Transaero Airlines Results for January 2011

Moscow, February 24, 2011 – Transaero Airlines announces its operating results for the first month of 2011 which indicate steady growth of the carrier’s business during the period.

In January 2011:
· Passenger turnover reached 2.498 billion RPK (25.4% increase in comparison with the first month of 2010)
· The total number of passengers carried amounted to 498,572 (19.1% increase in comparison with the same period last year)
· Transaero transported a total amount of 2,373 tons of cargo (38.1% increase in comparison with January of 2010)
· Cargo traffic totaled 238.291 million RTK (26% increase in comparison with the same period last year).

In January 2011 Transaero launched first-ever nonstop Moscow – Rio-de-Janeiro flight as well as resumed operations on Moscow – Mauritius route.

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 59 modern aircraft, including fourteen Boeing 747s, eight Boeing 777s, twelve 767s, twenty two 737s and three Tupolev 214s.  Transaero has the largest long-haul fleet in Russia.  It is the only carrier flying Boeing 777 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 of the world’s safest carriers among 60 largest airlines.  Transaero serves more than 100 routes in Russia, Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America.  Transaero maintains scheduled flights from hubs in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where its head office is located, from Novosibirsk and 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.