AEROFLOT tentatively set IL96/Tu154 retirement
As per Sabre timetable display on 02FEB09, AEROFLOT apparently has set the timetable to phase out Ilyushin IL96 and Tupolev Tu154 aircraft from scheduled service.
Last IL96 service is currently scheduled on 24OCT09. Most of Tupolev Tu154 last service is also ser for 24OCT09. Starting 25OCT09 (see exception when noted):
IL96 service on the following routes to be replaced by 767-300ER
Moscow – Delhi
Moscow – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Moscow – Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
IL96 service on the following routes to be replaced by A330
Moscow – Bangkok
Tu154 on the following routes to be replaced by A320
Moscow – Anapa
Moscow – Krasnodar
Moscow – Mineralnye Vody
Moscow – Norilsk (A319)
Moscow – Perm SU823/824, EFF 01DEC09 (SU821/822 already with 320)
Moscow – St. Petersburg (current service is mixed Tu154 and A319)
Moscow – Simferopol (Tu154 scheduled on Day 6 in Summer 09, to be replaced by A319)
Moscow – Ufa (Tu154 on SU891/892 to be replaced by A320, others are A320)
Note some other routes are being progressively replaced by Airbus or Boeing aircraft in Summer 09.
[...] AEROFLOT keeps Il96 pax service in W09/10 20091015 — jimyvr Per GDS timetable display on 15OCT09, AEROFLOT is to continue operating Ilyushin Il96 aircraft in the Winter 2009/10 season. Previously it was thought the airline will be retiring all Soviet-built jet on 24OCT09. [...]
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