OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2007. S7 Airlines continues to improve and expand its route network and on 22 December completed its first Moscow-Vladivostok-Moscow round trip, reported the press-centre of S7 Airlines.

The air route will be used jointly with Vladivostok Aviation. The S7 flights will be flown three times a week in comfortable Airbus A310 jumbo jets. Sales of tickets on the S7-107/108 route have already begun at all ticket counters.

The launch of non-stop flights from Moscow to Vladivostok was made possible thanks to our successful expansion of cooperation with Vladivostok Aviation, which began last spring, when the first code-sharing agreements were signed on the routes from Vladivostok, Irkutsk and Sochi to Moscow.

New code-sharing agreements also took effect from the beginning of winter 2007-2008, and passengers of S7 and Vladivostok Aviation now have additional opportunities to fly from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The two airlines currently have an interline agreement for electronic tickets.

“It’s important for residents of the Far East and Primorye to have reliable and affordable air service to and from the European part of Russia,” notes Alexander Zyubr, General Representative of S7 Airlines in the Eastern region. “Uniting the capabilities of the two airlines will make it possible to offer passengers a greatly expanded list of destinations at affordable prices and the ability to select the destination airport in Moscow.”

In September 2007, S7 Airlines received an official notification of the IATA about the airline’s inclusion in the registry of operators of the IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) and became the second airline in Russia to successfully complete the full procedure of the international audit for conformity with the respective safety standards. The airline’s inclusion in the registry of operators who have completed IOSA is recognition of S7 Airlines in the world aviation community as a safe carrier that meets the strictest international requirements.