Low-cost carrier Pobeda (stands for Victory) – 100% subsidiary of Aeroflot – Russian Airlines, performed its first commercial flight on route Moscow – Volgograd on December 1st 2014, Aeroflot’s press-service reports.
The carrier will operate daily flights on route Moscow – Volgograd – Moscow from Vnukovo, Terminal A in accordance with the following schedule:
DP 181: departs from Moscow at 10:50 and arrives in Volgograd at 12:40;
DP 182: departs from Volgograd at 13:20 and arrives in Moscow at 15:05.
The airline plans to launch daily flights from Moscow to Yekaterinburg, Samara, Perm, Belgorod, Tyumen and Surgut in December.
Aeroflot CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Budzhetny Perevozschik, Vitaly Saveliev, said: “The name Pobeda is related to the upcoming anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and symbolizes our inevitable victory over those difficulties and challenges faced by our country and our people this year”.
Pobeda will operate new and efficient narrow-body Boeing 737-800NG aircraft featuring single-class cabin layout seating 189 passengers. By the end of 2014 the fleet of the airline will comprise 4 aircraft. By 2018 its fleet should be expanded to 40 airliners. It is expected that by 2018 the company’s route network will comprise over 45 destinations and its passenger traffic will reach 10 million passengers, the company added.