Aeroflot Group CEO Sergei Alexandrovsky confirmed earlier information about the resumption of wide-body B747 aircraft operation on the routes of its subsidiary Rossiya Airlines in 2025, Interfax reports.
Speaking to reporters at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Alexandrovsky said Rossiya Airlines’ Boeing 747s are currently undergoing preparations to resume flights.
‘Next year they will return to the skies. The number of aircraft will be known after we take them out of storage. This type will continue to be operated within the group – by Rossiya Airlines,’ the Aeroflot head said.
There were five Boeing 747s of Rossiya Airlines at the end of June 2024 on the register of Rosaviatsia. FrequentFlyers.ru reports that three of them: RA-73283, RA-73286 and RA-73289 have valid airworthiness certificates. The rest are in storage since the pandemic. Now some machines are already undergoing maintenance in preparation for flights.
‘During the period of active operation at domestic and international resort destinations, Rossiya had 9 Boeing 747-400s. All of them still retain dual registration, but work is underway to remove the machines from the Irish register. One of the aircraft (RA-73287) is ‘hung up’ on heavy maintenance in the UAE due to dual registration, another one was returned to the lessor,’ FrequentFlyers writes.
Rossiya Airlines received seven Boeing 747-400 aircraft, which previously flew as part of Transaero Airlines, in 2016, and two more in 2017. It was planned that the planes would be decommissioned by the end of 2023. It was reported that in September 2023, the aircraft would perform about 50 flights on the busy route between Moscow and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk during the end of summer holidays.
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