AEROFLOT is not only an airline, but also a general administration of civil aviation. It also governs air emergency medical treatment, air exploration, agricultural services, helicopter services and airport management. In remote areas, helicopter service is like taking a bus, and it is common for students to go to school by helicopter. In the heyday of Soviet aviation, domestic destinations covered more than 3,000 towns, international destinations exceeded 100, with a fleet of tens of thousands of people, carrying more passengers than domestic routes in the United States.
199 1 After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, 29 branches of civil aviation in the former Soviet Union gradually disintegrated into new airlines. After the disintegration, it was renamed AEROFLOT-Russian International, and only the international airline business was retained, and the domestic market share immediately fell below 20%.
10 In March 1994, an A3 10 plane of Aeroflot crashed, and the operating conditions of Aeroflot fell into a trough. In the next few months, the government began to reform Aeroflot into a state-controlled joint-stock company. Launched a series of modernization measures, Aeroflot introduced Boeing series passenger planes one after another, and then Airbus A320 series passenger planes, and its long-range fleet was mainly Boeing 767.
AEROFLOT-DON was established in 2000, and Arkhangelsk Airlines was acquired in 2005 and renamed AEROFLOT-NORD. Aeroflot re-established its domestic routes, and its share in the domestic market gradually increased. In 2005, Aeroflot's routes covered more than 80 destination cities in more than 50 countries. In 2007, Aeroflot officially became a member of SkyTeam, an aviation alliance.
In 2008, Aeroflot celebrated its 85th anniversary (the history can be traced back to Aeroflot-Soviet Airlines, which was founded in 1923).