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.
Russian airlines carried 5.1 million passengers in February, up 0.2% year-over-year (YOY), slowly reversing a downward trend, according to Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia.
Russia’s Aeroflot has gained RUB1.2 billion ($16.4 million) in revenue for contracted cargo space in the bellies of its passenger aircraft for its 2016 summer schedule, which started on March 1.
