Russia's Red Wings expands into the scheduled market with domestic base at Moscow Vnukovo

Russia's Red Wings is embarking on an expansion of its new scheduled operation with the announcement of six new domestic routes from Moscow Vnukovo Airport. The new routes, announced over the last month, will join the airline's initial scheduled route, Moscow Vnukovo-Kaliningrad, which was launched on 25-Jun-2012. Red Wings, which was founded in 1999, previously only operated leisure charter services on behalf of tour operators.

Red Wings is owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev who also owns 15% of Russian state carrier Aeroflot. Mr Lebedev is reportedly attempting to sell his Aeroflot stake to the Russian Government to raise funds for fleet expansion at Red Wings.