Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000. She has previously worked for Russky Telegraf 1997-1998, Russia Journal 1999-2000, the Vremya Novostei newspaper 2000-2001, the Russky Focus business weekly 2001-2004 and the Kompania business weekly in 2004-2005.
Starting as a journalist for Air Transport Observer Magazine in 2005, she had become deputy editor by the time she left in 2014, moving to Germany.
She has also written and edited a number of surveys and editorial on airline, aircraft and travel issues for a number of Russian and international publications.
She lives with her husband, twins, and a dog and cat in Cyprus.
Moscow-based VIM Avia (NN) reported 11.8% passenger traffic growth in 2011, with 1.2 million passengers carried. NN’s scheduled flights grew to 79% in 2011 from 51% in 2010, due to the opening of domestic and CIS routes, including Siberia, Russian Far East, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. NN flies to 27 destinations in Russia, CIS and some European countries including Spain, Greece, Italy and Switzerland, as well as charter flights to leisure destinations. Its fleet comprises 11 Boeing 757-200s.
South Russian airports—Sochi (AER), Anapa (AAQ), Gelendzhik (GDZ), Krasnodar (KRR) and Yeisk—reported passenger traffic of 5.4 million in 2011, up 24% over 2010. Passengers carried on domestic routes reached 4.6 million, up 22%. The airports served 772,000 international passengers, up 31% year-over-year.
Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO) served 22.6 million passengers in 2011, 16.7% more than 2010. Traffic on international routes increased 18.1% and reached 14.5 million. Traffic on domestic routes was 8 million, up 14.3% over 2010. Russian carriers with the highest growth at the airport were Aeroflot, Transaero, Nord Wind, Air France and Turkish Airlines. The most popular foreign destinations were Antalya, Paris, Istanbul, Prague and Beijing. The highest demand was on the St. Petersburg, Sochi, Krasnodar and Yekaterinburg routes.
