Neuigkeiten (Juli, 2003)

Siberia Airlines with «Siberian Association of Mutual Crediting» bank offers people, living in Tomsk, a new service, it is credit sale of tickets. The service is figured on that people who need to buy tickets promptly, but by any reason have no opportunity to pay full cost for their ticket at once.

From July 26 Siberia Airlines enlarges number of flights to Moscow from Novokuznetsk, operating for the first time evening flights along with morning ones. Every Tuesday and Saturday a flight No 194 will be operated by TU-154 provided with economic and business class, departure is at 8:10 p.m., arrival to Moscow is at 8:40 p.m. The plane will depart from the capital at 10:40 a.m. and will arrive to Novokuznetsk at 6:50 p.m. according to the local time.

On July 24 Siberia Airlines launches a new scheduled international flight S7 507/508 Irkutsk-Dalyan-Irkutsk. The flight to Dalyan will be operated once a week (every Thursday) by TU-154 plain provided with economic and business class. Departure from Irkutsk is at 2:30 p.m., arrival to Dalyan is at 4:30 p.m. Return flight will depart the same day at 6:00 p.m., arrival is at 10.10 p.m.

Today Siberia Airlines has received the telegram form Chinese aviation authorities, in which they, referring to military authorities, had forbidden the airline to operate the scheduled flight No 507 Irkutsk-Dalyan, to be performed today at 2:30 p.m. Thus, it became impossible to operate the preconcerted with Chinese authorities scheduled flight, and 83 passengers (including Chinese passengers) could not leave Irkutsk.

This week regional sales director of British Airways in East Europe Daniel Burkard visited the city office of Siberia Airlines in Novosibirsk.