Airline plans additional flights and new tourist business (192 words)

Published: 8/6/2001

Krasnoyarsk Airlines (KrasAir) is planning to increase flights to the Kemerovo region, according to Svetlana Volodina, spokesperson for the airline. The airline currently operates four flights a week from Moscow - Kemerovo, one flight a week from Blagoveshchensk - Kemerovo - Moscow and one flight a week on the Kemerovo - Omsk - Hannover - Frankfurt route. In its winter schedule for 2001 - 2002, however, KrasAir plans to include both Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk in its transit flights schedule, in order to improve connections with flights to the Far East and Russia's north from Krasnoyarsk Airport. The airline also plans to schedule charter flights from Kemerovo and develop its own tourism business, to compete with the Moscow and Novosibirsk tour operators who dominate the market. It intends to open a local affiliate of its JV with Krasnoyarsk-based travel agency, Dyula-tour. On 1st August, Boris Abramovich, General Director of KrasAir, met Aman Tuleyev, Governor of Kemerovo region, to discuss co-operation between the company and the region. According to Volodina, Tuleyev awarded Abramovich with a medal for his contribution to the development of air transport in the region.

Article ID: 2688