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29.08.2010 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) is expected to be rebranded later this year with Moscow Airlines supposedly being one of the proposed names. It has announced several new scheduled services previously operated as charters: Moscow Vnukovo-Antalya: up to 3x daily seasonal Il-86 service has started on June 8 Moscow Vnukovo-Dalaman: weekly seasonal Il-86 service has started on June 5 Moscow Vnukovo-Hurghada: 5x weekly B737-800 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Nakhichevan: weekly B737-800 service has started on July 27 Moscow Vnukovo-Sharm el Sheikh: 3x weekly B737-800 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Simferopol: daily seasonal B737-300/Il-86 service between June 18 and September 15 Its Moscow Vnukovo-Istanbul Ataturk route has been cut as of March 26 already. Continent (PK/) is planning to start charter operations with an ex-Aero Rent (PC/Moscow Vnukovo) Tu-154B2 and two ex-Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) and ex-Bulgarian Air Charter (1T/Sofia) Tu-154Ms. It already operates two Il-76 freighters. 24.01.2010 Rosavia (Moscow Vnukovo) has delayed its plans to make a decision on offers received from Airbus and Boeing in December for a 65 new aircraft. Its main shareholder Rostekhnologii is reportedly considering other options for the regional carriers in which it currently holds stakes including a possible investment in Aeroflot (SU/Moscow Sheremetyevo) and cooperation with the flag carrier instead of its previous plan to build up a new competitor. In October, it had agreed with the Moscow city government to first merge Saravia (6W/Saratov), SAT Airlines (Russia) (HZ/Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Vladivostok Air (XF/Vladivostok) that all are under full or majority control of Rostekhnologii with Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Chkalovksy) that is owned by the Moscow city government. KMV - Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KV/Mineralnye Vody), Orenair (R2/Orenburg) and Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg) would have been merged into Rosavia at a later stage under the plan. In the meantime, Rostekhnologii has even been considered handing over Rossiya to the St. Petersburg city government because of the big financial difficulties Rossiya has been running into, so the status of the entire Rosavia project currently seems to be unclear. 11.10.2009 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has closed its second base in Krasnoyarsk again as part of a restructuring plan put in place by the Moscow city government that hopes to improve the financial performance of Atlant-Soyuz ahead of its proposed integration into Rosavia (Moscow Vnukovo). It has grounded three of its five Tu-154Ms as a result but is planning to lease three additional ex-Ryanair (FR/Dublin) B737-800s. It has again resumed scheduled services with its EMB-120 fleet in the meantime: Moscow Vnukovo-Brest: 3x weekly EMB-120 service starting on October 9 Moscow Vnukovo-Grodno: 3x weekly EMB-120 service resuming on October 9 Moscow Vnukovo-Liepaja: 3x weekly EMB-120 service resuming on October 10 Moscow Vnukovo-Minsk Intl 1: 4x weekly EMB-120 service resuming on October 10 20.06.2009 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has signed an agreement with Ilyushin Finance to lease 30 An-148s and 15 Tu-204s with deliveries starting in 2010. It has launched more new and ex-AirUnion routes: Moscow Vnukovo-Baku: 3x weekly B737-300 service has started on May 18 Moscow Vnukovo-Thessaloniki: 2x weekly B737-300 service has started on April 29 It has however given up its Moscow Vnukovo-Liepaja and Moscow Vnukovo-Pskov routes on March 16 and has suspended all scheduled operations with its three EMB-120 aircraft. It had already suspended services to Grodno, Ivanovo and Minsk Intl 1 before. It is currently reviewing possible options for its EMB-120 fleet including charter services and expects to lease fewer additional aircraft than initially planned. Sky Express (Russia) (XW/Moscow Vnukovo) has been offered for sale to the Moscow city government for 1 USD by its 75% shareholder Vitaly Vantsev but the government which controls Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (3G/Moscow Chkalovskaya) and will be a shareholder in the new state owned Rosavia (Moscow Vnukovo) has rejected the offer as “impractical”. 25.02.2009 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) will be fully taken over by the Moscow government ahead of its integration into Rosavia (Moscow Vnukovo). It has also leased four additional Tu-154Ms and has announced plans to lease three additional B737-300s to support its fast growth related to all of the former AirUnion routes it has taken over. 20.12.2008 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) will add a third ex-Ryanair (FR/Dublin) B737-800. 