OREANDA-NEWS. May 4, 2007. The well-known web portal Travel.ru –one of the most popular Russian-language tourism portals on the Internet– has announced the results of its annual Travel Star awards for 2006. Several thousand visitors to the Travel.ru site took part in the voting.


S7 Airlines won a Travel.ru ‘Starred Certificate of Merit’ in the category ‘Best Airline’ (for flights in Russia and the rest of the CIS, and in the category ‘Best Airline Operating Charter Flights’.

The main aim of the awards is to find out Russians’ travel preferences. The high opinion of S7’s work from air passengers and tourists is particularly valuable to us. These people have not just pressed a voting button on the side; they vote every day ‘with their ruble’ when they choose S7’s services from a wide range of offers.

At S7, we are continuously improving our standards of service, updating our aircraft fleet, and making every effort to ensure present and memorable travel for our passengers. S7 Airlines is Russia’s largest domestic carrier and one of the world’s top 50 domestic airlines. In terms of passenger numbers, S7 is Russia’s second-biggest airline overall. In 2006, S7 made more than 40,000 flights, carrying 4,900,000 passengers and more than 28,000 tonnes of cargo and post. S7’s fleet comprises 62 Airbus A310/A319, Boeing 737-500/400, Il-86 and Tu-154M aircraft.