Russia’s Aurora Airline operates first Boeing 737 to Iturup Island

Credit: Aurora Airline
Aeroflot subsidiary Aurora Airline operated its first Boeing 737-500 technical flight to the Kuril Iturup Island airport in Russia’s Far East to test the new runway with a narrowbody medium-haul aircraft. Aurora currently operates the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk-Iturup route with a 50-seat DHC-8-300 aircraft...
Polina Montag-Girmes

Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000.

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