PAT ROCHE JOINS VOLGA-DNEPRUK AS COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR

Pat Roche joins Volga-DneprUK as Commercial Director

London-Stansted Airport, 15 February 2002

Volga-DneprUK is pleased to announce the appointment of Pat Roche as its Commercial Director. Pat joins the company at its London-Stansted base from his previous position as Director of Sales and International Development for Menzies World Cargo.

Pat knows the air cargo industry inside-out having started as a teenage trainee freight forwarder with Meadows Airfreight in 1967 before working steadily upwards in a number of different positions with Middle East Airlines, Seaboard World, and Flying Tigers. He then established London Cargo Group, later selling the flourishing business to BOC. Pat became Group Managing Director of BOC Cargo Services which was later taken over by Menzies.

Alexey Isaikin, General Director of Volga-Dnepr Airlines says: "Pat Roche is widely regarded as one of the most experienced persons in the international air cargo industry and I am delighted that he has joined the Volga-Dnepr team. His appointment reflects Volga-Dnepr's continuing commitment to building an international team of the highest possible professional standards."

Pat says:"I'm looking forward immensely to working in this new sector. I 'm already impressed by the thoroughness and professionalism of Volga-Dnepr. We will offer a quality service that is also reliable and therefore cost-efficient to our client industries."

Born in 1951, Pat is married to Penny and has two sons, Erin 21 and Timothy, aged 18. A keen golfer, Pat also enjoys travel, reading, driving and supports both Tottenham Hotspur and Brentford soccer clubs. Pat is a Fellow of the Institute of Freight Professionals.

Volga-DneprUK Ltd is a British subsidiary of Russia's Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the international market leader in the outsized and super-heavy air cargo market. The airline owns nine Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan, the world's largest production freighters, each with a payload capacity of 120 tonnes.