History
The history of
Aeroflot can be traced back to 9 February 1923, when the
Council of Labour and Defence passed a resolution to create the Civil Air Fleet of the
USSR , amalgamating all pioneer airlines to form
Dobrolet on 25 March 1923.
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[2] : 119 Operations started on 15 July 1923 linking
Moscow and
Nizhny Novgorod , becoming the first regular services of the country.
[2] : 119 The name Aeroflot was adopted in 1932 after the reorganisation of Dobrolet.
[3] By the end of the 1930s the carrier had the following routes in operation:
Kharkiv –Kyiv, Kharkiv–Odesa, Kyiv–Odesa, Kyiv–
Rostov –
Mineralnye Vody , Kyiv–Simferopol, Moscow–
Leningrad , Moscow–
Minsk , Moscow–
Odesa , Moscow–
Sochi , Moscow–
Kuybishev , Moscow–
Baku –
Tbilisi , Moscow–
Simferopol , Moscow–
Stalingrad –
Astrakhan , Tbilisi–
Sukhumi , Tbilisi–
Yerevan ,
Kutasi –
Mestia and
Sukhumi –
Sochi .
[4] Aeroflot's route network was 31,500 kilometres (19,600 miles) long by 1950.
[5] : 44
By April 1965, the carrier operated an extensive domestic and international network that included
Accra ,
Amsterdam ,
Bamako ,
Brussels ,
Cairo ,
Conakry ,
Copenhague ,
Delhi ,
Djakarta ,
Havana ,
Helsinki ,
Kabul ,
Karachi ,
Khartoum ,
London ,
Paris ,
Rabat ,
Rangoon ,
Stockholm and
Vienna ; routes to
Algiers ,
Baghdad ,
Brazzaville ,
Colombo ,
Nicosia ,
Teheran and
Tunis , all of them inaugurated in 1964, were also flown.
[3] In March 1970, Aeroflot had amassed a route network that was 600,000 kilometres (370,000 miles) long, a quarter of which covered international destinations. At this time, the carrier had agreements with 59 countries but it only served 54 of them, including 55 destinations.
[6] : 463
Once the world's largest
carrier ,
[7] : 1389 Aeroflot did not restrict its operations to the transportation of passengers, but
monopolised all civil aviation activities within the
Soviet Union . Apart from passenger transportation that covered a domestic network of over 3,600 villages, towns and cities, activities undertaken by the airline that were labelled as "non-transport tasks" included agricultural work, ice reconnaissance, anti-forest fire patrol, and aeromedical services, among many others.
[7] : 1389
[8] The former monopolistic Aeroflot – Soviet Airlines entered a new era following the
dissolution of the USSR , when it shrank dramatically as it was split into several regional companies throughout the
Commonwealth of Independent States in mid–1992 . It was gradually reorganised and renamed Aeroflot – Russian International Airlines (ARIA) .
[5] : 42 In mid-2000, the name of the company was changed to simply Aeroflot – Russian Airlines .
