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Russia’s Aeroflot Ranked Close to World Best Airlines
Aeroflot-Russian Airlines is one of the world best airlines in terms of 2006 financial results, ITAR-TASS reported with reference to the August issue of The Airline Business.
The country’s national carrier, state-run Aeroflot was ranked Europe’s tenth and world’s 39th in terms of the core business revenues. But the company climbed to the 19th position worldwide if judged by the net profits. Aeroflot revenues reached $2.983 billion past year and the airlines posted net profits of $258.1 million.
Aeroflot currently makes 302 flights a day, independently covering 93 settlements of 47 states all over the world. It controls 51 percent of the foreign flight market of Russia. Taken for domestic flights, Aeroflot has expanded to roughly 12 percent (close to 18 percent with subsidiaries taken into account), while the strategic purpose is to step up to 25 percent by 2010.
Aeroflot is Russia’s first airline that is the member of global aviation alliance. Having joined SkyTeam in April 2006, Aeroflot paved the way for its passengers to the route net of 728 settlements in 149 states of the world.
Aeroflot has 90 planes in the fleet, which is deemed one of the youngest fleets in Europe. Indeed, of these 90 airliners, 40 percent are the up-to-date A320s of Airbus and Boeing Â767s. The plans are to extend the fleet in late 2008 by Sukhoi SuperJet-100s and new A330s.
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