Rossiya suspends An-148 ops over "low cost-effectiveness"...

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...and perhaps the "Aircraft On Ground-service" from Ukrainian manufacturere Antonov is these days also not what it used to be. Well, at least in Russia...

Rossiya (FV, St. Petersburg) has temporarily withdrawn its fleet of six An-148-100s from revenue service with the type's last commercial flight performed by RA-61705 (msn 27015040005) on the morning of Thursday, April 9.

continues at
http://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/ ... operations

other operators of the Antonov Design Bureau twinjet include: 223rd Flight Unit (CHD, Moscow Chkalovsky), SLO Rossiya (RSD, Moscow Vnukovo), Angara Airlines (2G, Irkutsk), Air Koryo (JS, Pyongyang), Antonov Airlines (ADB, Gostomel), MCHS Rossii (SUM, Moscow Zhukovsky), and Ukraina Air Enterprise (UKN, Kiev Borispol) with outstanding orders for Berkut (BEC, Almaty) and Scat (DV, Shimkent).