Russia’s biggest cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has suspended all flights using Boeing aircraft due to Western sanctions, it said on Friday. Sanctions have cut off the supply of most aircraft and parts to Russia. The United States and Europe have closed their airspace to Russian airlines, and Moscow has responded by imposing the same measure…
On March 15, 2022, Lufthansa Cargo’s first Airbus 321 freighter entered into service for the first time. The flight took off at 16:21 (CET), under flight number LH8350. The flight took off from Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) to Dublin, Ireland (DUB), then continued to Manchester, UK (MAN). The aircraft, named “Hello Europe” was loaded with regular…
Facing restrictions, the busiest airport in Russia had to limit operations. Moscow Sheremetyevo airport stopped operations on runway launched in 2019. The airport also suspended investment projects and significantly reduced all non-production costs. In addition, the terminals E,D of “Sheremetyevo” airport are temporarily closed.
The UK’s busiest airport will abandon the requirement to wear a mask from Wednesday this week. Face coverings at Heathrow will no longer be mandatory, though the airport “strongly encourages those at the airport to continue wearing a face covering – particularly when coming into close contact with others”. A statement read: “Face coverings will…
Russian fired missiles at Dnipro, destroying a runway and severely damaging infrastructure. “At night, the enemy attacked Dnipro airport. Two missile strikes. A runway was destroyed. A terminal was damaged. Large-scale destruction,” Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Valentyn Reznichenko posted on Facebook. Reznichenko noted that it would take a long time to restore…
Hundreds of foreign-owned aircraft could be seized by the Russian government. Russian state media outlet TASS reported that President Putin had enacted legislation for the Russian government to seize foreign leased aircraft and re-register them as locally owned assets. The announcement after EU revoked the licenses of hundreds of aircraft leased to Russian operators in…
The Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCCA) has suspended the licenses of around 740 Russian aircraft operating under the agreement between Bermuda and the Russian Federation. The suspension of all Certificates of Airworthiness of those aircraft was brought into effect at 23:59 UTC on March 12th 2022. In a press release, a BCCA spokesperson said: “International…
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s private jet has landed at Ben Gurion airport, after taking off earlier from Moscow. It is not clear if the billionaire himself was on board. Even though Abramovich has Israeli citizenship, his presence in Israel at the current time could place the Israeli government at odds with the US and EU.…
The Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv has been shelled by Russian forces, the city administration said on Monday. Tweeting about the attack, the Ukrainian parliament said that the Russian occupiers also attacked a high-rise building along with the plant, killing at least two people. Seven people were injured in the attack, while about 70 people…
A video released from Russian MOD shows the Antonov An-225 intact in her hangar during the first assault. The video shows the assault of Gostomel Airport by Russian paratroopers on on February 24, 2022. The Antonov Mriya has been destroyed few days later.
A Pobeda captain announced that the war against Ukraine “is a crime” in one of his latest flights to Turkey. The pilot works for Aeroflot’s subsidiary, Pobeda, and he delivered the message on his flight to the Turkish city of Antalya. Some of the passengers reportedly applauded him. In a video shared on the internet,…
Finnair said that some of its airplanes flying near Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave and eastern border with Russia had noticed interference with the plane’s GPS in the last few days. The interference reportedly began after Finnish President Sauli Niinisto met U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Saturday to discuss increasing defence ties between Finland and…