OREANDA-NEWS. October 13, 2009. Aircraft IL-96-400 Т of “Flight” airline arrived to the Moscow international airport "Domodedovo" for performance of the first commercial flight on a Domodedovo-Yakutsk route. The first flight will take place on September, 27th, 2009.

This event is of great importance, both for “Flight” airline, and for Domodedovo and for all aviation branch of the country as a whole.

"Flight" airline is a unique operator of IL-96-400Т, new Russian long haul cargo plane. In August, 2009 IL-96-400T of “Flight” airline has made demonstration flight on the international aviation salon MAKS-2009. Experts of “Flight” airline carried on negotiations with representatives of the loading and aeroport equipment manufacturers, and also with potential customers on cargoes transportation on planned routes of regular transportations network on IL-96-400Т.

IL-96-400Т will be used as a part of the charter and regular program for freight traffic on internal air-lines. The first flight of Domodedovo-Yakutsk is carried out under this program. Moscow international airport Domodedovo – the leader in internal airline traffic segment of Russia and the constant partner of “ Flight” airline has been chosen as the start airport of the first flight of airline.

Thanks to development of this program many Russian airports receive the considerable amount of work. Work under the admission to receive IL-96-400Т of “ Flight” airline with following airports is spent: Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Anadyr, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Abakan, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Samara, Bratsk.

Interest of partners and new clients was an indicator of that this class of ship is in real demand in the market of regular transportations and its operation by airline is actual in the conditions of modern aviation business.

Uniqueness of IL-96-400Т project is that its successful realization during the uneasy economic period not only provides factories-manufacturers and the airports of service IL-96-400Т with stable work, but also illustrates high competitiveness of Russia on the international aviation arena.