OREANDA-NEWS. Travel.ru information portal, one of the most popular Internet tourist resources in Russia, presented its annual "Travel.ru Star" Awards. Aeroflot was named The Best Airline both on CIS and North America destinations.

The "Travel.ru Star" is the first and unique customer award in the field of travel industry in Russia. Since 2003 every year thousands of Internet users through on-line voting process have been choosing the best of the best among airlines, airports, travel agencies, hotels, resorts and countries.

In 2012 more than 10.000 users voted for 21 air companies, which resulted to Aeroflot top honors in these nominations (the eighth consecutive year since 2003 on CIS destination and for the fifth time on North America destination).

Celebrating its 90-th anniversary in 2013, Aeroflot is Russia’s flagship airline and the largest national air company. Proudly being a member of SkyTeam global airline alliance, Aeroflot with its partnering members provides service to 1000 destinations in 187 countries. Aeroflot operates one of the most modern and youngest fleets in Europe counting 130 aircraft formed by Airbus, Boeing and Sukhoi airliners with an average airplane age of 5 years. In 2012 Aeroflot carried 17,7 million passengers, continuously showing the best results in modern Russia’s history. In the same year Aeroflot received Readers’ Choice Conde Nast Traveller Award as the best Russian airline.