OREANDA-NEWS. On 01 April 2008 was announced, that the summer schedule of flights of airline Rossiya which will operate till October, 25th, 2008 came into force. The main difference of the new schedule - increase in quantity of flights traditional for this season in popular tourist directions and more active use of foreign technics that speaks scale modernization of Rossiya’ air fleet.

In comparison with the schedule of last year on a rout map there is Tenerife. Flights to this island of the Canary archipelago is planned to carry out weekly on Boeing 767-300 which since September will be involved at realisation of charter flights to Bangkok (Thailand), in Goa (India) and on resort Sanja (island Hainan, China). Among new tourist directions of Rossiya: Heraklion, Corfu, Rhodes and other islands of Greece. Considering the raised demand, the quantity of regular flights to Barcelona (Spain) - to eight in a week will be increased.

Within the limits of summer navigation Rossiya opens a number of new directions of flights on space of the CIS: from St.-Petersburg in Osh (Kirghizia) and from Kaliningrad to Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). Renewal of regular flights between St.-Petersburg and Tbilisi (Georgia) becomes pleasant news to passengers. Since April, 28th flights will be carried out every week on Mondays.

On domestic routes the quantity of flights from St.-Petersburg to Kaliningrad, Krasnodar and Murmansk where Rossiya also carries out flights from Moscow is increased. On a demanded airline St.-Petersburg - Sochis are entered the new day flights which are carried out, including, and by more capacious planes Il-86.

Possibilities of passengers of airline extend at the expense of cooperation with partners, in particular, from Aeroflot. A code-share agreement with this air carrier assume an exchange of blocks of places at flights in directions St.-Petersburg - Moscow and Moscow - Baku. Thanks to cooperation of Rossiya with other airlines flights to Warsaw, Madrid, Minsk, Riga, Zurich, Seoul and many other international points are accessible to passengers.

In action flights from St.-Petersburg in key European directions will be carried out on comfortable airliners Boeing 737-500, Airbus A319, and also Airbus A320 which will start to arrive in airline park the next months. The foreign technics all is more actively used and for flights in Russia - in particular, on a direction St.-Petersburg - Moscow where planes Tu-134 are completely deduced from operation.

During a season introduction of E-ticket which is applied today practically on all European directions of Rossiya flights will come to the end. In the near future there is possible an acquisition of the electronic ticket for airline flights through an official site www.rossiya-airlines.com.