News / It never rains – now Polet sees its freight traffic plummet as the legal battles bite

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Polet Airlines saw freight traffic fall 82.7% between January and August this year, according to Russian aviation documents.

Cargo volumes dipped from 79,000 tons to 13,760 – a fall in no small part due to the continued legal dispute with Ilyushin Finance Company and Sberbank Leasing over Polet’s two AN-124s.

At the start of September, a court maintained a previous decision that one AN-124 should be returned to a British Virgin Islands-registered company, Tehnolizingsteyt, said to be close to businessman Alexander Lebedev.

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