Volga-Dnepr Group Wins Top Industry Award for its Contribution to the Development of Russian Air Transport

Volga-Dnepr Group has been honoured with a special award to mark its ‘Contribution to the development of Russian air transport’ in the annual Wings of Russia Awards to recognise excellence in commercial air transport.

Sergey Shklyanik, Senior Vice President of Volga-Dnepr was presented with the Group’s award at a ceremony in Moscow by Valery Okulov, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Transport. This is the first time the Wings of Russia Awards has included a category to acknowledge a company’s outstanding contribution to the development of Russian aviation. The new award comes as

Volga-Dnepr prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first commercial flight.

“Over all these years, our company has worked to boost the level of service for our customers and to be recognised as a distinguished Russian corporation in the international market. We encouraged every contribution from our employees to the company's development, and we are very excited to receive this highest award in the year of Volga-Dnepr's 25th anniversary” – said Sergey Shklyanik.

This is the thirteenth Wings of Russia award to be presented to the Group. Its charter airline, Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the world’s largest transporter of unique, outsize and heavyweight air cargo, and AirBridgeCargo Airlines, one of the world’s fastest-growing scheduled cargo airlines, have previously won the ‘Airline of the Year - Cargo Carrier on Domestic and International Routes’ award. Volga-Dnepr Airlines has been honoured seven times and AirBridgeCargo on four occasions since the awards began in 1997. Volga-Dnepr Group’s most recent award, prior to this latest success, came in 2013 when it won the ‘Best Business Project in Russian Civil Aviation’ category.