OREANDA-NEWS. October 08, 2010. Ural Airlines begins to operate direct weekly flights between Yekaterinburg and Kazan.

The direct air service between the Ural region and the largest industrial and financial centre of Tatarstan will foster the development of economic, cultural and business relations between the two regions, and contribute to increased mobility of business community.

It will be a weekly flight with a comfortable Airbus A320 having a spacious cabin both in the economy and business class. The first U6 231 flight will take place on Monday, starting from Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport at 4:05* in the morning. At 3:30 am local time, the airplane will arrive at Kazan International Airport. The return flight U6 232 to Yekaterinburg will take off on Tuesday, 5 October, at 5:30* am. It arrives at Koltsovo at 8:50* in the morning (this schedule will remain in force until 19 October 2010). From 27 October 2010 onwards, U6 232 will depart from Kazan at 01:00* am and come to Koltsovo at 04:20* am. U6 231 will retain the initial timings. The travelling time with allowance for the lag time will be one hour and twenty minutes.

Beside a high service level for passengers, Ural Airlines offers connections in Ekaterinburg. There will be convenient connections to Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Sochi, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Vladivostok and Chita.

The fare between Yekaterinburg and Kazan (single, either way) is from 5 200 rubles.