Aeroflot Wallpapers

Aeroflot Airlines, Megawallpapers: Aeroflot � Russian Airlines (Russian:Аэрофло́т � Росси́йские авиали́нии), or Aeroflot (Аэрофло́т; literally "air fleet"), is the Russian national airline and is the biggest carrier in Russia. It was also the national airline of the Soviet Union and was once the largest airline in the world. It is based in Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia (with corporate headquarters located next to Aerostar Hotel, central Moscow). As of 2005, Aeroflot serves over 80 foreign destinations in almost 50 countries. In 1921, shortly after the end of the Russian civil war, the new government established the Chief Administration of the Civil Air Fleet to oversee budding air transport projects. One of its first acts was to help found Deutsch-Russiche Luftverkehrs (Deruluft), a joint German-Russian venture to provide air transport from Russia to the West. Domestic air service began around the same time, when Dobrolet was established on 9 February 1923. It started operations on 15 July 1923 between Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod. In 1932 all civil aviation activities were consolidated under the name of Grazhdanskiy Wozdushnyy Flot (Civil Air Fleet), known simply as Aeroflot. International flights started in 1937; before that date they had been carried out by Deruluft. By the end of the 1930s Aeroflot had become the world's largest airline. During the Soviet era Aeroflot was synonymous with Russian civil aviation. One of the rare examples of Soviet commercial advertisement was Aeroflot's slogan, "Fly on Aeroflot planes!" ("Летайте самолетами Аэрофлота!"). The irony was that Aeroflot had no competitors and it was virtually impossible for an average Soviet citizen to fly on a non-Aeroflot plane. The advertisement was intended to entice people into using Aeroflot instead of cheaper though much slower long-distance trains. In January 1971 the Aeroflot Central Administration of International Air Traffic was established within the framework of IATA, and became the industry's sole enterprise authorised to operate international flights. Abroad, the airline was known as Aeroflot Soviet Airlines. In 1976 Aeroflot carried more than 100 million passengers for the first time. Its flights were mainly concentrated around the Soviet Union, but the airline also had an international network covering five continents: North and South Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The network included countries such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Cuba, and People's Republic of China. Since the 1970s some transatlantic flights were flown using Shannon Airport in Ireland as a hub, as it was the westernmost non-NATO airport in Europe. Aeroflot also performed myriad other functions, it provided Aeromedical, crop-dusting, heavy lifting for the Soviet Space Agency (see Soviet Space Program), offshore oil platform support, exploration for natural resources, support for construction projects, transport of military troops and supplies (as an adjunct to the Soviet Air Force), atmospheric research, remote area patrol, but to name a few. It operated hundreds of helicopters and cargo aircraft in addition to civil airliners. It also operated the Soviet equivalent of Air Force One and other vip/vvip transports of government and communist party officials. Aeroflot joined IATA in 1989. At the start of the 1990s Aeroflot reorganised again giving more autonomy to territorial divisions. In 1992 it was divided into more than 300 regional airlines. International routes were operated separately as Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines (ARIA). Some airline companies which were created from the old Aeroflot are now flag carriers of the newly independent countries of the CIS � e.g., Uzbekistan Airways. Smaller regional airlines which emerged out of the old Aeroflot � sometimes just one-plane operations � were sometimes referred to as Babyflots. In 1994 Aeroflot was registered as a joint stock company and the government sold off 49% of its stake to Aeroflot employees. During the 1990s Aeroflot was primarily focused on international flights from Moscow. However, by the end of the decade Aeroflot started an expansion in the domestic market. In 2000 the company name was changed to Aeroflot' � Russian Airlines to reflect the change in the company's strategy. [br]The company used to be severely criticized for its bad service, especially in the first half of 1990s. Although service has improved since then, the hardest part was to train attendants to deliver it with a smile (smiling to strangers has been traditionally considered in Russian culture a sign of idiocy). In the mid-1990s the company even had an advertisement slogan: "We don't smile because we're serious about making you happy". [br]Fleet - The Aeroflot fleet consists of the following aircraft (at 25 October 2005): [br]5 Airbus A310 [br]10 Airbus A319-100 [br]8 Airbus A320-200 [br]6 Airbus A321-200 (7 more on order [1]) [br]2 Antonov An-24RV [br]15 Antonov An-24V [br]4 Antonov An-26A [br]1 Antonov An-32 [br]9 Boeing 767-300ER [br]7 Ilyushin Il-86 [br]6 Ilyushin Il-96-300 [br]4 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 [br]11 Tupolev Tu-134A [br]1 Tupolev Tu-134B [br]25 Tupolev Tu-154M [br]2 Yakovlev Yak-40 [br]30 Sukhoi Russian Regional Jet (on order). [br] [br] [br] [br] [br] [br]

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