Aeroflot hammers out new image on its birthday

[luchtzak]

Aeroflot, the national flag carrier of the former Soviet Union, will celebrate its 80th birthday this year by dropping the hammer and sickle from its logo more than a decade after the fall of communism.
The airline is one of the last Russian institutions to have kept the Soviet emblem. Aeroflot, which earned an infamous safety record in the Nineties, is rebranding as part of a broader strategy to shed the airline’s rust-bucket image.
In 1994 the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus 310 allowed his 15-year-old son to take the controls over Siberia: he sent the aircraft into a 500mph dive, killing all 75 on board.