Transaero Airlines

Moscow - Domodedovo

Transaero Airlines (Russian Трансаэро ) is a Russian airline based in Saint Petersburg and base at the airport Domodedovo. It is the second largest Russian airline Aeroflot after.

History

Transaero Airlines was founded in November 1991 as the first purely private Russian airline. The first route was Moscow - Tel Aviv served with a borrowed machine. As of 1992 a fleet was built, the company unlike other Russian vendors only models of Boeing einflottet since 1993.

In 1995, she flew as first foreign airline to the new Kazakh capital of Astana. Since 1996, Transaero also performs intercontinental long-haul flights.

For Director General of Transaero Olga Pleschakowa was appointed as the first woman in the history of Russia, which projects an airline in 2001. 2006, the company issued with a capitalization of 2.5 billion rubles on the Moscow Stock Exchange.

In autumn 2011, Transaero signed a letter of intent for the purchase of four Airbus A380 -800 and Boeing 747-8, the A380 were finally firmly ordered in January 2012.

Transaero has served by its own account since 1991 almost 150 airports in 56 countries. Advertising, the company operates primarily with their existing mostly of Western aircraft fleet and their board service. She was also the first Russian airline with a frequent flyer program and its own airport lounges for example.

Destinations

Transaero maintains scheduled flights currently about 30, preferably within the Russian Federation and the CIS. Medium and long- haul flights for example, lead also to Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Lyon, Montreal, Munich, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

Furthermore, charter flights with focus be carried out to international destinations, such as regularly to Bangkok, Dubai, Antalya, in the Dominican Republic and Singapore. In the winter season Transaero flies, for example, also Friedrichshafen, Salzburg and Innsbruck to bring ski tourists in the Alps. For this purpose also widebody aircraft are used partly.

Code Sharing

Transaero maintains with several companies codeshare agreement, these are Air Baltic, Austrian Airlines, Belavia, Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines. Including since November, 2008, with numerous other companies interline agreements with Lufthansa.

Fleet

As of November 2013, the fleet of Transaero Airlines from 97 aircraft is with a mean age of 16.2 years: