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. She has previously worked for Russky Telegraf 1997-1998, Russia Journal 1999-2000, the Vremya Novostei newspaper 2000-2001, the Russky Focus business weekly 2001-2004 and the Kompania business weekly in 2004-2005.
Starting as a journalist for Air Transport Observer Magazine in 2005, she had become deputy editor by the time she left in 2014, moving to Germany.
She has also written and edited a number of surveys and editorial on airline, aircraft and travel issues for a number of Russian and international publications.
She lives with her husband, twins, and a dog and cat in Cyprus.
Russia’s Ministry of Transport has initiated legislation changes allowing passengers to use paperless boarding passes, taking away the contradiction that exists in current government regulations.
Russia’s air traffic fell 10.2% in August to 10.3 million passengers, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia. International traffic was down 25.6% year-over-year (YOY) to 3.7 million, while domestic traffic grew 1.5% YOY to 6.6 million.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to toughen the rules against airline “troublemakers” at a meeting with Aeroflot Airline CEO Vitaly Savelyev.
