IrAero and Aurora Airlines have announced that they are to purchase several Russian airliners through leasing agreements, including the Yakovlev SJ-100 and MC-21.
If there were a graveyard for airlines, it would be littered with the headstones of various ‘airlines within airlines’ that legacy carriers established over the years to fight off competition from low-cost start-ups. Lee Cross looks back at the multiple failures
The prototype Ilyushin IL-114-300, number 54115, has received the corporate livery of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) as it continues its test flight programme.