OREANDA-NEWS. September 29, 2010.  Vnukovo International has won the nomination as Russia's Air Transport Industry Leader, making it a laureate of the Sixth Federal [publicly sponsored] Golden Chariot Awards of the Transport Industry. The Awards' co-founders are Russia's Ministry of Transport and the State Duma Committee for Energy, Transport and Communications with recipients among enterprises of the Federal transport industry including its scientific and education subbranches.

The formal awards ceremony was held in the State Kremlin Palace on September 8, 2010, attended by a significant number of representatives of the nation's political, scientific, cultural, and business elite. The award statuette and honorary certificate were presented to Vasily Alexandrov, JSC Vnukovo Airport Director General, Major-General of the Aviation Reserve, Military Airman 1st Class, Candidate of Military Sciences.

Vnukovo Airport had been nominated for a Golden Chariot Award as one of the most rapidly developing and growing air gateways of the nation. Currently Vnukovo holds a leading position not only among the nation's airports but also among those of Europe. Despite the consequences of the world economic crisis, Vnukovo International has been consistently displaying across-the-board growth in all types of air transportation. The average passenger growth rate in the industry has comprised 6,3 percent, whereas that attained at Vnukovo International has more than quintupled the federal average and comprises an impressive 26,9 percent.

Even during the height of the world economic crisis, Vnukovo International has at no time halted or slowed down the construction of its new passenger Terminal A with the total floor space offering of 250 thousand square meters, enabling it's test-mode launch and the welcoming of first air travelers as early on as this year's month of July. As far as its structural and engineering features are concerned, the Terminal is quite without par in the nation and is currently Russia's technologically foremost facility of it's kind. The air terminal concept won the gold medal nomination at Brussels Eureka 2006.

The Airport is the closest-located one to the Metropolis among the three major air gateways comprising the so-called Moscow Air Transport Cluster. Vnukovo is Moscow's only airport that is fully and seamlessly integrated into the city's mass transit infrastructure. The public commuting to/from the Airport enjoys the benefit of three major thoroughfares - all of them recently overhauled and renovated; therefore, our passengers are free to choose any of the several commute options, be it by car/cab, by mass transit, or by an Aeroexpress high-speed train that will get them to the Airport in a mere 40 minutes' time.

Vnukovo's ongoing advances have merited an honorary mention during the Golden Chariot Federal Air Transport Awards ceremony by the event's organizers, with the Airport's representatives formally congratulated. The Airport's workforce have also received the best wishes of keeping up Vnukovo's hallowed traditions through as efficient and good a work in the years to come.