On the 31th of March 2008 Brussels Airlines launches 2nd schedule flight on. The airline will operate Airbus 319 six times a week. At present the airline operates comfortable Airbus 319 daily flights on Brussels – Moscow (DME) – Brussels route. First flight was from Brussels to Moscow Domodedovo International airport was launched on the 28th of March 2004.   >>>

 Transaero Airlines, Russian second largest airline on international routes, opened at Moscow Domodedovo airport its new Information and service centre where every one can get assistance of the company’s representatives, buy or change a ticket and find updated info on the carrier’s flights’ status and schedule. Besides Transaero Airlines has become the first Russian airline which provides its passengers with several self check-in kiosks at Moscow Domodedovo International airport.Information centre which is located in the main check-in area of the airport is a unique combination of design and technology including exclusive aquariums with toy fishes, the largest in the airport service plasma display and STEREO VARIO panels.“Transaero always aims at making its passengers’ trip cozy and pleasant both on the ground and in the air. And this Information centre together with self check-in kiosks at Domodedovo symbolize our bid to offer clients the best service they can get”, - said Olga Pleshakova, Transaero Air  >>>

On the 14th of December Japan airlines first flight to Moscow Domodedovo International airport took place. Flight opening was a festive. The crew and the captain were presented with memorable gifts.Following people took part in the official part: JAL Executive Vice President Mr. Katsuhiko NAWANO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan in Russian Federation Mr. Yasuo SAITO and Domodedovo airport complex Director Mr. Sergey Rudakov."JAL has been operating flights on Moscow - Tokyo route since 1967. This anniversary year we are shifting our services to Domodedovo airport on the back of advanced security systems, proper technique at Domodedovo, what will allow us to improve passenger service quality.This is the first time the airline changes the airport on account of such reasons", - Mr. Nawano said. He also noticed that JAL would increase flight frequency on the route. "We have been preparing this event for a long time. Japan Airlines will recruit oneworld member who already operate to Domodedov  >>>

The largest Japanese air carrier, JAL, is to transfer its flights to Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport on December 14, 2007. JAL will be the 29th foreign airline to operate its flights to the Domodedovo airport.The passengers and the crew of the first flight from Tokyo will be welcomed at the Domodedovo airport by a group of girls wearing Russian national costumes.The official ceremony dedicated to the launch of JAL flights to Domodedovo will be attended by: the Executive Vice President of JAL, Mr, Navano, the Ambassador of Japan in Russia, Mr. Saito, and the Director of the Domodedovo airport complex, Mr. Sergey Rudakov.Schedule flights between Moscow and Tokyo will be operated twice a week using modern Boeing 777 aircraft.JAL timetable for Tokyo – Moscow – Tokyo flights Destination Flight No. Departure Arrival Operated onTokyo – Moscow (Domodedovo)JL 44111:1015:251…5..Moscow (Domodedovo) – TokyoJL 44217:1508:501…5..                          *local times   >>>

Yulia SelivanovaGorokhovets. Panoramic viewMoscow Domodedovo International Airport and creative association “Art Impress” are to launch a second exposition within the framework of the art project “From city to city” on December the 20th, 2007.Works of young modern artists will be displayed in the airport’s VIP-lounge. Many of the artists are graduates of the Moscow Academic Institute named after V. I. Surikov. The exposition will consist of more than sixty paintings and drawings completed in various techniques and art styles ranging from academic precision to vanguard experiments with colour, form, and spatial ratios.The main theme of the exposition is the human being, his path and place on earth. It is not only the theme that makes the exposition a comprehensive whole, but it is also a special lyrical mood and spirituality of images that are common for all the works, be that the whirl of a megalopolis or the leisurely pace of the province, the fluidity of the country living or the frozen architectural static  >>>

