OREANDA-NEWS. November 25, 2010. Vnukovo International is a socially responsible corporate citizen with nearly a 70-year history.

The considerations of air travel safety and security, and ongoing improvements in the quality of service and comfort levels the Airport offers its passengers have always been and will continue to remain at the forefront of our corporate policy.

Thus, assuming the inherent social responsibility for the residents of communities located next to or around the Airport, both within the Moscow city limits and farther out in the Moscow Area and taking into account the fact that many of those residents also happen to be the Airport's regular passengers and employees, as well as with a view to addressing a number of citizens' requests:

the Airport announces its plans to introduce - as of May, 2011 - a total ban on the operations of the noisiest aircraft types such as the Tupolev-134 and -154B and the Ilyushin-86. The Tupolev-154m model aircraft shall continue to operate subject to an evening/nighttime curfew.

This decision has been made by the Airport's top management in view of the above aircraft types and models' significantly affecting the acoustic situation in the communities surrounding the Airport.

The decision also takes very much into account and is in part predicated on the fact that the majority of Vnukovo Intl's airline tenants have been actively involved - in the course of the past few years - in a concerted effort to rejuvenate their aircraft fleets, that calls for the phasing-out of the least fuel-efficient and the noisiest of aircraft types and models and their replacement with the modern home- and foreign-made AC types with improved fuel burn and reduced operating noise levels and footprints.

The Vnukovo ATC Center has also been actively contributing to the overall reduction in aircraft noise through optimized planning of air routes, flight paths, approach and departure circuits and patterns.