OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2011. "Air traffic organizing between the U.S. and the Far East" — such a report made by the representatives of the airline at the 16th annual meeting of the Russian American Pacific Partnership (RAPP). Forum traditionally has been an important platform for discussion of topical issues of bilateral relations, building plans for economic cooperation and promotion of promising ideas to regions of the Far East and U. S. West Coast, reported the press-centre of Vladivostok Air.

First Deputy General Director Dmitry Tyschuk and the airline representative in the United States Mark Dudley appeared at the meeting in behalf of Vladivostok Air. Their joint presentation aroused the greatest interest among the audience, receiving cheers applause at a time when it was announced Vladivostok Air intention about opening direct flights from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Anchorage. This is a priority, relevance and strategic decision will strengthen the position of Vladivostok Air in the world.

The airline plans a flight from the middle of next summer till the second decade of September 2012. At the moment there are two options for a possible schedule, but for the convenience of passengers, flight from Anchorage to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky should arrive in the morning. Now for the successful implementation air flights it is considering the issue of alternate aerodromes in Magadan and Anadyr, improving infrastructure of airports and the extension of working hours in the morning and evening for one hour.

Russia and the United States have a lot of things that they could offer to each other. As Mark Dudley said, in his part of the presentation, Kamchatka is an amazing place, about which Americans need to know. Mark actively promotes nature of Kamchatka in America, with an emphasis on this type of tourism as an Adventure Travel. This is the fastest growing type of tourism on the planet, which includes ecotourism, cultural tourism and active tourism. Americans know that it is good fishing, beautiful scenery, abundant wildlife, volcanoes and much more in Kamchatka.

In turn, Russian residents send their children to study in the U.S. go to Disney World, participate in conferences. "If you have colleagues, friends, partners in the U.S. — invite them to come — said Mark. — When did you take a delegation from the sister-cities last time? I’m sure that Kamchatka will attend more than a million tourists a year. The most important thing is to do everything possible so that every visitor has returned home with good impressions. That he would told with admiration to all his friends and familiars about his journey, he would wrote in his blog about the wonderful nature, unique culture and Russian hospitality, acquaintance of which begins on board of Vladivostok Air.