Russian Airline Industry Names Sheremetyevo Airport of the Year
MOSCOW, April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheremetyevo International Airport has been named Airport of the Year in the annual Wings of Russia National Aviation Awards program for the second year in a row.
- MOSCOW, April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheremetyevo International Airport has been named Airport of the Year in the annual Wings of Russia National Aviation Awards program for the second year in a row.
- The Wings of Russia National Aviation Award, named after Evgeny Chibirev, is a program of the Association of Air Transport Operators of the Russian Federation, the industry publication Air Transport Review, and the consulting company Infomost.
- Sheremtyevo International Airport, founded in 1959, was named in honor of the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in 2019, the 220th anniversary year of Pushkin's birth.
- In 2019, Brussels Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, Belavia and Turkish Airlines Cargo all began to operate at Sheremetyevo, and the airport now serves flights to 19 new destinations.