OREANDA-NEWS. December 04, 2009. In November this year positive dynamics of performance is at JSC Airport Tolmachevo.

Passenger traffic at the airport Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo) is 137 400 people in November and it is 0, 3% more than in November last year. Passenger traffic in Tolmachevo was 153 969 people (growth to plan – 10.6 %). Work of JSC Airport Tolmachevo for equalization performance up last year level gives result.

In the first four months of this year, the average decline was 20% compared with the previous year. However, in November there has been a positive growth trend of 9.6%. There is a 6.1 % growth of take-off mass compared with last year.

There is also stable dynamic of indicators on international flights, due to realized JSC "Airport Tolmachevo" policy on de-monopolization of the Novosibirsk aviation market. Besides S7 airline airlines Transaero, OrenAir, Pegasus Airlines, Nord Wind and several other airlines successfully operate with charter program from Novosibirsk this year. In addition, some tour operators who previously worked in neighboring regions, is concentrating its development programs in Novosibirsk by a more comfortable environment offered them the leadership of JSC Airport Tolmachevo.

New airlines Air Astana, Ural Airlines and Polet began perform regular flights from airport Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo) in current year. Airlines perform only on Moscow route 10-12 flights from Tolmachevo, international flight is also performed on Asia route such as Astana, Beijing, Urumqi, Bishkek, Osh and Tashkent. Flights from Tolmachevo to Surgut, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Vladivostok, Peace, Ulan-Ude, Nizhnevartovsk, Yekaterinburg and other cities of Russia is perform with a similar intensity.

Airport Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo) is a mature hub. The specialists of JSC Airport Tolmachevo produce quality and certified ground handling for about 80 Russian and foreign cargo and passenger airlines. As the largest metropolis of Siberia and one of the largest municipalities in Russia, Novosibirsk covers the territory of more than 5 million square meters. km - around 30% in Russia, with a population of more than 20 million people (over 14% of the population of Russia). 14 million people live within a radius of 500 km from Novosibirsk.

Basic airline S7 is dynamically developing, expanding its route network from Novosibirsk and adding to its fleet of modern aircraft. In addition Airlines Novosibirsk Avia finishes its relocation in Airport Tolmachevo, which will be the second base (regional) airline.

In addition, second runway certified category 2 ICAO will be put into operation next year and will make virtually all-weather airport.

Overall positive trend in the economy and aviation industry and also efforts of the JSC Airport Tolmachevo helped reduce the impact of the crisis and expand route network from Novosibirsk.