OREANDA-NEWS. Transaero Airlines celebrates its 20-th anniversary of scheduled services to St Petersburg. Transaero carried more than 2 million passengers on the Moscow-St Petersburg route over two decades. The overall passenger traffic on all routes served by Transaero from St Petersburg was about 6 million passengers.

St Petersburg is the city where the airline was registered in 2006. The airline's special flight department's division is based over there. Transaero has its flight attendants' unit in St Petersburg. The airline's St Petersburg MRO station carries out servicing of the Boeing 737 aircraft. St Petersburg's training center of Transaero Airlines has provided trainings for thousands of the airline's specialists.

Today St Petersburg is one of the major destinations served by the airline. Flights between Moscow and St Petersburg are operated 42 times per week. Furthermore, passengers are offered an option to choose from full service flights from Moscow Vnukovo airport or flights from Moscow Domodedovo airport with Discount service at the most affordable fares.

The airline has worked out and gradually implements the Programme aimed at increasing passenger traffic via Pulkovo airport. In the 2015 summer operation season Transaero's route network from St Petersburg includes 23 routes.

This summer season the residents of Russia's northern capital can take advantage of Transaero's direct flights to Beijing and Shanghai.  Transaero has also expanded its services to Russia's Far East. The airline has recently launched new service to Magadan.

The first flight carried out by the airline 20 years ago gave the start to the long-term fruitful and permanently strengthening cooperation between the airline and Pulkovo international airport. Since 2011 Transaero has been developing strategic partnership with Northern Capital Gateway, the managing company of Pulkovo Airport.

On the occasion of the 20-th anniversary of the airline's flights on the Moscow-St Petersburg route, Transaero Airlines congratulates all the passengers of its Petersburg's flights and wishes them sound health, happiness and success.