Rossiya Airlines OJSC is one of the largest in the Russian Federation. It has existed since 1934 and was founded in the northern capital of the country, providing up to 40% of the traffic at the St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport. In 2011, Rossiya entered the Aeroflot Group of Companies, which allowed the airline to further increase the volume of passenger traffic.
Airline information
At the end of 2011, Aeroflot was able to transport about 20 million people, which is about 30% of the total passenger traffic in Russia. The share of Rossiya Airlines in this volume is about 20%.
Except "Aeroflot", the airline owner is also the government of St. Petersburg.
At present, Rossiya's fleet includes 34 airliners, the majority of which are Russian-Ukrainian aircraft AN-148-100V. The airline operates not only passenger transportation, but also commercial flights, which involve such aircraft as Airbus A319, Airbus A320, Boeing 767-300.
Rossiya Airlines has a certificate of compliance with international flight safety standards - IATA Operational Safety Audit. She has also passed ISO 9001: 2008 certification.
Which countries and cities do Rossiya Airlines fly to?
The company, which is part of the Aeroflot Group of Companies, connects such Russian cities as St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Gelendzhik, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Sochi, Tyumen, Ufa and Chelyabinsk. That is, to almost all major cities in the country.
Aircraft fly in three major Moscow airports - Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo.
With the help of the services of "Russia" you can get to European cities - Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Geneva, Salzburg, Karlovy Vary, Copenhagen, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Nice, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Riga, Rome, Sofia, Istanbul, Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki, Zurich, Frankfruit am Main and other capitals with major cities in the world.
The pilots of Rossiya Airlines also fly to countries and cities popular for Russian tourists - Sharm el-Sheikh, Antalya and Hurghada.
When drawing up the flight map, the cities of the former USSR were also taken into account - Almaty, Astana, Baku, Bishkek, Bukhara, Dushanbe, Yerevan, Kiev, Odessa, Pavlodar, Samarkand, Simferopol, Tashkent, Karaganda and others.
The Rossiya company also flies to Asia - Seoul and Beijing. But, as the air traveler himself notes, this direction has not yet been developed as strongly as the others. However, in the future, the airline's management promises to correct this omission and develop its presence in the eastern countries, which are of increasing interest to Russian tourists and businessmen every year.
