What is "babyflot"

Babyflot is the informal name given to any airline in the former Soviet Union created from the dissolution of the Soviet airline monopoly Aeroflot in the early 1990s, at the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union. The word is a portmanteau of " baby" and "Aeroflot", compare Baby Bells.

In 1992 Aeroflot was divided into more than 300 regional and other smaller airlines, with many having just one-plane operations. International routes were operated separately as Aeroflot—Russian International Airlines (ARIA). Some airline companies created from the old Aeroflot are now flag carriers of independent post-Soviet countries — for example, Uzbekistan Airlines, and Lithuanian Airlines.