Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation *News Feed* Thread

multimark · Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:03 am

Bombardier suspends all activity in Russia including technical assistance:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bombardier- ... -1.1732806

schernov · Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:29 am

Conflicting news about general director of SU resigning. https://m.gazeta.ru/social/news/2022/03 ... 2217.shtml

Subsequently there was a reversal of the news.

jamesontheroad · Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:08 am

The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency recommends that airlines with aircraft registered overseas stop all flights outside Russia from 00.00 March 6, and flights from abroad from 00.00 March 8.

https://twitter.com/rianru/status/15000 ... 12737?s=21

fcogafa · Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:50 pm

Lessors may be able to claim insurance on frames lost if confiscated

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... -war-zone/

dcajet · Sat Mar 05, 2022 7:34 pm

Citing difficulties to obtain jet fuel at Moscow SVO, Korean Air cancelled its scheduled passenger and cargo flights that were supposed to call at SVO for the next 2 weeks.

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/03/ko ... s-semanas/

JannEejit · Sat Mar 05, 2022 7:39 pm

As regards that Il-96 flight into Washington today.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/0 ... s-00014418

factsonly · Sat Mar 05, 2022 8:43 pm

KLM has evacuated 287 Ukranian holiday makers stuck in the Dominican Republic, as their Ukranian airline is no longer operational.

- 04 Mar 2022 POS 21.02 - PUJ 21.37 KLM9865 A333 KLM PH-AKB
- 04 Mar 2022 PUJ 23.49 - AMS 12.21 KLM9866 A333 KLM PH-AKB

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... b#2b079d44

asuflyer · Sun Mar 06, 2022 5:07 pm

As of March 6th, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines and their LCC subsidiary Buta Airways will no longer fly to Russia.

In Russia, AZAL served Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Vnukovo, St. Petersburg in Russia. While Buta Airways served Astrakhan, Kazan, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Vnukovo, Moscow–Zhukovsky St. Petersburg and Ufa.

https://www.azernews.az/nation/190260.html

DLPMMM · Sun Mar 06, 2022 9:04 pm

Japan considers denying overflights by Russia

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220307_01/

oldJoe · Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:40 pm

Boeing stops buying Russian titanium
https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/boeing-stops-buying-russian-titanium/147824.article

dcajet · Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:54 pm

Russian leisure airline Azur Air is operating a VKO-PUJ flight today (repatriation flight, surely) with a 767-306ER RA-73034. A quick check seems to indicate that it was purchased by Azur Air from the lessor AerCap back in 2020 and added to the RA- registry, No risk of repossession for this one, it seems.

https://www.flightradar24.com/AZV555/2b0d5814

AshFlops · Mon Mar 07, 2022 8:40 pm

Foreign Airlines which still fly to Russia are having issues buying fuel there, leading to more cancellations.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ko ... np1taskbar

c933103 · Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:44 am

https://tabiris.com/archives/af275/
JAL cite Cold War era experience to resume European flights using polar route through Alaska and Iceland to London, while ANA cited concern over possible lack of non-Russian ETOPS diversion alternative airport for twin-engine jet as for the reason why they fly over Central Asia instead of polar route when they first resumed their service. But both airlines say future services could see further adjustment, and with the factor of wind taken into account, advantage of polar route versus Central Asia route are different on westbound vs eastbound.

redcap1962 · Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:27 pm

UTair Aviation has re-registered two B767's (c/n unknown) from VP- to RA- register:

Boeing 767 -224 ? RA-73082 UTair Aviation re-regd first in svc 07mar22 VKO-LED-EVN-VKO ex VP-B ?
Boeing 767 -224 ? RA-73081 UTair Aviation re-regd first in svc 06mar22 LVKO-DYU ex VP-B ?

https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb. ... av4&page=4

bob75013 · Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:40 pm

Russia Roils Plane-Backed Bonds by Keeping $10 Billion of Jets

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-r ... 56312.html

EightyFour · Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:05 am

A Russian plane has been impounded by British authorities at Farnborough, unknown as of yet what plane and who the owner is.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russ ... eblog-body

jomur · Wed Mar 09, 2022 10:23 am

UK Ministers are making it a criminal offence for planes owned or chartered by Russians to enter UK airspace.