Effective from December 2007, "EAST LINE TECHNIQUE" Co. Ltd., an EAST LINE Group member company, offers Russian and CIS airlines a wheel and brake repair and maintenance service (RMS) for foreign-made aircraft.This is an exclusive service. At the moment, EAST LINE TECHNIQUE wheel and brake repair and maintenance shop is the only independent provider of this type of services in the Russian Federation and the CIS.“The market analysis we conducted has shown a high demand for this type of services and proved that the launch of a wheel and brake service shop at the Domodedovo airport would be economically effective. At the moment, the overwhelming majority of RF and CIS airlines do not have their own wheel and brake repair and maintenance facilities and are therefore forced to use the services of foreign companies. This is associated with a number of difficulties and rather significant costs. The aircraft wheel and brake repair and maintenance shop at Domodedovo airport will provide RF and CIS airlines with a conv  >>>

According to performance results of January-November 2007 Moscow Domodedovo International Airport keeps maintaining leading position in terms of passenger traffic in Moscow aviation hub. Passenger throughput amounted to 17 353 311 passengers in January-November 2007, a 22.1% increase over the same period in 2006.According to forecast Domodedovo airport’s passenger throughput will reach 18.7 mln by the end of 2007.The highest growth was recorded on such destinations as Hurgada, Sharm el Sheikh, St.Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Dubai, Bangkok, Tel-Aviv, Dushanbe and London. 4 660 457 passengers were serviced in DME on these routes in January-October 2007, which is 1.3 times higher than the results of the same period in 2006.In November 2007 total passenger traffic amounted to 1 418 533 passengers, a 23.8% increase over the same period in 2006. Passenger traffic growth dynamics in November and within eleven months 2007:Passenger traffic growth dynamics in November and within eleven months 2007:   >>>

Photo: Aleksandr VasilevA prize-awarding aviation spotting session was held on November the 28th at Domodedovo airport. This event brought together participants and the winners of the open Aviation Photography Competition.Photographers who garnered most votes not only received prizes from the organizers of the competition, but they also were given an opportunity to participate in a unique spotting session: they could photograph aircraft at a safe distance from taxiways and runways while still remaining within their immediate proximity. The event program also included an excursion to the ATB.In May 2007, for the first time in Russia, the Domodedovo airport brought together the country’s best spotters – almost 50 professional photographers specialising in taking pictures of aircraft. The participants of the first session suggested holding similar events on a regular basis. Domodedovo airport supports aviation photography lovers and continues to organize aviation spotting sessions. * * * Aviation spotting is a h  >>>

Photo: Aleksandr ZhukovThe route network of Moscow Domodedovo International Airport has been expanded with new destinations. Transaero is launching new regular flights to Sydney (Australia), Johannesburg (SAR), and Mauritius.Schedule flights from Moscow to Sydney with an interim landing in Hong Kong will be launched on December the 24th, 2007 and operated once every fortnight using Boeing 767 aircraft. Transaero will be one of the few European airlines, alongside British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Air France, to operate regular flights to Australia.On December the 29th, Transaero will start operating regular flights from Moscow to Mauritius via Johannesburg. The airline will operate Boeing 767 2-3 times a month.“Sydney is not only a new destination offered by Transaero and Moscow Domodedovo International Airport, but it is also the first schedule flight to Australia from Russia. Not only will the Moscow – Sydney flights help increase the flow of travelers between the two countries, but they will also connec  >>>

During the final phase of the contest an authoritative jury will determine three winners whose names will be announced on December the 25th, 2007. The jury consists of the chief editor of the children’s magazine “Murzilka”, Tatiana Androsenko, the honorary artist of Russia, choreographer Andris Liepa, photographer Yuri Afanasyev, artist Mikhail Satarov, and Boris Grachevsky, artistic director of the movie magazine “Yeralash”, who is also the jury’s chairman.The contest winners will be awarded with honorary diplomas and a week-long trip to Paris including a visit to Disneyland. A special prize, “Young people’s artist”, will be awarded to the non-winning author who will receive most votes as a result of interactive voting on the website of Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport (www.domodedovo.ru).The contest of children’s drawings “Chasing childhood dreams to the airport of the future” was organized by Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport. Sixty-nine drawings created by artists from various Russian reg  >>>

