Transaero Airlines results for January – September 2011

Moscow, October 26, 2011 – Transaero Airlines announces its operational results for the first nine months of 2011. The company once again demonstrated the highest rates of growth among top-five Russian carriers.

For the period from January to September 2011:
· Passenger turnover reached 24.87 billion RPK, 29.2% higher than in the first nine months of 2010
· The total number of passengers carried amounted to 6,558,750 which is 29.5% more than in the same period previous year
· Transaero transported a total of 35,782 tons of cargo, 30.2% more than in the first nine months of 2010
· Ton-kilometers totaled 2.44 billion TKM, 29.1% more than in the same period previous year.
In September 2011:
· Revenue passenger-kilometers (RPK) totaled 3.394 billion, 33.6% more than in September 2010
· Passenger volume constituted 978,891 passengers, 36.3% more than in the same month last year.
Commenting on the January – September results Transaero Airlines General Director Olga Pleshakova said: «I’m delighted that Transaero has reached the record results for the first nine months in the year of its 20th anniversary. They indicate steady growth and stable development of the carrier’s business during the period. It’s quite important that figures increased on both international and domestic routes. We go on with implementing our development strategy that allows us to grow faster than the market does”.

About Transaero Airlines
Transaero Airlines is the second-largest passenger airline in Russia. Transaero launched its services in November, 1991. Transaero’s fleet consists of 71 aircraft, including twenty Boeing 747s, eight Boeing 777s, thirteen 767s, twenty seven 737s and three Tupolev 214s. Transaero has the largest long-haul fleet in Russia. It is the only commercial carrier flying Tupolev 214 and Boeing 747 passenger aircraft in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe. According to the German Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center (JACDEC), the company ranked in the top 10 safest carriers among the world’s 60 largest airlines. Transaero serves more than 130 routes in Russia, Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Transaero maintains scheduled flights from hubs in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where its head office is located, as well as from Yekaterinburg. Transaero was the first Russian full service airline to introduce e-ticketing in March 2007 and the first in the country to offer Internet check-in for its passengers.