News (May, 2004)

On May 28, Siberia Airlines opened two new regular flights to Russian southern cities. The company started flying from Moscow to Volgograd and opened a daily morning flight Rostov-on-Don - Moscow in addition to the existing afternoon flight.

Today Siberia Airlines is starting flights to Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. On May 20, regular flights to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, were launched from Novosibirsk. In addition to the flights bound for the capitals of the CIS countries, the company's summer timetable will include new regular flights to eastern Siberian cities. On May 21, flights from Novosibirsk to Chita began, while on June 2, the Novosibirsk - Blagoveshchensk flight will be launched.

On May 23, Siberia Airlines launched a new flight Bratsk - Moscow - Bratsk. The regular S7 707/708 flight is carried out twice a week with Tu-154 liners having economy and business classes. The plane leaves the Domodedovo airport (Moscow) on Thursdays and Sundays at 09:35 p.m. and departs from Bratsk on Mondays and on Fridays at 8:55 a.m.

Today Siberia Airlines made the first direct flight from Norilsk to Krasnodar. On May 20, the first direct flight Norilsk - Sochi will be launched. Siberia Airlines became the first Russian airline to perform flights from Norilsk to the southern Russian cities without interim landings. During the summer season, the new flights will be fulfilled once a week on Tu-154 planes.

In 2004, Siberia Airlines will significantly expand the summer flights' program from the Western Siberia cities Barnaul, Kemerov, Novokuznetsk, Omsk and Tomsk. Tu-154 airplanes will be based in most of these cities airports to provide for the intense summer traffic. The primary changes of the season will be the addition of regular flights to Anatolia (Turkey) and St. Petersburg. In addition, the number of flights bound for Germany and Southern Russian cities will increase as will the number of Moscow flights.