S7 Airlines Boosts Winter Links to Beijing

Russian carrier S7 Airlines is to increase the frequency of its flights to Beijing from three Russian cities from the end of October. The oneworld alliance member will double capacity from Khabarovsk with a second weekly flight and introduce two additional weekly rotations from Irkutsk and Novosibirsk this winter when compared to last year’s schedule. The flights will all be operated using Airbus A320 Family Jets.

Alongside these three routes, S7 Airlines also offers links to the Chinese capital from Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok. It is currently the largest carrier flying into Beijing Capital International Airport from Russia, although Aeroflot Russian Airlines, Air China and Hainan Airlines all offer more weekly seat capacity by operating widebody equipment on some of their services.

S7 Airlines competes directly with Hainan Airlines on the Irkutsk – Beijing and Novosibirsk – Beijing routes holding dominating52 per cent and 68 per cent shares of the 33,000 passenger and 40,000 passenger O&D traffic, respectively. On the Khabarovsk – Beijing link it competes with Vladivostok Air.

Schedule:

Irkutsk – Beijing
S7509 IKT0200 – 0345PEK 319 x247
S7510 PEK0435 – 0840IKT 319 x247

Khabarovsk – Beijing
S7515 KHV0110 – 0120PEK 320 26
S7516 PEK0210 – 0805KHV 320 26

Novosibirsk – Beijing
S7863 OVB0225 – 0750PEK 320 35
S7873 OVB2345 – 0510+1PEK 320 x246
S7874 PEK0605 – 0955OVB 320 x357
S7864 PEK0905 – 1255OVB 320 35