Russia’s minister for industry and trade Victor Khristenko said that in the middle of 2011 Sukhoi expects to win approval for its Superjet 100 regional jet with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) of Russia won a firm order from Interjet of Mexico for 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional aircraft. It comes with an option for five.

Past month Moscow Domodedovo airport served 17,789 flights, 13.4% more than in December 2009. The number of passengers carried on these flights came to 1,615,017, which is 9% above the figure for same month a year ago.

Domodedovo registered 22,253,529 passengers last year, 19.2% more than previous year. This is all-time record for the Moscow airport laid down in the mid-sixties.

Aeroflot, Transaero, S7 (Sibir), UTair and GTK Rossiya are the top five players in the Russian airline market according to the recent statistics for the past year. Their share in the total air traffic of the Russian air transportation system is estimated at 52.9%.

Air traffic generated by Russian airlines rose by 31.3% in the first 11 months of 2010 as compared to same period previous year, - according to the local Association of Tourists Operators which made its own calculations.

Solvent demand of Russian airports in anti-icing substances shall be completely met by the local manufacturers using local components only, said minister for transportation Igor Levitin. Russia shall drop its dependence on supply of foreign made components for these substances, he added.