UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 7, 2017. Koltsovo Airport came up with its first airlines’ punctually rating featuring air carriers that operate their flights from the Yekaterinburg-based airport, their press service reports.

All airlines got broken down into three different categories: Russia’s largest companies that contributed the most to the airport’s overall passenger traffic; other national companies; and international air carriers. A fifteen-minute-plus delay in departure time was classed as tardiness (excluding the cases when flights got suspended due to bad weather conditions).

Pobeda (90.3%), Aeroflot (89.6%), and Rossiya (88%) proved the most punctual airlines in the Large National Airlines category in the first half of the year; Orenburzhye (96.2%), RusLine (95.8%), and Globus (95.7%) were leaders in the National Airlines category, and Cordon Airlines (95.7%), Air Astana (92.4%), and Finnair (89.4%) were the top three carriers in the International Airlines category.