News (March, 2007)

From 2 April 2007, the timetable for S7’s S7-341/342 Moscow - Kurgan - Moscow service is changing. With the new timetable, flights will be convenient for business passengers needing to spend a full working day in Moscow. In addition, the new time of arrival at Domodedovo will make it convenient for passengers to catch S7’s connecting flights to Germany, southern Russia and other CIS countries – which is especially relevant with summer approaching.

From today, S7 is introducing extra daily flights between Perm and Moscow. The S7 309/310 service will operate on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, departing from Moscow at 17:40 and arriving in Perm at 21:45, and departing from Perm at 22:30 and arriving in Moscow 22:40 (local times).

With the aim of making its fleet more efficient, S7 plans to stop using all its Il-86 aircraft from 2009. This is one of the implementation stages of our strategic plan to revamp and modernize our fleet over the next 7 years. As part of this programme, we are looking at the possibility of acquiring new modern airliners, both Russian and foreign.

With the switch to summer time in Russia, S7’s summer timetable has come into force. We’re offering an even greater choice than last summer: 10% more flights, with over 1000 flights a week at the height of the season. Our summer timetable features around a dozen new routes, and we now offer scheduled flights to 73 destinations, mostly from S7’s hub airports in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk and Perm.

15 March 2007 sees the first anniversary of the appearance of the new S7 Airlines brand in the Russian airline industry. Exactly a year ago, flight announcements at all airports served by the airline told passengers that Sibir (Siberia) Airlines was to be renamed S7 Airlines.