Russia’s Homegrown Flight Operations Code
Aeroflot has introduced a Unified Operations Platform built on Russian software from Ops Dynamics. This is more than a routine software upgrade – it is a significant step toward strengthening the resilience of Russia’s entire civil aviation sector.
The deployment of Ops Dynamics, developed by Centurion-Innovations, is far more than a standard replacement for foreign software. The platform manages key stages of flight operations, from building seasonal schedules and coordinating airport slots to managing individual flights in real time. It brings previously disconnected processes into a single information environment, making any change at one stage immediately visible to all departments involved. The aim is to speed up decision-making and reduce duplicated work.
A module is scheduled to go live in late October. It will automatically rebook connecting passengers who miss their onward flights because of a disruption.
The project’s significance extends well beyond internal efficiency. The new platform directly affects core operating processes at Russia’s largest airline, marking a shift from replacing individual foreign products to building integrated platforms for the aviation industry.
Expanding the Possibilities
The industry’s current objective is to establish an almost entirely domestic software environment for managing the operations of major airlines. Aeroflot has already made substantial progress: it replaced the US-developed Sabre reservation system with Russia’s Leonardo platform, introduced a domestic electronic pilot flight bag, adopted a homegrown ACARS aviation communications service, and continues to work on other areas. The scale of the effort is significant: four high-priority import-substitution projects, with a combined value of 10.75 billion rubles (about $128 million), are being carried out through the Aviation Transport Industrial Competence Center.
Export prospects call for a measured assessment. Some Russian aviation IT products are already used abroad. For example, by 2024, the Aviation Service Platform had been adopted by aviation companies in 12 countries. However, according to official information, Ops Dynamics has not yet been supplied to foreign markets.
A Look Back at the Last Five Years
The replacement of imported software across Russian aviation has proceeded gradually but steadily.
In 2021, Rossiya Airlines, part of the Aeroflot Group, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with 1C, marking the start of its digital transformation using Russian solutions.
In 2022, Aeroflot completed its transition from the US-developed Sabre reservation system to Russia’s Leonardo platform, one of the largest import-substitution projects involving critical aviation software.
In 2023, Aeroflot announced that it would replace its SAP enterprise software with a solution built on the 1C platform, expanding its focus from customer-facing services to enterprise resource management.
In 2024, the Electronic Pilot Flight Bag entered trial operation, providing flight crews with the documentation they need for flight operations.
In 2025, Aeroflot connected to a domestic digital aviation communications system based on ACARS and replaced Sabre Intelligence Exchange, its analytics platform, with an in-house solution built on Platform V.
Then, in 2026, Ops Dynamics entered the picture. For the first time, a solution covered the end-to-end operational cycle of a flight, bringing previously separate functions together in a single system.
The Way Forward
The launch of Ops Dynamics should be seen not as an isolated event, but as the next logical stage in Aeroflot’s years-long overhaul of its IT infrastructure. Four years ago, the main priority was to replace foreign solutions that had become unavailable. Today, the focus is shifting toward integrated platforms that connect related business processes. The growing share of Aeroflot’s spending allocated to domestic software, rising from 33% in 2022 to 94.8% in 2024, underscores the durability of this trend.
In the near term, Ops Dynamics can be expected to gain new features, incorporate additional processes, and build up an operational track record at Russia’s largest airline. The next step could be to roll out similar solutions at other Russian carriers.
The launch of the new Russian platform signals that import substitution in aviation has reached one of its most demanding levels: the management of core airline operations and flight execution, where the cost of an error is especially high and reliability requirements are at their most stringent.
