RBC: Russia’s largest cargo airline AirBridgeCargo will resume flights after a year of inactivity
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Cargo airline AirBridgeCargo (part of Volga-Dnepr) is going to resume flights on Il-96 aircraft. This was reported RBC with reference to sources.
Recently, photos of the first Il-96-400T in AirBridgeCargo coloring were published on Telegram channels, while the aircraft was not equipped with engines and a stabilizer. According to RBC, earlier this aircraft was owned by the Voronezh airline Polet, which went bankrupt in 2016. According to sources of the publication, Volga-Dnepr plans to receive another Il-96-400T, which previously belonged to Polet.
According to RBC, Volga-Dnepr also began looking for specialists to work on the Il-96-400T in Moscow and Ulyanovsk. Jobs posted in mid-March.
AirBridgeCargo has 17 Boeing 747s and one Boeing 777 in its fleet. The company has not used Russian aircraft before. In March 2023, AirBridgeCargo suspended flights after the West imposed sanctions against the Russian aviation industry. By information RBC, in August the company also planned to cut 200 Boeing pilots. Prior to the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the airline accounted for 42% of the air cargo market.
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