14.12.2008 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has not been able to take over the majority of AirUnion routes because of a lack of suitable aircraft. It is unclear how many aircraft have actually been transferred from failed AirUnion carriers Domodedovo Airlines, Kras Air and Samara Airlines but the number is expected to be very small so far including three B757-200s and one B767-200ER. Atlant-Soyuz has leased two ex-XL Airways UK B737-800s. It will launch some former AirUnion routes now and has adopted the 7B carrier code from defunct Kras Air: Krasnoyarsk-Beijing: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 15 Krasnoyarsk-Dushanbe: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23 Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk-Yakutsk: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on January 5 Krasnoyarsk-Khudzhand: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23 Krasnoyarsk-Norilsk: 6x weekly Tu-154M service (already launched) Krasnoyarsk-Vladivostok: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 29 Krasnoyarsk-Yuzhno Sakhalinsk-Vladivostok: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 26 Moscow Vnukovo-Athens: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on March 18 Moscow Vnukovo-Blagoveschensk: 3x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 22 Moscow Vnukovo-Bukhara: weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Dushanbe: 2x daily Tu-154M service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Fergana: weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Grodno: 4x weekly EMB-120 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Gyandzha: weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Ivanovo: 2x daily EMB-120 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Khabarovsk: 4x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 21 Moscow Vnukovo-Krasnoyarsk: daily Tu-154M service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Norilsk: weekly Tu-154M service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Omsk: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 21 Moscow Vnukovo-Salzburg: 2x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 20 Moscow Vnukovo-Samarkand: 2x weekly B737-300 service (already launched) Moscow Vnukovo-Tashkent: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 20 Moscow Vnukovo-Tomsk: 6x weekly B737-300 service starting on December 21 Moscow Vnukovo-Yakutsk: 3x weekly B757-200 service starting on December 21 Samara-Baku: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 24 Samara-Dushanbe: 2x weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 23 Samara-Yerevan: weekly Tu-154M service starting on December 28 It is also planning to resume previous AirUnion services from Moscow Vnukovo to Beijing, Kazan and Tivat. Rosavia (Moscow Vnukovo) has been registered in November as a joint venture between Rostekhnologii and the Moscow government. The company is planning to operate with three divisions in Eastern, Central and Western Russia and is supposed to become a major competitor for Aeroflot (SU/Moscow Sheremetyevo) although exact details of its launch plans are not yet known. The new carrier is expected to be based on or operating in cooperation with Moscow government owned Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (3G/Moscow Chkalovskaya) and include some of the assets of failed AirUnion carriers Domodedovo Airlines, Kras Air and Samara Airlines as well as Dalavia that have all suspended operations at the end of September. KMV - Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KV/Mineralnye Vody), Orenburg Airlines (R2/Orenburg), Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg), Saravia (6W/Saratov) and Vladivostok Air (XF/Vladivostok) are also expected to be taken over by the new carrier although no final agreement has been reached yet on funding and the merger of the carriers. The carriers main base will be Moscow Vnukovo with additional main hubs in Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk and St. Petersburg. 