Aeroflot News

Aeroflot's Passenger Traffic Falls Faster In March

April 23, 2009

Russia's Aeroflot saw the rate of decline in its passenger numbers increase in March, but managed to outperform Russia's airline industry as a whole by a wide margin in the first quarter, it said on Thursday.
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Air France In, Aeroflot Out Of CSA Czech Tender

April 20, 2009

Czech authorities picked Air France-KLM to bid in a tender for flag carrier CSA Czech Airlines but ruled out Russia's Aeroflot, which blamed artificial security concerns for its exclusion.
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Ex-Aeroflot CEO Takes Job At Transport Ministry

March 27, 2009

Valery Okulov, fired on Thursday after almost 12 years as chief executive of Aeroflot, has taken a post as one of six deputies to Transport Minister Igor Levitin, Aeroflot said in a statement on Friday.
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Aeroflot Board Fires CEO Okulov

March 26, 2009

The board of Russia's state-controlled airline Aeroflot has removed veteran chief executive Valery Okulov, a source at the transport ministry said on Thursday, confirming an Interfax report.
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Aeroflot Stakeholder To Fight Removal Of CEO

March 23, 2009

Aeroflot's largest private shareholder said on Monday it would oppose the chief executive's removal -- which could be proposed at the March 26 board meeting -- but added that it cannot stop the move alone.
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Four Groups Interested In Czech Airline

March 23, 2009

The Czech Finance Ministry closed the first round of tendering in the CSA Czech Airlines sale on Monday with four preliminary bids received.
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Russian Air Passengers Afraid Of Future, Aeroflot Hit

March 18, 2009

Russian consumers are no longer buying airline tickets months in advance, an airport executive said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of consumers losing faith in the economy, air travel and their own financial prospects.
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Russia's Move To Unseat Aeroflot CEO Raises Alarm

March 16, 2009

Investors in Aeroflot voiced alarm on Monday over an apparent government attempt to push out the airline's veteran chief executive and give him a post in the transport ministry.
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Yeltsin Son-In-Law May Leave Aeroflot CEO Job - Report

March 12, 2009

The veteran chief executive of Russia's Aeroflot, the son-in-law of Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin, may be replaced by an executive from a Moscow industrial conglomerate, Kommersant daily said on Thursday.
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Superjet Deliveries To Aeroflot Delayed Again

March 4, 2009

The first deliveries of Russia's long delayed Superjet 100 aircraft will be delayed by another month until December, a senior official from Russian state plane maker Sukhoi was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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