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At March 2000,
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport was the carrier's main base; the airport was also one of its
hubs , along with
Novosibirsk ,
Saint Petersburg and
Vladivostok , from where it operated scheduled international services to Accra,
Amman ,
Amsterdam ,
Ankara ,
Antalya ,
Athens , Baku,
Bangkok ,
Barcelona ,
Beijing ,
Beirut ,
Belgrade ,
Berlin ,
Bishkek ,
Bourgas ,
Bratislava , Brussels,
Bucharest ,
Budapest , Cairo,
Calcutta ,
Casablanca ,
Chicago , Colombo, Conakry,
Copenhagen ,
Cotonou ,
Dakar ,
Damascus , Delhi,
Dhaka ,
Dnipropetrovsk ,
Dubai ,
Dublin ,
Düsseldorf ,
Frankfurt ,
Geneva ,
Gothenburg ,
Hamburg ,
Hanoi ,
Hanover , Havana, Helsinki,
Ho Chi Minh City ,
Hong Kong ,
Istanbul ,
Jakarta , Karachi,
Karlovy Vary ,
Kathmandu ,
Kaunas ,
Kuala Lumpur ,
Kyiv ,
Lagos ,
Larnaca ,
Lima ,
Lisbon ,
Ljubljana , London,
Los Angeles ,
Luanda ,
Luleå ,
Luxembourg ,
Lyon ,
Madrid ,
Mahe Island ,
Male , Malta,
Manila ,
Mexico City ,
Miami ,
Milan ,
Montreal ,
Mumbai ,
Munich ,
Nagoya ,
New York ,
Nice ,
Niigata ,
Osaka ,
Oslo ,
Paphos , Paris,
Prague ,
Riga ,
Rome ,
Rovaniemi ,
Salzburg ,
San Francisco ,
São Paulo ,
Seattle ,
Seoul ,
Shanghai ,
Shannon ,
Sharjah ,
Shenyang ,
Simferopol , Singapore,
Skopje ,
Sofia , Stockholm,
Tbilisi ,
Tehran ,
Thessaloniki ,
Tivat ,
Tokyo ,
Toronto ,
Tripoli ,
Tromsø ,
Tunis ,
Ulaanbaatar ,
Varna ,
Venice ,
Vienna ,
Vilnius ,
Warsaw ,
Washington ,
Yerevan ,
Zagreb and
Zurich , and domestic flights to
Adler/Sochi ,
Anapa ,
Arkhangelsk ,
Belgorod ,
Bratsk ,
Ekaterinburg ,
Irkutsk ,
Kaliningrad ,
Khabarovsk ,
Krasnodar ,
Murmansk ,
Naryan-Mar ,
Nizhnevartovsk ,
Nizhniy Novgorod ,
Omsk ,
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , Rostov,
Samara ,
Volgograd and
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk .
[10]
List
Following is a list of destinations the carrier flies to, as of December 2023
[update] , according to its passenger and cargo schedules.
[11] Terminated destinations once served by Aeroflot within the post-1992 era are also included.
Notes and references
Notes
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"Aeroflot consolidates Beijing service at Daxing Airport from March 2020" . Routesonline . Retrieved 24 January 2020 .
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"Aeroflot Expands Vladivostok – Beijing Service From late-Dec 2023" . AeroRoutes . 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023 .
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"Aeroflot adds Chengdu service from late-July 2022" . AeroRoutes . 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022 .
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"Aeroflot Moves Chengdu Service Addition to June 2024" . AeroRoutes. 23 April 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2024 .
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"Aeroflot Moves Moscow – Chengdu Launch to July 2024" . AeroRoutes . 16 May 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024 .
^ Пронин, Евгений (21 September 2023).
" "Аэрофлот" полетит в Гонконг под Новый год" . Tourdom.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 21 September 2023 .
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"Aeroflot Adds Irkutsk – Harbin Service From July 2023" . AeroRoutes . No. 28 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023 .
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"News for Airlines, Airports and the Aviation Industry | CAPA" . centreforaviation.com . CAPA - Centre for Aviation. 11 December 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023 .
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"Aeroflot Doubles Moscow – Sanya Flights in 1Q24" . AeroRoutes . 18 January 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2024 .
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"Croatia closes airspace to Russian aircraft" . N1 . 28 February 2022.
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"Aeroflot Resumes Havana Service From late-Dec 2023" . AeroRoutes . 14 August 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023 .
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"Updated: All the European countries affected by Ukraine travel bans and sanctions so far" . Euronews . 28 February 2022.
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"AEROFLOT W12 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 10JUN12" . Airline Route . 10 June 2012. Archived from
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"Company News - Aeroflot launches summer timetable" . Aeroflot.ru . Aeroflot. Archived from
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"Aeroflot Adds Various Hurghada / Sharm el Sheikh Routes From mid-June 2024" . AeroRoutes . Retrieved 20 June 2024 .
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"AEROFLOT Resumes Lyon Service from June 2016" . airlineroute. Retrieved 29 February 2016 .
