ATC Avia - Aeroflot transports eight million passengers from Jan-Nov

AEROFLOT-RUSSIAN Airlines transported a total of 720,500 passengers in November and provided 2.172 billion passenger-kilometres, totalling 104 per cent of the passengers carried in the same month a year earlier, said the Russian Transport Daily Report. The passenger load factor amounted to 69.7 per cent, which it said is 1.8 per cent as much as in the same month a year earlier. During the first 11 months of the year Aeroflot transported 8.015 million passengers, and provided 23.762 billion passenger-kilometres. The passenger load factor was 69.5 per cent, while the cargo load factor amounted to 55.8 per cent, the report said.

2/12/2010 China Eastern seeks investor

CHINA Eastern Airlines is taking steps to improve its performance, such as seeking strategic investors and widening its flight network, to help build Shanghai into an international air hub after finalizing its takeover of Shanghai Airlines.

2/1/2010 China plans national aviation industrial zone

An ambitious 40 billion yuan (US$ 5.9 billion) industrial zone for aircraft parts is being planned in South China to produce up to a quarter of the supply for big Chinese planes, a Jiangxi provincial said on Thursday.

1/22/2010 Hong Kong forecasts return to air cargo growth in 2010

Hong Kong forecasts return to air cargo growth in 2010

1/22/2010 Aeroflot retires last Tu-154, the workhorse of Russian skies

Aeroflot retires last Tu-154, the workhorse of Russian skies

1/21/2010 Shanghai's exports up 1st time in 14 months

SHANGHAI'S exports rose for the first time in 14 months last December, while imports soared even higher as the city's economy posted a stronger recovery momentum, Shanghai Customs said.