Vnukovo Airport, Transaero Airlines Agree To Improve Ground Handling Operations
February 23, 2012 Moscow, -- Vnukovo Airport and Transaero Airlines have signed a Memorandum of strategic cooperation. Vnukovo Airport Chairman of Board of Directors Vitaly Vantsev and Transaero Airlines General Director Olga Pleshakova have put their signatures under the document.
In accordance with the Memorandum the carrier and the airport become strategic partners striving for development of Russian civil aviation market and balanced development of the Moscow aviation hub.
Partners will cooperate on improvement of ground handling of passengers, luggage, air mail and cargo quality with high level of safety and security in full compliance with ICAO and IATA requirements as well as rules and regulations of the Russian legislation.
Transaero will start operations from Vnukovo in May 2012. The carrier will constantly increase its capacity to handle eventually up to 2 million passengers annually. The airport will provide the airline for the necessary infrastructure including slots, parking area and passenger boarding bridges for wide body aircraft.
From Vnukovo, Transaero will perform flights on both domestic and international routes. The airport will guarantee the priority to the carriers large and extra-large aircraft including Airbus A380s, Boeing 747s and Boeing 777s at all the stages of service on the ground and at the air side of the airport.
By the second half of 2015 the airport will provide no less than four parking places (two for domestic flights and two for international) for passengers service of flights performed with Airbus 380 and oeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft.
At the terminal, Transaero will be able to arrange a branded area for service of its passengers including check-in area, separate Sales and Information Office, self check-in kiosks, etc. Vnukovo will provide a special area for service of Transaeros business and Imperial class passengers.
The airport will give an opportunity of high-quality service (including transfer service) for passengers and their luggage of Transaeros flights to and from Kazakhstan by October 2012.
The airport and the airline will set up a MRO facility for Transaeros aircraft at Vnukovo. The airport will assign two bays at its hangar for maintenance work on Boeing 747, Boeing 777 aircraft and other types of jetliners which are currently operated by the carrier. Vnukovo will also provide parking places for Transaero's Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 aircraft.
Two sides have agreed to construct a new hangar for MRO of Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft. The parties have agreed to build a training center (no less than 3000 sq/m of size) with four full-flight simulators. Transaero will invest in complete equipment of the centre and will buy out the constructions to own them. The memorandum comes into effect from the moment of signing by the parties and is valid for 10 years.
Transaero Airlines General Director Olga Pleshakova said: "We have signed a very important agreement which opens new prospects for the development of our airline in Moscow. I highly appreciate the aspiration of Vnukovo airport to provide the most advanced and innovative services to Transaero Airlines."
"I'm confident that strategic cooperation between Transaero and Vnukovo will be a success, and our passengers will benefit from it. We'll do our best to make Transaeros operations via Vnukovo safe and comfortable," said International Vnukovo Airport Chairman of Board of Directors Vitaly Vantsev.
About Transaero Airlines: Transaero Airlines is the second-largest passenger airline in Russia. Transaero launched its services in November, 1991. Transaeros fleet consists of 75 aircraft, including nineteen Boeing 747s, eleven Boeing 777s, thirteen 767s, twenty nine 737s and three Tupolev 214s. Transaero has the largest long-haul fleet in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe. It is the only commercial carrier flying Tupolev 214, Boeing 777-300 and Boeing 747 passenger aircraft in the region. According to the German Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center (JACDEC), the company ranked in the top 5 safest European carriers among the world's 60 largest airlines. Transaero serves more than 110 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 and Novosibirsk. 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. For further information, please contact: Konstantin Tyurkin Head of Mass and Social media Transaero Airlines Tel: +7 495 662 15 60 ext. 18 039 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.transaero.ru/en/index.html
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