OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Domodedovo Airport announced winners of the monthly most punctual airlines contest. In February, 2013 the best airlines in eight different categories (depending on the flights frequency and the passenger traffic) are: Transaero Airlines, Ural Airlines, Saratov Airlines, Pskovavia, Uzbekistan Airways, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways International.

Transaero Airlines won in the first category and operated 1402 on-time flights in February. Ural Airlines became the leader in the second category and operated 430 flights without delays.

Saratov Airlines headed the third category and had 95 flights exactly according to schedule.

Pskovavia with 12 on-time flights won in the fourth category.

There are the following leaders in terms of punctuality among foreign airlines are: Uzbekistan Airways (the fifth category, 131 flights), British Airways (the sixth category, 70 flights without delays), Singapore Airlines (the seventh category, 38 on-time flights) and Thai Airways International (the eights category, 16 flights according to schedule).

The monthly contest stimulates airlines to work for victory leading to the main target – comfort increase for the passengers of Moscow Domodedovo Airport.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport — is the largest one of Russia, in 2012 the airport served 28,2 million people. It joins the category of the largest airports in Europe on the classification of the Airports Council International (ACI) and on results of 2012 became one of three European airports with the highest dynamic development. Domodedovo is chosen for flights by member airlines of two largest global airline alliances — Star Alliance and oneworld.