Aeroflot Fires Deputy CEO Smirnov After Storm Delays

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

OAO Aeroflot, Russia’s biggest airline, fired Deputy Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Smirnov after winter storms stranded 20,000 people at Moscow airports.

Smirnov was dismissed for “failures that provoked disruption of the company’s work between Dec. 26 and Dec. 29,” Moscow-based Aeroflot said today in an e-mailed statement.