Domodedovo has seen marked rise in number of carriers using the airport

Published: 9/23/1999

Between September 1998 and August 1999, the list of operators flying from Domodedovo Airport has increased by 10 more airlines. In April 1999, Pulkovo Airlines started the route St Petersburg - Domodedovo - St Petersburg. It began flying twice a week in May and since July has added three additional scheduled flights to Krasnodar, Mineralny Vody and Sochi. In early summer, new routes from Domodedovo were started by Kaliningradavia (Aktau-Omsk-Volgograd) and Vnukovo Airlines (Anapa-Simferopol-Sochi). Since May, Vladivostok Avia(www.concise.org 16th June 1999) has flown twice weekly on the route Vladivostok-Abakan-Domodedovo-Abakan-Vladivostok and plans to add another weekly flight. Dnepravia, a state owned Ukrainian airline based in Dnepropetrovsk has been operating flights to Moscow, three times a week since June using Yak-42s. Dnepravia switched all of its flights to Domodedovo in July giving the airport a new route. Similarly, in May, GTK Rossiya started servicing the route Domodedovo-Magadan-Domodedovo twice a week. From August 4th, Yamal(www.concise.org 20th September 1999)has been performing flights to Novy Urengoi three times a week. In addition, between September 1998 and August 1999, Domodedovo concluded 16 contracts with charter flight airlines.

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