21.09.2008 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) will take over flight operations of all carriers of the AirUnion alliance later this month. The alliance has run into major financial difficulties in August and was forced to temporarily suspend operations from various Russian airports in the second half of August because of unpaid fuel, ground handling and landing fee bills. Domodedovo Airlines (E3/Moscow Domodedovo), Kras Air (7B/Krasnoyarsk), Omskavia (N3/Omsk), Samara Airlines (E5/Samara) and Sibaviatrans (5M/Krasnoyarsk) are now expected to be integrated into a new Atlant-Soyuz Airlines. All government owned shares in these carriers have been transfered to Rostekhnologii to prepare the transaction that is supposed to be completed by mid-2009. The Russian government then plans to create a new alliance with the new larger Atlant-Soyuz Airlines, KMV - Kavkazskie Mineralnye Vody (KV/Mineralnye Vody), Orenburg Airlines (R2/Orenburg), Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg), Saravia (6W/Saratov) and Vladivostok Air (XF/Vladivostok). All AirUnion services from/to Moscow have been transferred from Domodedovo to Vnukovo airport on September 7. The alliance has given up its routes from Krasnoyarsk to Igarka and Kemerovo, from Moscow to Adler/Sochi, Baku and Tivat, from Norilsk to Abakan, Ekaterinburg and Omsk as well as the Samara-Ufa route since operations have resumed. Domodedovo Airlines has already started codesharing on Vladivostok Air services between Moscow Vnukovo and Komsomolsk na Amure. In other news, Atlant-Soyuz has given up plans to take delivery of Il-96-400T freighters and has launched three times weekly EMB-120 service between Moscow Vnukovo and Liepaja on August 19. Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) is planning to lease six B737-800s to replace its Il-86s on charter services. 04.04.2008 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has launched six times weekly EMB-120 service from Moscow Vnukovo to Pskov on February 15. It also uses its EMB-120s for a daily service linking Moscow Vnukovo and Minsk Intl 1. It has signed a leasing agreement for additional two Il-96-400T freighters and now plans to operate five aircraft of the type by 2010. In other news, it has also added an ex-Continental Airways (PC/Moscow Sheremetyevo) Tu-154M to its fleet for charter services. 09.02.2008 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has added a second ex-ASA - Atlantic Southeast Airlines (EV/Atlanta) EMB-120. It will shortly take delivery of its first Il-96-400T freighter. 25.11.2007 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has added a first ex-Skywest Airlines (USA) (OO/Salt Lake City) EMB-120 and two ex-Continental Airways (PC/Moscow Sheremetyevo) Tu-154Ms. 28.09.2007 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has placed an order for two B737-700s. It has also added an ex-Tatarstan Air (U9/Kazan) Il-86 and an ex-Continental Airways (PC/Moscow Sheremetyevo) Tu-154M to its fleet. 29.07.2007 Smartwings (QS/Prague) is codesharing with Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (3G/Moscow Chkalovskaya) on the latter's new Brno-Moskow Vnukovo service. Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) will lease three Il-96-400T freighters that will be delivered between 2008 and 2011. Atlant-Soyuz will use the aircraft for a joint venture with Evergreen Intl Airlines (EZ/Marana) that will supply several B747-200F freighters to launched a new Russian cargo carrier. It is also planning to lease an additional ten EMB-120 for scheduled regional services. It has launched several new routes recently: Moscow Vnukovo-Brno: weekly B737-300 service launched on July 29 Moscow Vnukovo-Novokuznetsk: 3x weekly B737-300 service launched on June 15 St. Petersburg-Novokuznetsk: weekly Tu-154M service 28.07.2007 Tatarstan Air (U9/Kazan) has placed a firm order for six CRJ-900s and has also secured options for another four aircraft of the same type. It will take delivery of the first aircraft later this year but is planning to lease out the aircraft to other carriers until the CRJ-900 certification process in Russia has been completed. It has also added an ex-Karat (V2/Moscow Domodedovo) Tu-134 and an ex-Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (3G/Moscow Chkalovskaya) Il-86 to its fleet. 01.05.2007 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has leased an ex-Transaero Airlines (UN/Moscow Domodedovo) Il-86. 25.11.2006 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has taken delivery of its first two B737-300s. 07.09.2006 Moskovia Airlines (3R/Moscow Zhukovsky) is the new name of charter operator Gromov Air. It has added an ex-Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (3G/Moscow Chkalovskaya) Tu-154M to its fleet. Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has leased five ex-Delta Air Lines (DL/Atlanta) B737-300s and has added an ex-Vnukovo Airlines Il-86. 11.06.2006 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has purchased a seventh ex-Russian Sky Airlines (P7/Moscow Domodedovo) Il-86. 04.05.2006 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has acquired two ex-Skywest Airlines (OO/Salt Lake City) EMB-120s. 24.01.2006 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) is planning to add six B737-300s and EMB-120s to its fleet. 09.04.2005 Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) has added its first ex-Sibir Airlines (S7/Novosibirsk) Tu-154M. Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (7B/Moscow Vnukovo) is considering leasing up to seven A320-200s.