight, according to officials at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. While larger loads have been carried by air, they have always comprised several items, “this is the largest single item ever delivered by air,” the airport said. The generator will be transported by a Ukrainian-built Antonov 225 aircraft. … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Largest single piece of air cargo

AirBridgeCargo (ABC), Volga-Dnepr Group’s scheduled cargo airline, has begun operating weekly flights to Kabul (Afghanistan) effective 14 July. The carrier is utilising B747-200/300 aircraft and will operate scheduled charters from Frankfurt to Kabul with a payload of almost 100 tonnes. The first flight carried armoured vehicles on board which have been handled by local company Ariana in the airport of Kabul. … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: AirBridgeCargo starts weekly 747Fs to Kabul

Cargo volume declined five per cent in the first half of 2009 for Volga-Dnepr, Russia’s biggest air cargo carrier. The decline, to 835,000 tonne kilometers in the six months to 30 June, contrasted with an average fall of between 19 and 23 per cent for rival Russian carriers, Volga-Dnepr said. The group’s scheduled cargo carrier, AirBridgeCargo Airlines, boosted traffic by five per cent to 551,000 tonne kilometers. AirBridgeCargo’s volume was up 4.6 per cent … [Read more...] about EUROPE & CIS: Mixed results for Volga-Dnepr