Post-event report

PARTNER PARTNERS OF NOMINATIONS Award ceremony Moscow, May 31, 2021 — the 24th ceremony of the National Aviation Award ‘Wings of Russia’ named af- ter Evgeny Chibirev was held in Moscow, recognizing the achievements of Russia’s best airlines and airports by their 2020 performance. Attended by over 250 guests, the ceremony once again brought together the aviation community from across the country and well beyond. Wings of Russia is the most prestigious award in the Russian aviation industry. Winning it is the token of recognition and success. Award winners are the in- dustry’s leading organizations, which have made the greatest contribution to the development of Russia’s air transport market. At the ceremony, 11 award prizes were handed to the nominees; nine of them were identified by a ballot of the competition’s Expert Council, made of respected representatives of public organizations, aviation business, media and independent industry analysts.

2 | Wings of Russia National Airline Award, May 31, 2021 6. Airline of the Year — AeroGeo Laureates and diploma holders Helicopter Services Alrosa Naryan-Mar PANKH UTair Helicopters NOMINATIONS NOMINEES, LAUREATES Yamal Helicopters AND DIPLOMA HOLDERS 7. For the Route Networks Aeroflot S7 Airlines 1. Airline of the Year Aeroflot Krasavia Development Azimut Sila-Avia Aircraft AeroGeo S7 Airlines AZUR Air UTair Avrora Sirius Aero Rusline UVT Aero Azimut Ural Airlines 8. For the Efficiency in a Crisis Aeroflot Rusline AZUR Air UTair AeroGeo Izhavia S7 Airlines ATRAN Sila-Avia Aircraft 2. Airport of the Year Anapa Pulkovo Avrora Sirius Aero Domodedovo Sheremetyevo Azimut Smartavia Izhevsk Simferopol AZUR Air Ural Airlines Kaluga Sochi IzAvia UTair Kazan Vnukovo KrasAvia UVT Aero Omsk NordStar Volga-Dnepr 3. Airline of the Year — 1st Group Azimut Smartavia RedWings Yamal Helicopters (annual traffic from 1 to 6 million AZUR Air Ural Airlines 9. For the Implementation of Strategic AZUR Air passengers) NordWind UTair Development Plan in a Crisis RedWings 10. Airport of the Year by 21 airports 4. Airline of the Year — 2nd Group Avrora Passengers’ Choice Ekaterinburg (annual traffic from 0.5 to 1 million NordStar passengers) 11. Airline of the Year by 26 airlines Passengers’ Choice Aeroflot 5. Airline of the Year — 3rd Group Alrosa Rusline (annual traffic up to 0,5 million Izhavia Sirius Aero 12. For the Strategic Development Aeroflot Group passengers) Krasavia UVT Aero Plan Realization in a Crisis Naryan-Mar

3 | Wings of Russia National Airline Award, May 31, 2021 Transport Clearing House, as the executive body for one of the world’s three “ settlement systems and the national settlement system for air transport, has been acting as a fundamental industry mechanism, supporting its stakeholders for the last 27 years. National Aviation Award ‘Wings of Russia’ is a prestigious industry event, and our participation in it is an honor and already a good tra- dition” — Tatyana Merkulova, Vice President and Commercial Director, TCH

We are honored and grateful for our fruitful partnership with ATO and are “ proud to be once again involved as sponsors at the prestigious annual Wings of Russia Award Ceremony. Now more than ever, it is important to celebrate achievements and focus on the positive trends within our industry, which has been one of the worst hit industries by the pandemic. And despite these excep- tionally challenging times, it is impressive how the Russian market has proven more resilient than many other regions in the world, recovering remarkably quickly and now emerging even stronger. We believe the key to great resilience in times of economic slowdown lies within diversifying traffic fl ws and we are confident that Embraer can contribute to an even more robust market with our product” — Cesar Pereira, Vice President, Embraer Commercial Aviation

4 | Wings of Russia National Airline Award, May 31, 2021 Nominees Last year resulted unprecedentedly challenging for commercial Aerofl t “ aviation globally. In 2020 Russian airlines demonstrated incredible AeroGeo resilience and capability to respond almost instantly to the changing Alrosa situation. Although the domestic traffic volumes have fully recovered ATRAN Aurora by now, in general the situation is far from normal, and the airlines are Azimuth facing yet more challenges ahead. Alfa­Strakhovanie as Russia’s lead- Azur Air Ikar ing aviation risks insurance provider, was delighted to meet up with the Italian Flight representatives of the country’s leading airlines on May 31. We believe IzhAvia that it is vitally important to duly appreciate the tremendous job the Rus- KrasAvia Naryan-Mar United Squadron sian airlines are doing right now” — Ilya Kabachnik, Deputy General NordStar Director for Aviation Insurance, AlfaStrakhovanie NordWind PANH RedWings RusLine S7 Airlines Sila Considering the unprecedentedly complicated situation the global Sirius Aero “ air transport industry has found itself in, the fact of continuing op- Smartavia erations and thus sustaining the transport integrity of the country is an Ural airlines Audience Utair example of the resilience of airlines and airports, their ability to adapt Utair helicopter services More than 250 participants took part in the event, the award ceremony was at- to any challenges. Winners of ‘Wings of Russia — 2020’ Award are real Uvt aero tended by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration for Support of the State Volga-Dnepr heroes, and their awards have an incredibly high value,” — Boris Rybak, Council Alexander Yurchik, Vice President of AEVT Boris Karpovich, as well as Ad- Yamal Airlines General Director of Infomost Consulting agency and one of the found- Yamal Helicopters visor to the General Director for Civil Aviation of the United Aircraft Corporation ers of the award Valery Okulov. The Expert Council noted the most successful and efficien market participants by the results of 2020.

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