A complex training session was held today at Moscow Domodedovo International Airport with Emergency Rescue Team (ERT) and the aerodrome’s operative shift services participation.According to the training legend, a passenger aircraft with jammed landing gear was forced to land at the Domodedovo airport. As a result of landing the forward fuselage of the aircraft was serious damaged. This caused a fire onboard. The ERT and the aerodrome services were to implement a full scope of activities required in case of an aviation accident and meet a range of strictly set norms: they were to evacuate the passengers from the aircraft, provide required assistance to injured passengers and crew members, extinguish the fire onboard, and remove a dangerous cargo from the airplane.The training session consisted of three phases. In the course of the first phase the ability of all participating detachments to arrive and gather together at a deployment point within a certain amount of time was verified. In the course of the second  >>>

ACI Europe (Airports Council International – European division) has published a report on performance of 104 European airports in September 2007. According to the report Moscow Domodedovo International airport maintains leading position among European airports of 2nd Group which passenger traffic varies from 10 to 25 million passengers per year. Domodedovo airport comes first with its 29% of growth in September 2007 (in comparison with the results of September 2006) of among fast-growing airports of 2nd Group. Second position holds Berlin airport (11% of growth), third position took Vienna airport (10,7% of growth). Average growth ratio of the Group reached 7,1% in comparison with the results of September 2006 and 13,1% of growth in comparison with the results of September 2005. *** ACI Europe (http://www.aci-europe.org/) is a regional division of ACI Global, headquartered in Geneva. Its regional branches represent interests of over 1,500 airports from 170 countries. Dmitry Kamenschik, Chairman of the Board o  >>>

On December the 2nd from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. election precinct № 404 will be open at Domodedovo Passenger Terminal. The election precinct will be open for holding of State Duma elections and head count.Airport’s passengers and its guests who can’t vote at place of residence registration election precincts could vote in the airport. For voting one should present his/her absentee ballot which should be received at his/her territorial or local election committee. Airport staff working on the 2nd of December could also vote at the airport’s election precinct.The election precinct will be located between VIP-lounge and first check-in island. Corresponding sign is already fixed at the Passenger Terminal.Police employees and airport’s security staff will ensure safety at the airport during the elections.   >>>

On November the 20th 2007 Lvov airlines launches new schedule route Kharkov-Moscow(DME)-Kharkov. Beside that the airline resumes operating on Lvov-Moscow(DME) route on November the 21st.In summary 7 Ukrainian cities will be connected with Domodedovo airport: Kharkov, Lvov, Kiev, Odessa, Simferopol, Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk.Cooperation between Lvov airlines and Moscow Domodedovo International airport started in June 2005 when the airline launched schedule flights from Lvov and later – from Uzhgorod and Rovno.Passenger throughput between Ukrainian airport and Domodedovo is constantly growing. The passenger traffic amounted to 250 000 pax for 10 months 2007 only, when it reached about 209 000 pax in 2006.Lvov airlines time schedule on Kharkov-Moscow-KharkovandLvov-Moscow-Lvov routes* Destination  Departure Arrival DaysKharkov-Moscow (DME) 08:1510:453,5,7…Moscow (DME) – Kharkov 19:3020:002,4,6… Lvov - Moscow (DME)14:0018:152,4,6…Moscow (DME)– Lvov 12:0014:153,5,7…   >>>

Google, the world’s leader in the Internet technologies field, and Moscow Domodedovo International Airport, the largest airport in Russia and Eastern Europe, announce their first joint initiative designed to help people to make more effective use of their time. For convenience of passengers and airport visitors the companies have designed an online Domodedovo timetable gadget for the personalized Google webpage.Google gadgets are lightweight applications that simplify user’s access to required information and may be installed on the personalized Google webpage. The Domodedovo airport gadget will inform you of arrival and departure times and any changes in the airport’s timetable. Information is updated in the real time mode and all one needs to do to view required data is to open the Google page.The Domodedovo gadget will be useful to those who value their time and like to keep abreast of important developments. It will become an irreplaceable assistant to travelers, travel agents, taxi companies, office ma  >>>

