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n. The largest airline in Russia.
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OJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (, ) , commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ) (, English translation: "air fleet", ), is the flag carrier and largest airline of the Russian Federation. The carrier operates domestic and international passenger and services, mainly from its hub at Sheremetyevo International Airport.
Aeroflot is one of the oldest airlines in the world, tracing its history back to 1923. During the Soviet era, Aeroflot was the Soviet national airline and the largest airline in the world. Following the dissolution of the USSR, the carrier has been transformed from a state-run enterprise into a semi-privatised company which ranked 19th most profitable airline in the world in 2007. Aeroflot is still considered the de facto national airline of Russia. It is 51%-owned by the Russian Government. , the Aeroflot Group had 30,328 employees.
The company has embarked on a fleet modernisation programme, extensive route restructuring, and an image overhaul. The airline joined SkyTeam in April 2006, becoming the member of the alliance.
Usage examples of "aeroflot".
He had slept deeply on the five-hour shuttle Aeroflot Tupolev from Novosibirsk, via Sverdlovsk, Perm, Kirov and Vologda - but a sleep interrupted when he was jerked out of unconsciousness each time the plane landed.
She and her husband would probably be sent home on the next Aeroflot flight.
Shortly after midnight, just as Komulakov had decided to go get some sleep, an Aeroflot flight arrived from Odessa, carrying the six former Department V officers whom Komulakov had summoned earlier in the day.
Vorontsyev was on the point of asking about the secure channel to Moscow, and Aeroflot flights.
Vladivostok Airport, looking out over the windy tarmac to the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 which would take him to Moscow.
By six-thirty he was at Vladivostok Airport, looking out over the windy tarmac to the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 which would take him to Moscow.
Aeroflot rocketplane had landed him at Vnukovo airport, Mike had expected them, sooner or later.
OLGA ROMANCHANKO KIEV END OF MESSAGE That afternoon Robert was on an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu 154 jet to Paris.
The big room was empty of other customers except for one table filled with a loud crew of Russians from an Aeroflot liner Baedecker could see out the window.
The same messenger handed over a note saying that Colonel Bondarenko had taken the 1730 Aeroflot flight to Dushanbe, and that ground transport from the civil airport to Bright Star had been arranged.
Departing from Zaventem Airport the next day was a leased, decrepit Aeroflot plane whose passengers were a motley, rowdy group of backpackers who had paid bargain-basement prices for the "Moscow Nights" package tour of Russia--three nights and four days in Moscow, followed by an overnight train to St.
The diplomatic bag, which actually is a bag, or at least a series of canvas sacks, goes from Moscow to London every Wednesday and always on the British Air-ways flight, never Aeroflot.
The courier was flying Aeroflot to Heathrow with a diplomatic bag, which was inviolable so long as the courier kept it in his possession countries had been known to steal them for their contents, which were often uncoded, but couriers knew about that, and played by a strict set of rules-if they had to visit the can, so did the bag.
Before he was twenty, he was wanted for the theft of Aeroflot tickets, vandalism, sale of radio parts to young people whose 'pirate' stations interfered with government transmissions, and old-fashioned highway robbery.
He came in yesterday afternoon on the Aeroflot flight from Magadan carrying a passport in the name of Ivan Ivanovitch, U.