Currently Polet Airlines are the undisputed leader among companies providing regional passenger flights in central part of Russia.

Base airport of Polet Airlines is Voronezh-Chertovitskoye. The airline performs over 90% of flights from this airport since August 2003, when the company started its passenger flights.

Being the first-rate carrier of the central region, the company meets the continuing growth of passengers' demand for its services. Thus, in 2003 Polet carried approximately 7000 of passengers, and by 2006 this number increased by 20 times and came up to 140,000 people. At the end of 2008 we faced the greatest number of passenger - 217,900 of people carried.

Our strategy is to increase the passenger traffic at Voronezh-Chertovitskoye Airport: up to 300,000 passengers are planned to be carried in 2009, and in 2010 this number is planned to be increased up to 370,000.

Our routes

Polet Airlines makes its flights to 14 cities of CIS, Europe and Asia. Our route network consists of popular directions in Russia - Voronezh-Moscow, Voronezh-St. Petersburg, Voronezh-Sochi, Voronezh-Ulyanovsk, and also capital towns of CIS: Yerevan, Baku, Kostanay. International routes are represented by regular flights Voronezh-Prague, Voronezh-Munich and Voronezh-Istanbul. Since May 2005 we implemented a program of charter flights that includes popular tourist routes, such as Antalya, Larnaca, Podgorica, Pula and Tivat.

Every year the company offers its passengers new routes - in 2008 we started flights to Yekaterinburg, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Ostrava (Czech Republic).

Partner agreements

In order to expand the covered area of flights, Polet Airlines signed bilateral interline agreements with Czech Airlines, opening the air way to European cities through Prague, and an agreement with Deutsche Bahn (German Railway), bringing passengers to cities of Europe through Munich.

Multilateral agreement with Domodedovo Airport allows to travel to Siberian cities, and there are also perspective plans for the Far East cities of Russia.

Development of base airport

Polet Airlines is doing a significant work on the project of base airport fundamental reconstruction.

By now, we have a general layout of reconstruction that is planned for 10 years from now, this plan includes the rebuilding of passenger terminals and reconstruction of the whole airport area; design specifications and investment project are already approved. The first stage of reconstruction supported by funds of federal budget shall include the following:

• reconstruction of runway: rebuilding of runway surface and replacement of lighting;
• renovation of air navigation facilities for landing
• replacement of meteorological equipment

Our awards

As a successful passenger carrier, Polet Airlines is a winner of prestigious Russian awards - in 2005 and 2007 the airline won the national award Wings of Russia as the best regional carrier. During the last two years the company was awarded by Domodedovo Airport with a honorable title of "Most regular airline".

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