One of the key events in the region’s air transport industry calendar, Wings of Russia International Aviation Forum is recognized as a must-visit conference for the airline business leaders and the community of decision-makers influencing strategic development of the air transport in Russia. Wings of Russia Forum brings together Russian airline SEOs with international aircraft industry, leasing and finance as well as industry suppliers and government officials to discuss vital issues and challenges which rapidly growing market in the region is facing today.

Conference agenda reflects the latest trends in the Russian air transport industry that is undergoing intensive modernization and development. The year 2011 sees a continued extensive growth of international and domes-tic air traffic in the region as well as international and domestic route network expansion backed up by new deliveries of long-haul and regional jets and turbo-props. Russian air transport is verging towards revolutionary changes as foreign investors reportedly may gain the right to own controlling stakes at Russian airlines. This move would open new fantastic opportunities for foreign investors and airlines in the context of Russian air transport market development in the mid and long term. How do Russian airlines estimate the market potential and prospects? Will foreign capital bring improvements to airline management and business development? Are foreign investors ready to participate in managing their potential aviation assets in Russia? What do airlines and investors expect from aviation authorities and regulators? Answers, views and first-hand opinions of airline SEOs, regulators and experts will be the business of the day at the Wings of Russia Forum.

Audience

With up to 400 high level attendees, the conference program has been designed to attract a wide range of audiences including market players with professional interests and expertise in the Russian and CIS air transport. The conference success is based largely on its key audience — senior management of Russian and CIS major and regional airlines who recognize Wings of Russia Forum as a must-visit event. A growing attendance from international industry suppliers, financiers, lessors and MRO has proved Wings of Russia Forum to be the major communication and networking platform for air transport professionals in the region.

Airlines participating at Wings of Russia Forum 2011 include:

224 Crew Planning Department, Aerolimousine, Aeroflot — Russian Airlines, AirBridgeCargo, Air France KLM, Ak Bars Aero, Alrosa, Avcom, Aviacon Zitotrans, Belavia, Dagestan Airlines, Donavia, Gazpromavia, Hahn Air, Jet 2000, Komiaviatrans, Lufthansa German Airlines, Meridian, Moskovia, Nordavia, Orenburg Airlines, Polet, Red Wings, Rossiya, Rusline, S7 Airlines, Severstal, Taimyravia, Tatarstan, Tajik Air, Transaero, Tulpar Air, Ural Airlines, UTair, VIM-AVIA, Volga Dnepr, Yakutia.

Conference audience 2011

Among speakers at Wings of Russia Forum 2011:

• Valery Okulov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
• Christopher Buckley, Executive Vice President, Europe, Asia and Pacific, Airbus
• Vladimir Kamynin, Business Development Director, Domodedovo Moscow Airport
• Sergey Gavrilov, Deputy Chairman of Transport Committee, State Duma of the Russian Federation
• Denis Ilyin, Managing Director Aviation, Basic Element
• Andrey Martirosov, General Director, UTair Airlines
• Jon Hart, Environment Strategy Manager — Civil Aerospace Future Programmes, Rolls-Royce
• Alexander Rubtsov, General Director, Ilyushin Finance Co
• Roman Strukov, Deputy Director of Corporate Client Services Department, Sberbank Leasing
• Mikhail Berdennikov, Senior Vice-President, PowerJet
• Sergey Likharev, General Director, Basel Aero
• Pavel Udod, 1st Deputy General Director, Yakutia Airlines
• Andrey Natsvin, Deputy Director General, Safety and Quality, Transaero Airlines

Participants testimonials:

• Issues discussed at the conference were extremely important
  Dmitry Bannikov, Deputy General Director, VIM-AVIA Airlines
• High-profiled community and networking platform
  Andrey Girin, Senior Lawyer, Volga-Dnepr Group
• Organized at high level Wings of Russia gathered the community of air transport professionals
  Andrey Shagunov, Deputy General Director, Business Development, Polet Airlines
• It was interesting to compare the views of government officials and market practitioners
  Tagir Mukhametshin, Head of Marketing Department, Ufa International Airport
• Professional ground for discussions, panel discussion «ETS and the Russian air transport» was particularly interesting
  Sergey Postoev, State Research and Development Institute for Civil Aviation