The carrier spokesmen argue, however, that the situation is slowly stabilizing. “Until now, 93 percent of flights from Moscow and back from the original schedule (216 of 233). Until 10:00, the company carried out deliberate flights, after which the aerofłot flight distribution stabilized,” assured the press office of lines, cited by “Rzeczpospolita”.
The day before, the Aerofłot was forced to cancel 108 flights to Szeremietiev, and more than 100 others were delayed by many hours. Both national and international connections have suffered – including to Astana, Minsk and Yerevan. In many cases, passengers were redirected to other lines belonging to the Aerofłot group, such as Pabada or Rossija.
Russia reacts, hackers reveal the backstage of the attack
The Russian Ministry of Transport ensures that actions have been taken to “normalize flight situations”. Flights to the Far East, to Königsberg, Sochi, mineral waters and abroad are to be a priority. The Kremlin, in turn, warns that “in the case of subsequent forced references” may be limited by the number of flights on routes also served by other carriers, writes “Rzeczpospolita”.
The Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans by cybernetic attack. According to their declarations, they persisted for a year in the corporate network of aerofłot, downloading 22 terabytes of data and destroying up to 7,000. servers. The carrier did not refer to these reports.
Roskomnadzor, a Russian telecommunications regulator, claims that so far “has not found confirmation of Aerofłot customers announced by hackers.” At the same time, he announces that further decisions, including possible control of the company, will be taken after analyzing the report from the carrier itself.
As Rzeczpospolita writes, Preliminary estimates say that only in one day Aerofłot could lose at least 250 million rubles (about PLN 11.2 million). The average price of a one -way ticket at the level of 20,000 was adopted here. rubles. Other sources indicate that real losses – taking into account the restoration of IT systems, lost revenues and stock exchange value – can reach up to several billion rubles. On Tuesday, the company's quotations on the Moscow stock exchange fell by 4 percent.
