Aeroflot OAO's Low-cost Air Carrier to Operate 15 Planes-Interfax

Interfax reported that Aeroflot OAO's low-cost carrier will be operating fifteen airliners, and setting up the Company will take half a year after the necessary amendments are made to Russia's Air Code and the country's aviation rules, company General Director Vitaly Savelyev told the press. The decision has been made in principle, but rules need to change, Savelyev said. It's possible that the Company will create the carrier in half a year after the amendments have been made," he said. Various options are being considered, he said. Either the carrier will be set up around an existing subsidiary airline or from scratch, he said. The issue of which airport the new air carrier will be operating out of is still being studied at this point, he said.