Airline adds Irkutsk-Yakutsk route to its winter schedule and re-routes its Novosibirsk-Petropavlovsk Kamchatskii flight via Vladivostok (197 words)

Published: 11/23/2001

On 18th November, Siberia Airlines (Sibir) opened a new scheduled route from Irkutsk to Yakutsk, operating once per week on Sundays using the two class Tu-154M. The flight is being operated by the Eastern Siberian affiliate of Sibir, created in December 2000 out of Sayani Airlines. According to company spokesman Gleb Osokin, the aircraft first flight was almost full, with 103 passengers flying from Novosibirsk to Vladivostok and 133 from Vladivostok to Petropavlovsk Kamchatskii. The flight joins the 16 scheduled flights that the airline has out of Irkutsk in its winter schedule to Moscow (nine flights per week), Shenyang (two), Blagoveshchensk (two), Yakutsk (one) and a transit flight Novosibirsk - Irkutsk - Vladivostok (two). In winter 2001, Sibir plans to operate charter flights from Irkutsk to Thailand (Utopao and Phuket). Osokin added that on 31st October, Sibir started operating the route Novosibirsk - Petropavlovsk Kamchatskii via Vladivostok. In the past, the company operated via Blagoveshchensk and Osokin said that the new route was in response to customer passenger demand for the twice-weekly Tu-154M flight to be via Vladivostok.

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