New flights for Bratsk Airlines (140 words)

Published: 8/14/2000

On 6th August, Bratsk Airlines started a scheduled service between Bratsk and Domodedovo Airport in Moscow. The twice-weekly flights using a Tu-154 will operate on Tuesday and Sunday, the latter non-stop, with the Tuesday flight stopping in Yakaterinburg. For Domodedovo it is another success in luring a regional carrier away from Vnukovo Airport, which was previously used by Bratsk for its Moscow flights. This week the airport has also seen the opening of the AviaExpressCruise and Donetsk Airlines joint route to Donetsk in the Ukraine, announced earlier in July. Its plans to attract major foreign carriers for the meantime however, appear to have come to nothing despite some encouraging statements by Vitaly Shakhanov of Domodedovo Airport late last year that Air France and Lufthansa were looking at the airport, which has recently opened its new international terminal.

Article ID: 1992