Coming to the ‘eastern block’, its sad to say the least that Russian airlines are choosing Airbus and Boeing over Russian aircraft,
It does depend very much on the airport you’re going to. At Sheremetyevo the bulk of the airliners are Airbus and Boeing. The Russian equipment mainly used as biz-jet and by local ‘Flots (Don, Nord).
At Vnukovo the Russian airliners is still the majority. Both UT Air and Rossiya are based here.
Rossiya, being the government flight, obviously favours Russian equipment. I would expect this to stay until such a time that Russia does not make planes. I believe Rossiya took delivery of the newest IL-96 only a few months ago, so that should say something.
UT Air is a bit different. They have started a fleet renewal with various models of 737 from the 300 series and newer. Also ATRs and CRJ2s are part of their fleet. However, it is a slow process. The largest part of their fleet seen at Vnukovo are still Tu-134s, Tu-154s and An-24s (in that order).
Other bits of interest at Vnukovo are a lot of Tu-134s, Yak-40s and Yak-42 operating as biz-jets. Red Wings´s Tu-204 are cool as well.
Domodedovo is a real mix. Most of it western, S7/Sibir with Airbusses and Transaero with pretty much every type Boeing made since the 737 except for the 757. But there are also a lot of very interesting airlines from the former soviet republics. About half of those flying western, and half of those flying proper equipment.
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