Russian-owned craft are already banned from flying to the UK, but the new move is aimed at targeting private jets registered in a third country being chartered by wealthy Russians.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60671843

redcap1962 · Wed Mar 09, 2022 10:51 am

Sky Gates Airlines ceased operations and both 744F were transferred to Silk Way West Airlines:
https://www.planespotters.net/airline/S ... s-Airlines

TC957 · Wed Mar 09, 2022 3:50 pm

EightyFour wrote:
A Russian plane has been impounded by British authorities at Farnborough, unknown as of yet what plane and who the owner is.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russ ... eblog-body

It's the Global 6500 LX-FLY.
https://www.cityam.com/breaking-uk-auth ... hampshire/

JannEejit · Wed Mar 09, 2022 5:45 pm

Russian il-96, RA-96019 is out on another long range mission. It's done a large eastern detour round Ukraine, then south and west over the Black Sea, currently heading south over Turkey as I write.

RSD8 from Moscow https://fr24.com/RSD008/2b13a14c

MareBorealis · Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:47 pm

Finnair is helping Ukrainian refugees to travel to Finland̈. Available in March: 95% off one-way ticket to Helsinki from Warsaw, Gdańsk, Kraków, Budapest and Prague.
Ukrainians can travel from all Schengen areas without a pass. (birth certification will do as an ID to enter Finland)

https://twitter.com/Finnair/status/1501511373834133506

atcsundevil · Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:50 pm

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dcajet · Fri Mar 11, 2022 3:02 am

Citing "operational reasons" Air Astana of Kazakhstan has suspended all flights to secondary cities in Russia. Only flights to Moscow from Almaty and Nur-Sultan are operating.

https://dknews.kz/en/articles-in-englis ... -to-russia

Third airline from countries that have not imposed sanctions on Russia that suspend operations to Russia this week, Azerbaijan Airlines and Korean Air are the other two. In the case of KAL, they point to the inability to source jet fuel at Moscow SVO.

https://www.businessinsider.com/Korean% ... hts-2022-3

readytotaxi · Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:32 am

Two more airlines have suspended Russian flights, according to CNN.
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana and Pegasus Airlines, based in Turkey, have suspended “all flights to and from Russia,” according to the news outlet.
“Air Astana sincerely regrets to advise that due [to] the withdrawal of insurance coverage for commercial flights to, from and over the Russian Federation, all flights to the Russian Federation are suspended with immediate effect,” Air Astana tweeted Thursday.

https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/russ ... V5VT4SNYM/

More insurers will probably pull cover very soon.

schernov · Sun Mar 13, 2022 4:34 am

Bermuda suspends Russian certs
https://bernews.com/2022/03/bcaa-airwor ... estricted/

usdcaguy · Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:25 pm

The AP is reporting that Air Serbia will be reducing the number of its flights to Moscow to one daily, at some point in the future. Lots to unpack here, including Serbia's alliance with Moscow and the EU's insistence that Serbia, as an aspiring EU member, follow it in matters of foreign policy:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... d8261f5e94

factsonly · Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:57 pm

13 March 2022:

Nippon Cargo Airlines relaunched its Japan to Europe flights today, now routing its services over Anchorage:

- 13 Mar 2022 KZ4 NRT 17.55 - 08.00 ANC 09.25 - 03.20 AMS B748 JA18KZ

NCA halted all cargo flights from Japan to Europe when airspace closures occured.
Anchorage is a regular NCA crew stop for Japan-USA services, so opening ANC-AMS was a relatively simple step for the Japanese airline.

https://www.flightradar24.com/NCA004/2b20035e

bob75013 · Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:34 am

Putin signs law to seize foreign planes
https://goodwordnews.com/putin-signs-la ... -aviation/

asuflyer · Tue Mar 15, 2022 3:21 am

Korean Air will no longer operate any flights in Russian airspace. Flights to Europe will fly the southern routing through Kazakh airspace. Moscow and Vladivostok, its two destinations in Russia are currently suspended.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/busines ... um=twitter

Someone83 · Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:20 am

According to CH-aviation, the Russian airline Royal Flight, ceases operations

AlexA340B777 · Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:09 am

schernov wrote:
Bermuda suspends Russian certs
https://bernews.com/2022/03/bcaa-airwor ... estricted/

Following webpage is collecting all affected aircraft and following up on the new regos in a summary list:

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/trac ... sian-jets/

oldJoe · Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:26 am

Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Thursday it was not routing flights through Russia’s airspace, joining a growing number of Asian airlines avoiding the area after the invasion of Ukraine despite longer flight times.
https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-cathay-pacific/update-1-cathay-pacific-says-not-routing-flights-through-russian-airspace-idINL2N2VK0B5

SR380 · Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:13 am

As per multiple sources, the EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency) as withdraw the airworthiness certificate of the SSJ and Tupolev Tu-204. On what basis are they doing that? Are this aircarfts not safe to fly to the EU from one day to the other or is it just more sanction on the Russian Aircraft industry?

