OREANDA-NEWS. December 13, 2012. The first airplane of Russian Post departed from Moscow Domodedovo airport. During the flight departure Nikolay Nikiforov, the Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation, Oleg Duhovnitsky, the Head of the Federal Agency of Communications and Alexandr Kiselev, the Chief Executive Officer of Russian Post were present.

The deputy director of airport Boris Shahsuvarov said on the following press-conference: “Post transportation is an ordinary operation for Domodedovo airport. But this event is not really typical. Usually post is transported by freight or passenger carriers of airlines-partners, but today Russian Post starts forming its own aircraft fleet. We are glad that the aircraft is departing from Moscow Domodedovo airport, the largest one in Russia and devoting a great deal of attention to aviation development.”

From now the airplane will make flights in the Khabarovsk Territory, delivering post to the remote locations. A small size of L-410 makes it optimal for post transportation in the conditions of the region.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest airport of Russia in terms of passenger traffic. In 2011, total passenger traffic of the airport amounted to 25,7 million people which let Domodedovo become the first Russian airport to join the category of the largest airports in Europe on the classification of the Airports Council International (ACI). Domodedovo is the base airport in Russia for member airlines of two largest global airline alliances – oneworld and Star Alliance. According to the annual survey by the independent research company Skytrax Research (UK), Moscow Domodedovo Airport tops the list of the best airports in Eastern Europe in terms of the service quality.