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"Aeroflot adds 2 European routes in S19" . Routesonline . Retrieved 7 December 2018 .
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"Russia's Aeroflot adds Paris Orly from 1Q20" . Ch-Aviation. 12 March 2019.
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"Aeroflot resumes scheduled flights to Georgia" .
Air Transport World . Archived from
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"Russia suspends Georgia flights amid unrest" . BBC. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019 .
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"Aeroflot files Berlin Bradenburg schedule from late-Oct 2020" . Routesonline. 30 December 2019.
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"Aeroflot Turns to Winter Schedule" (Press release). Aeroflot. 17 October 2014. Archived from
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"Aeroflot adds A350 Delhi service from July 2020" . Routesonline . Retrieved 25 June 2019 .
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"Aeroflot to launch services to Goa Mopa from Oct-2023" . CAPA . Retrieved 8 February 2023 .
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"«Аэрофлот» открыл продажи билетов в Гоа из Москвы и Екатеринбурга" . Tourdom.ru (in Russian). Профессиональный портал TourDom.ru — проект ООО «Служба Банко». Retrieved 6 July 2024 .
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"Aeroflot will operate flights to Goa's new airport from Moscow and Yekaterinburg" .
Aeroflot . 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023 .
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"Aeroflot resumes Mainline Denpasar service in NW20" . Routesonline.com. 30 December 2019.
^ Murphy, David (27 February 2022).
"Government to shut Irish airspace to Russian carriers" .
RTÉ.ie . Retrieved 27 February 2022 .
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"Aeroflot resumes 3 European routes in W18" . Routesonline.com . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
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"New $470m Ramon Airport handles first domestic flights" . trbusiness.com. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019 .
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" "АЭРОФЛОТ" ОТКРЫВАЕТ РЕЙС МОСКВА - БОЛОНЬЯ" . АвиаПорт.Ru . 26 July 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2012 .
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"Aeroflot adds seasonal Rimini service from July 2020" . Routesonline . Retrieved 21 February 2020 .
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"Aeroflot resumes Tokyo Haneda service from late-March 2020" . Routesonline . Retrieved 29 November 2019 .
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"Aeroflot adds A330-300 Almaty service in W18" . Routesonline . Retrieved 13 November 2018 .
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"AEROFLOT Plans to Add Tbilisi and Karaganda Service from March 2014" . Airline Route. 9 September 2013. Archived from
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"Airline Routes-July 23, 2018" .
Air Transport World . Archived from
the original on 26 July 2018. Aeroflot Airline launched Moscow Sheremetyevo-Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan) Airbus A320 and Sukhoi Superjet 100 4X-weekly services.
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"Aeroflot adds Osh service from Oct 2018" . Routesonline . Retrieved 4 July 2018 .
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"Aeroflot Resumes Mauritius Service From Dec 2023" . AeroRoutes . 14 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023 .
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"Aeroflot a suspendat zborurile de la Moscova și Sankt Petersburg spre Chișinău" .
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"Aeroflot re-introduces widebody aircraft service to Ulan Baatar in S19" . Routes. Archived from
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" "Аэрофлот" выполнил первый рейс в Катар по заказу туроператора" [Aeroflot Operates First Flight to Qatar Commissioned by Tour Operator]. Tourdom.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 30 April 2024 .
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"Now boarding: small-size flights bound for Arkhangelsk backup airport Vaskovo" . The Independent Barents Observer . Retrieved 22 November 2023 .
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"Aeroflot Adds Moscow – Blagoveschensk Service in 1Q24" . AeroRoutes . 6 December 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2023 .
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"AEROFLOT Mainline Adds Moscow – Chita / Ulan-Ude Service in W13" . Airline Route . 18 July 2013. Archived from
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"Таблица маршрутов" . Aeroflot.ru . Archived from
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"Aeroflot opens regular flights from Moscow to Elista" . Aeroflot. Retrieved 19 May 2024 .
