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Feb 22, 2008 (newstodate): Recent air transport agreement negotiations between Russia and Finland have paved the road for new routes and more traffic between the two markets.
As a result, Finnair is planning to begin scheduled flights next autumn from Helsinki to Yekaterinburg, located in the Urals, initially offering three weekly services.
The two parties have also agreed that the number of Finnair and Aeroflot joint flights to and from Moscow will double in April 2008 to four per day, and that the number of St. Petersburg flights operated by Finnair in cooperation with the airline Rossiya will rise from 20 to 22 per week, riosing to 28 flights per week from 2009.
As a result, Finnair is planning to begin scheduled flights next autumn from Helsinki to Yekaterinburg, located in the Urals, initially offering three weekly services.
The two parties have also agreed that the number of Finnair and Aeroflot joint flights to and from Moscow will double in April 2008 to four per day, and that the number of St. Petersburg flights operated by Finnair in cooperation with the airline Rossiya will rise from 20 to 22 per week, riosing to 28 flights per week from 2009.