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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 4:09 pm
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Reports of the death of the IL-62 are a great exaggeration. I saw one only a couple of weeks ago, belonging to Kras Air, make a typically elegant and stately takeoff from St Petersburg. The last ones completed were only shipped in 1996, and in fact the final airframes are apparently still left at the Kazan factory in an incomplete state. But there are plenty of them still with the "new" operators out of Moscow Domodedovo. Even the old Interflug ones have found good homes there. Here's the old DDR-SER of Interflug (built 1985), now with Russian charter operator Vim Airlines, seen this summer as far apart as Moscow, Dubai and Macau.

In addition to the flights from Moscow, after Perestroika Aeroflot started an IL-62 service from Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East, through Anchorage, to Seattle and Los Angeles. These flights only lasted a few years, like the quite extensive Aeroflot "mini-hub" that operated at this time at Miami, between Moscow and Latin America. In recent years Aeroflot have got a lot more commercial and have dumped many of the old politically-inspired routes. They still do 2 flights a week from Moscow to Havana, nonstop now with the Il-96.
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