Nevertheless, Aeroflot during one period grew into what was considered by the World Almanac as the world's largest airline company, with flights mainly concentrating around the Soviet Union but also with a international network that included such countries as England, Spain, Cuba and China.
During the 1970s and 1980s, and as a cause of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had problems keeping an adequate technological aviation program. This reflected in a few Aeroflot accidents at the time, and it still keeps reflecting as new Eastern Bloc airlines keep buying old Russian equipment and suffering tragedies.
Aeroflot foresaw the need to buy new and more modern equipment, and upon the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991, it inmediately started buying Western equipment, starting with Airbus aircraft.
In 1992, Aeroflot became an open joint stock company, and in 1994, it entered the United States market, with flights to New York[?]'s JFK International Airport and San Francisco, California. Aeroflot also became a Boeing customer, adding new, just out of the plant Boeing 767 jet planes. After this makeover, Aeroflot's safe flights rate is currently 99.94 percent.
Company web Site http://www.aeroflot.com/
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