On the "lighter" side, we might see a boost in Russian domestic aircarft such as the Tu-204, the Il-96, Il-114 and Russian SSJ while the MC-21 and CR-929 are still in developoemnent.

https://www.air-journal.fr/2022-03-18-g ... 34462.html

https://www.air-journal.fr/2022-03-18-g ... 34462.html

traveller79 · Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:00 am

Russian airline Pobeda is reducing its fleet from 41 to 25 Boeing aircraft due to a lack of spare parts.

https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-airline-idUSL2N2VS1VJ

JKzhong · Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:04 am

Lessor BOC Aviation repossesses 747-8 cargo plane from Russian operator.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 022-03-30/

lightsaber · Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:27 pm

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AshFlops · Tue Apr 12, 2022 1:18 pm

The Airport in Dnipro has been destroyed by the Russian Army. This airport had service to KBP and TLV on UIA.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/dn ... ar-AAW457c

https://simpleflying.com/dnipro-airport ... destroyed/

Nileblue · Wed Apr 13, 2022 8:19 pm

EgyptAir will resume their Moscow service from 18th April. The B738 will be deployed on the daily CAI-DME flight:
https://www.zawya.com/en/business/aviat ... 5-vxsi05b2

The Egyptian government will provide the insurance coverage:
https://www.businessinsurance.com/artic ... an-flights

tapairbus370 · Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:27 pm

Interesting article about the possible reconstruction of the AN-225

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ ... index.html

chunhimlai · Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:02 am

S7 suspend Oneworld membership from 19APR

https://www.s7.ru/en/en/about/oneworld.dot

nine4nine · Fri Apr 22, 2022 11:17 pm

AerLease writes off stolen leased aircraft.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/air- ... 04427.html

Spacepope · Sun Apr 24, 2022 8:43 pm

Russian operators say they will begin grounding Superjets due to lack of engine spares beginning this fall. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/3077 ... ne-problem

TEALflyer · Sun May 01, 2022 12:01 am

airBaltic announces Ukrainian plane lease plan

Latvian airline airBaltic announced April 30 that it has agreed to "wet lease" one Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-900ER aircraft.

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/airbaltic-announces-ukrainian-plane-lease-plan.a454721/

chunhimlai · Tue May 03, 2022 12:27 pm

Several airlines to build hub in Sochi to maintain international operation
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news ... =206428733

AshFlops · Mon May 09, 2022 2:16 pm

Interesting article about the evacuation and current location of Ukrainian commercial aircraft:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/u ... 65dc90bb2f

Tack · Fri May 27, 2022 12:08 am

A good few paragraphs in this article about the dire straights sanctions have put Russian commercial aviation in.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ru ... ar-AAXKd7d

dcajet · Mon May 30, 2022 9:52 am

China has banned from its airspace commercial aircraft that Russia "nationalized" earlier this year and requested proof that those aircraft are no longer registered in other jurisdictions.

https://airwaysmag.com/china-closes-airspace-russia/

Spacepope · Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:04 pm

Various reports tha Aeroflot A330-300 RA-73702 has been seized by court order in Sri Lanka. It’s lessor was Aer Cap.

https://www.hirunews.lk/english/306035/ ... ourt-order

https://mobile.twitter.com/AirlineIndus ... 5629652992

dcajet · Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:25 am

This is going to turn an already bad situation into a much worse one...

Russia plans to produce unapproved parts for Western aircraft, as reported by the Russian newspaper, Vedemosti,

https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/06/ru ... -aircraft/

dcajet · Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:33 am

So much for the talk to drastically increase the number of Russian made airliners. In 2022 Russia's UAC will only produce10 SSJ-100s, and even less in 2023, as reported by Russian newspaper Vedemosti.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/artic ... yat-ssj100

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