Rossiya (FV, St. Petersburg) has temporarily withdrawn its fleet of six An-148-100s from revenue service with the type's last commercial flight performed by RA-61705 (msn 27015040005) on the morning of Thursday, April 9.

The Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo) subsidiary told Russia's ATO that the decision was made on a purely commercial basis noting that the aircraft's cost-effectiveness was "lower than other types currently in operation in its fleet."

The aircraft, on lease from the Ilyushin Finance Co., were used on flights to Arkhangelsk Talagi, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Murmansk, Perm Bolshoye Savino, Samara Kurumoch, and Surgut in Russia as well as to Berlin Schönefeld and Hamburg Helmut Schmidt in Germany, Minsk National in Belarus, and Vienna in Austria.

According to the ch-aviation aircraft database, other operators of the Antonov Design Bureau twinjet include: 223rd Flight Unit (CHD, Moscow Chkalovsky), SLO Rossiya (RSD, Moscow Vnukovo), Angara Airlines (AGU, Irkutsk International), Air Koryo (JS, Pyongyang), Antonov Airlines (ADB, Gostomel), MCHS Rossii (SUM, Zhukovsky), and Ukraina Air Enterprise (UKN, Kyiv Boryspil) with outstanding orders for Berkut (BEC, Almaty International) and SCAT Airlines (DV, Shymkent).