Since yearly 90s Boeing’s got a pretty strong foothold in Russia. And it is getting only stronger. Not even to mention a recent news of Aeroflot announced it wants to buy a bunch of 787s from Boeing.
And it is not only the flag carrier that is looking for the Boeing product. (In fact, with regard to the Dreamliner, Aeroflot was not the first one who finalized its future fleet consideration by electing 787s. S7, a second largest carrier in Russia, was ahead of Aeroflot striking a deal with Boeing)
Whenever I get a chance to browse through aviation magazines, or communicate with my buddies back there, I can’t help but get surprised about how more and more companies in the modern Russia never regarded as even ’second-tier players’ in the air transport industry are getting second-hand Boeing planes for their operation ‘just like that’ - snap your fingers 
But as we see, members of ‘upper league’ are expanding their look far ahead and above the second hand aircraft market. Their eyes are falling on the brand new Boeing product.
All these images but one were taken during the last year’s 23rd International Air Cargo Forum and Exposition that was taking place in Calgary where Russians were present too.
And they even had one Canadian aka ‘Russian’ Pictured here is Stan Wraight, Managing Director of the ‘Air Bridge Cargo’, a subsidiary that was started up recently by Volga-Dnepr, the company that is well known over the world as an operator of the Antonov-124 aircraft.
Air Bridge Cargo flies Boeing-747 freighters on schedule. They started from two, then three ‘pre-owned’ 747 ‘Classics’,
but now they are getting brand new 747-400s, and I believe the first group of company’s crews already seats at transitioning course in Seattle.
Moreover, Stan said the company would be looking for even more exciting future once it gets the proposed Boeing-747-8F.
No doubt the company will be among the first operators of the new version of venerable ‘Jumbo’.
(to be continued..)
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