OREANDA-NEWS. Transaero successfully implements its 2007 summer schedule. The airline serves 76 routes - 49 scheduled and 27 charter, - which is by 30% more than in summer 2006. The number of scheduled flights grew by 40%, and charter - by 12% as the airlines focuses primarily on the development of its scheduled routes network.

The frequency of Transaero domestic flights grew by 20%. The airline opened two new domestic routes: Moscow - Sochi and Moscow - Khabarovsk. The airline also performs flights from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, Anadyr, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Petropavlovsk - Kamchatskiy and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The frequency of Transaero flights connecting Russia and the CIS countries grew by more than 10%, first of all due to additional flights on Moscow - Astana route (6 flights per week) and Moscow - Almaty (14 flights per week). The airline also performs flights to Kazakhstan (Astana, Almaty, Aktau, Atyrau, Karaganda, Uralsk, Chimkent), Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa, Simferopol), and Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Bukhara).

The frequency of flights on scheduled routes to destinations in Europe grew by more than two times. The airline serves flights from Moscow to UK (London), Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt), Spain (Alicante, Barcelona, Gerona, Tenerife), France (Strasburg), Austria (Vienna), Luxemburg, the Czech Republic (Pardubice), Cyprus (Pafos). Flights to Alicante and Gerona are new additions to the airlines’ scheduled route network.

In Asia Transaero performs scheduled flights to Thailand (to Bangkok from Moscow and Saint Petersburg and Phuket from Moscow), China (Sanya and Guangzhou from Moscow, Shanghai and Sanya from Saint Petersburg), India (Amritsar), Maldives (Male), and Singapore. In the Middle East Transaero serves scheduled routes to Israel (Tel Aviv) and Egypt (Hurghada, Sharm-el-Sheikh), in Americas - to Canada (Montreal, Toronto) and the Dominican Republic (Punta Cana).

Transaero also has a diverse and extensive charter route network. It performs flights from Moscow to Bulgaria (Burgas, Varna), Greece (Araksos, Iraklion, Kerkira, Kos, Rodos, Santorini, Hania), Spain (Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza), Italy (Genoa, Catania, Naples, Palermo, Treviso), Cyprus (Larnaca), UAE (Dubai), Portugal (Faro), Turkey (Antalia), Tunisia (Monastir), Croatia (Dubrovnik, Pula). The flights from Saint Petersburg to Greece (Araksos, Iraklion and Rodos) and Spain (Barcelona) were introduced in summer schedule for the first time this year.

An important feature of Transaero summer schedule is a unique offer which gains increasing popularity with passengers who appreciate comfort. It is a new exquisite cabin located on the upper deck of the largest airplanes operated by Transaero - Boeing 747. The standards of service in the new cabin are very close to those of the first class. The cabin has only 12 ergonomic design seats. The passengers who booked tickets to the new cabin have access to VIP and Business Lounges and on certain routes the free luggage allowance for such passengers was increased to 50 kg. This service class (P-class) is offered both on scheduled and charter Transaero flights from Moscow to Antalia, Barcelona, Burgas, Varna, Dubrovnik, Pula, Tenerife, Tunis, and Hurghada. The high quality of services makes travel in Transaero P-class class particularly enjoyable for our passengers.

We have also expanded the list of Internet services offered by Transaero. Transaero was the first Russian airline to offer e-tickets in March 2007. Today e-tickets become more and more popular with passengers – one third of all tickets sold by Transaero via the Internet are e-tickets. Starting from May 2007 passengers can also check in to a number of flights via with the Internet.

The successful implementation of the summer schedule gives every reason to believe that Transaero will further strengthen its positions in the market. Today Transaero Airlines is the second largest Russian airline in Russia in terms of passenger flow and the second largest international carrier in the Russian Federation.