OREANDA-NEWS. December 16, 2011. Air company “Aviacon Zitotrans” was included in the list of leading air companies in Russia. The company took the 15 place in freight turnover  in Russia and the fifth place in international one. According to the general rating “Aviacon Zitotrans” left behind air company “Sibir” and took the 6 position. ( in front there are only “heavy-weight” “Air Bridge Cargo”, “Aireflot”, ”Volga-Dnepr” and “Transaero”).

Rating was made on the base of key factors of Russian air carries’ work for the first 8 months of 2011 by the magazine “Grazhdanskaya aviatziya”. For this period “Aviacon Zitotrans” has carried 8 542,3 tons of cargos and mail.

It should be noted that “Aviacon Zitotrans” specializes in cargo transportation on the planes IL-76. For 16 years air company the geography of flights was widened to 144 countries all over the world. The average number of hours in the air is more than 10,000 among the commanders, more than 8,000 hours among the second pilots. Aircrews were awarded with rewards of the Ministry of transport of RF.