OREANDA-NEWS. On 16 February 2009 was announced, that Ural Airlines is to start operating its new Saint Petersburg-Kulyab flights on February 18, 2009. The flights are to be operated once a week, that is, every Wednesday.

The airplane takes off in Saint Petersburg at 12.15 PM and arrives in Kulyab at 7.10 PM. The cheapest tickets are available for ?235 (plus the fuel fee). Then, the plane leaves Kulyab at 8.40 PM and arrives in Saint Petersburg at 12.05 AM on Thursday. The cheapest tickets are available for ?230 (plus the fuel fee). The departure and arrival time is local, the company’s press officer reports. Once the carrier acquired more A 320 airbuses, Ural Airlines started to expand on the number and location of various destinations for flights taking off in Russian cities other than Yekaterinburg. For instance, the airline launched a new Bratsk-Moscow flight in the fall of 2008 and Novosibirsk-Samara and Novosibirsk-Krasnoyarsk flights in February 2009.

What is more, Ural Airlines is to operate its first Novosibirsk-Moscow flight on March 1, 2009.