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"AEROFLOT Resumes Mowcow - Magadan Nonstop Operation in W15" . Airlineroute.net. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015 .
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"Rossiya Airlines W18 Moscow service changes" . Routesonline . Retrieved 31 August 2018 .
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"Аэрофлот открывает рейсы в города Северного Кавказа: Грозный, Махачкалу, Владикавказ, Назрань и Нальчик" . Aeroflot.ru . Archived from
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the original on 6 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012 . Aeroflot will suspend its Moscow Sheremetyevo-Norilsk service on Jan. 20.
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"Aeroflot resumes 3 domestic routes from June 2020" . Routesonline . Retrieved 14 April 2020 .
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"Аэропорт Платов разрешили ввести в эксплуатацию с ноября" . ato.ru . 9 November 2017.
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"Аэрофлот открыл продажу билетов на прямые рейсы из Москвы в Ярославль" . Aeroflot.ru . Archived from
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Air Transport World . 31 March 2009.
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"Aeroflot Adds Seychelles Service From Oct 2022" . AeroRoutes . Retrieved 18 August 2022 .
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"Aeroflot Resumes Seychelles Service From Oct 2024" . AeroRoutes . Retrieved 4 July 2024 .
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"Aeroflot revises planned long-haul additions in 2020/21" . Routesonline.com . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
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"Aeroflot closes Singapore bookings in NW20" . Routesonline.com . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
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"Airline Routes-Sept. 24, 2018" .
Air Transport World .
Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018 . Aeroflot Airline will launch 5X-weekly Moscow Sheremetyevo-Colombo (Sri Lanka) A330 service; daily Moscow Sheremetyevo-Gothenburg (Sweden) Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) service; and daily Moscow Sheremetyevo -Ljubljana (Slovenia) SSJ100 service on Oct. 29.
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"AEROFLOT Adds Alicante Service from June 2016" . airlineroute.net. Retrieved 26 February 2016 .
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"Airline Routes-Jan. 14, 2019" .
Air Transport World . Archived from
the original on 19 January 2019. Aeroflot Airline will start 4X-weekly Moscow Sheremetyevo-Palma de Mallorca Airbus A320 service from June 1.
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"Аэрофлот начинает полеты на Тенерифе" . Новости . Aeroflot. Archived from
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"Aeroflot Moves Colombo Service to Rossiya From late-Dec 2023" . AeroRoutes . 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023 .
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"Aeroflot resumes 3 European routes in W18" . Routesonline.com . Retrieved 17 January 2022 .
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"Donavia Timetable (Effective 31 March 2013 (2013-03-31 ) –26 October 2013 (2013-10-26 ) )" . Donavia. 17 June 2013. Archived from
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"Aeroflot Expands Phuket Network in NW23" . AeroRoutes . 6 October 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2023 .
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"Aeroflot NS24 Phuket A330 Service Expansion" . AeroRoutes . 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024 .
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"Attention passengers flying to / from Istanbul" . aeroflot.ru . 26 March 2019.
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"Notice for passengers" . Archived from
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"Aeroflot resumes Abu Dhabi service from late-Oct 2023" . Aereoroutes . 20 July 2023.
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" "Аэрофлот" сокращает полетную программу в Дубай" . Tourdom.ru (in Russian). 15 December 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2023 .
^ Liu, Jim (15 January 2018).
"Aeroflot S18 London service changes" . Routesonline . Retrieved 15 January 2018 .
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"The full list of new UK sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, from oligarchs to sovereign debt" . inews.co.uk . 24 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022 .
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"AEROFLOT Expands Uzbekistan Service Jan – Mar 2015" . Airline Route. Retrieved 10 December 2014 .
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"Aeroflot Resumes Moscow – Urgench Service From Dec 2023" . AeroRoutes . 10 November 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023 .
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"Aeroflot Moves Ho Chi Minh City Service Resumption to 1Q24" . AeroRoutes . 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023 .
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"Aeroflot Schedules A350 Vietnam Service in 1Q24" . AeroRoutes . 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024 .
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