According to performance results of January-October 2007 Moscow Domodedovo International Airport maintains leading position in terms of passenger traffic in Moscow aviation hub. Passenger throughput amounted to 15 934 778 passengers in January-October 2007, a 21.9% increase over the same period in 2006.Within 10 months of 2007 Domodedovo airport serviced more passengers than within the whole 2006. According to forecast Domodedovo airport’s passenger throughput will reach 18.7 mln in 2007.The highest growth was recorded on such destinations as Yekaterinburg, Hurghada, Antalya, Sharm el Sheikh, London, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Bangkok, Krasnodar, Mineralnye Vody. 4 266 838 passengers were serviced in DME on these routes in January-October 2007, a 23% increase against the results of the same period in 2006.In October 2007 total passenger traffic amounted to 1 651 955 passengers, a 26.7% increase over the same period in 2006.Passenger traffic growth dynamics 2007IndexOctober 2007 (pax)Increase against the sam  >>>

Photo: Aleksandr SavchenkoNew technology is implemented in Moscow Domodedovo International airport – electronic feed-back stand. The stands can be used by any passenger to give opinion on airport’s services. Passengers can also leave their contacts so that Domodedovo’s professionals could get in touch with them and qualify their statements as well as to provide clients with an answer.This form of address complements already existing feed-back systems, like hotline, book of complaints and airport’s website. All the information will be handled by professionals and the answer will be given within 9 days.«There is no doubt we could have improved service quality without any comments from airlines and passengers”, - says Sergey Rudakov, Director Domodedovo Airport Complex.«Today, on the World Quality Day, we are very pleased to announce new technologies were implemented in Domodedovo airport. We’re treating our clients carefully and, of course, taking their opinion into account. These facts allow us to maintain hig  >>>

Yesterday, in Ararat Park Hyatt hotel, 7th annual interline conference DME Connections 2007 took place. The conference was dedicated to transfer connections development within Moscow Domodedovo International airport.36 Russian and foreign airlines representatives took part in the conference. The carriers had a chance to discuss further cooperation perspectives on organizing connection flights.“Moscow aviation hub unique geographic location allows connecting air currents between Europe and Asia. One of the main aims of Domodedovo airport is to develop new markets using it’s ramified routes network”, - said Domodedovo airport Marketing Director Vladimir Kamynin when opening the conference.According to his story it was right to join carriers’ potential in unified routes network in the context of «Domodedovo Transfer Service» («DTS») project. The project started in summer 2005 and already unifies 38 airlines operating to more than 100 cities all over the world. The project enables to increase commercial possibili  >>>

Today November the 2nd, aviation photography awarding ceremony took place in Moscow Domodedovo International airport VIP-lounge.Master bank representatives took part in the ceremony. Among them were Director Department Retail Business Safonov Oleg and Head of new products implementation Department Koshurnikova Irina.The contest has been rolling on from August the 14th till October the 15th this year on our website www.domodedovo.ru. Everyone could take part in the contest by sending his/her aviation photos to the website address.The winners were rated by website population. And the winners are:Lysceva Marina Voronov Vladimir Gavrilenko Egor Babaevskyi VyacheslavBorisov Feodor Savranskyi Ignatyi Kozhin Vladimir Tomaschevich Irina Morozov Ilya Ryabzev Sergey Lysceva Marina gets one-time service in DME VIP-lounge and Domodedovo International Airport Club Gold card from Master bank for top position.Voronov Vladimir gets Domodedovo International Airport Club Silver card from Master bank.Zhukov Aleksandr gets speci  >>>

