antonov-airlines

Antonov appoints UK sales team

Following the ending of the joint venture Ruslan International with Volga-Dnepr at the end of 2016, Antonov Airlines has appointed a UK-based team to lead the global sales activities for its fleet of AN-124-100s, AN-225 and AN-22 aircraft. Based at Antonov’s new offices in Stansted Airport’s Diamond Hangar, the sales team includes Paul Furlonger who has spent the past 26 years working with the carrier’s fleet, Graham Witton, who first began ... [+]

By heck, that’s a plane-and-a-half

Even Yorkshire folk were impressed when the An225, the world’s largest aircraft, visited Yorkshire's Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield on an operational cargo mission. Ukraine-based Antonov Airlines' unique AN-225 Mryia (Dream) landed to collect 150 tonnes of engineering equipment for a transatlantic flight. Fittingly for England's largest county, the An225, at 275 ... [+]

All-out effort

Ruslan International, which manages and markets the combined Antonov An-124 fleets of its shareholders Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Airlines has moved a 101-tonne oil platform component from Bergen (Norway) to Busan (Korea) on an An-124 flight. The load together with its two support frames and other loading equipment actually ... [+]

Keeping the peace in South Sudan

Ruslan International – the company which markets and manages the combined Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Airlines An-124 fleets – has completed a programme of 15 flights for the Japanese peace keeping contingent of the Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). The flights – each covering 13,000 km from Narita and Chitose ... [+]