Air transport

Just weeks after receiving the Type Certificates from the Russian authorities for the E170 and E175 jets, S7 Airlines will be the first operator of the E170 in the country. 

Gazpromneft-Aero, the operator of Gazprom Neft’s aviation fuel business, became the first Russian company to join the International Air Transport Association’s Aviation Fuel Data Standards Group (IATA FDSG).

Aeroflot was awarded as The Best Economy Class 2016 in China according to the leading Beijing media source Best Travel Media. The solemn ceremony was held in Beijing.

Starting on February 18, 2017, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will increase the frequency of flights between Saint Petersburg and Amsterdam (the Netherlands), from one to two flights a day.

News for holidaymakers in Croatia: Lufthansa is including Pula in its flight timetable for next summer, with two flights a week (Monday, Friday) from Frankfurt. The airline is thereby adding another destination to its summer programme for leisure travellers.

KLM today announced a major step forward in the pension conflict with the cabin crew unions VNC and FNV.

In its meeting in Frankfurt today, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG appointed Thorsten Dirks to the Executive Board of the Lufthansa Group.

Aeroflot Group published its condensed consolidated interim financial statements for the nine months ended 30 September 2016, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards

The latest Lufthansa fleet aircraft has completed its maiden flight to Munich around three weeks before delivery. The Lufthansa Airbus A350-900 took off on its first flight in Toulouse but without passengers.

Vnesheconombank (VEB), JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA) and Superjet International S.p.A (SJI) met in CityJet's headquarters in Dublin (Ireland) to enter into a Memorandum of Cooperation for financing Sukhoi Superjet 100 supplies.

The two airlines have agreed to sell tickets on other’s flights between Amsterdam and Taipei via code-sharing and block-space agreements, with each getting a set number of seats to sell on each other’s Amsterdam-Taipei-Amsterdam services, using their own flight number.