Starting from December the 29th 2007 Wind Jet Italian airline launches new regular flights on Turin-Moscow (DME) route. Turin will become a new city in Moscow Domodedovo airport routes network. The airline will operate Airbus 320-200 once a week on Saturdays.Wind Jet airline time schedule Turin-Moscow-Turin (effective from December the 29th 2007)* DestinationFlight #DepartureArrivalDaysAircraftSeatsTurin – Moscow (DME)IV 6529:0015:006…А320-200180Moscow (DME) - TurinIV 65116:1018:106…A320-200180*local timesMassimo Polimeni, Wind Jet Senior V.P. Marketing & Sales comments on the new route: «Modern infrastructure and high quality of services in Domodedovo airport offer airline a challenge to develop. Our load factor has been 88% on flights from Verona, Forli, Catania e Palermo to Russia. Now we hope the new route Moscow-Turin will have the same good results».«Italy is a traditional popular destination among Russian tourists. Usually, number of flights to this country increases during winter period. New flight to  >>>

Today exhibition dedicated to 45 year anniversary of the biggest Moscow airport opened in Domodedovo.Anniversary is an important date in airport’s life when one can turn head backward and appraise significance of mileage and shape future plans. That’s why past and future resonating with each other.It’s a story about the main life stages and historical passages of the airport. One can see the materials from Domodedovo Museum as well as pictures made by modern photographers. Volumetric exhibits like airplane control wheel, first airport director’s case, optical projector (which was used to demonstrate the very first film about the airport) and hand-made aerial map are also presented.The exhibition also offers to have a look at present and future of the airport. The pictures demonstrate reconstruction of Passenger Terminal and future visage of the airport.Holding of exhibitions in the airport and future Museum opening are important parts in creating warm and comfortable atmosphere for passengers and guests of th  >>>

Despite poor visibility and complicated weather conditions Domodedovo airport is taking up and sending the airplanes.Frog is a usual condition for this part of the year in Moscow region. The airport’s modern navigation systems allow taking up the airplanes even if visibility is under 250 meters (3rd and the highest category of complexity). However, in such a case the aircraft captain makes the decision about the landing be reference to technical capability of the aircraft.A variety of delays are caused be weather conditions in airports of departure.   >>>

October 29th is one-year anniversary of co-operation between Moscow Domodedovo International Airport and bmi. bmi, one of the leading British carriers , operates flights to Domodedovo airport since 2006.The airline operates comfortable Airbus 320 daily on the route London (Heathrow)-Moscow (Domodedovo) – London (Heathrow). Constant field extension and service improvement of Domodedovo airport enable to face the joint challenge to optimize passenger handling technologies. Successful experience of co-operation will stimulate further development of partnership between the airline and the airport. * * * Bmi airline was established in 1964 as British Midland Airways. In 80th the carrier already held leading positions in Great Britain. By the end of 90th passenger throughout exceeded 6,5 millions per year. In 2000 the airline joins Star Alliance. In early 2003 the company reverts to the name bmi. bmi today operates flights over a network of 36 airports in the UK, Europe, India, Saudi Arabia and transatlantic to the  >>>

22 flights from other Moscow airports were redirected tom Moscow DME by reason of fog and poor visibility. The airport is operating in normal mode; there were no flight delays registered.As per now Moscow DME takes up and performs flights in normal mode although meteorological conditions have 2nd category of complexity (visibility is about 600 meters). Modern navigation systems allow to take up the airplanes even if visibility is under 250 meters (3rd and the highest category of complexity). In such a case the aircraft captain makes the decision about the landing be reference to technical capability of the aircraft.According to forecasters the visibility will become better during the day and tomorrow, on the 27th of October, sunny weather is expected.   >>>

Starting from 28th of October winter schedule will come to operation. The airlines operating to Moscow DME will open flights on three new destinations: Navoi (Uzbekistan), Lyon (France) and Djerba (Tunisia).Navoi will become 11th uzbek town in Moscow DME routes network. Uzbekistan Airways, Moskovia airline, Domodedovo Airlines, Transaero Airlines, S7 Airlines and VIM Avia will operate flights to Navoi.Transaero Airlines opens flights to Lyon. Lyon will become the second town in France in Moscow DME routes network. The airline will operate Boeing 737-500 weekly on Saturdays. At the end of December the airline will also open additional flight on this route on Wednesdays. The very new for passengers is the route to Djerba (Tunisia). Karthago Airlines will operate Boeing 737-300 with one flight per 10/11 days frequency.   >>>