Transaero’s new itinerary will be the only scheduled offering between the two cities and will represent the first scheduled link since Yakutia ended a short-lived Boeing 757 operation on the route in January 2014 after just three months of service. Prior to that S7 Airlines had served the route in 2012 and Vladivostok Air between July 2008 and October 2011.
Red Wings has committed to receive three aircraft on lease from the manufacturer during the first half of this year. They will be operated by the carrier under an initial three year lease term but this is open to extension subject to success of the new regional expansion.
During the past couple of days we have been in conversation with many delegates during Routes Silk Road in Tbilisi, Georgia and here are some of the snippets of information we picked up from our discussions.
Qatar Airways is to introduce a non-stop link to the popular Indonesian leisure destination of Bali this summer. The direct link to Denpasar will reduce journey times to a destination that has seen growing demand from across the Qatar Airways network over the past couple of years.