Hoping its a Tupolev - Balkan Holidays promised me it would be! The TU-154 has been around for donkeys years but the versions used nowadays are usually the later models. About 1,000 of them were built and they are in use throughtout the CIS countries on a daily basis. Soviet jets are built for rougher and smaller airfields than Western aircraft and so are built like tanks. Also, the TU-154 is very powerful for its size and so you really have nothing to worry about.