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Mar 21, 2012 (newstodate): Russia's enclave by the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad is seeing its airline connections growing in summer 2012.
News at Kaliningrad Khabrovo Airport include SAS, starting flights from Copenhagen from March 25, 2012 as well as Uzbekistan Airways from the same date with its second weekly rotation from Tashkent.
In June 2012, the Ukrainian carrier Aerosvit will launch flights to Kaliningrad from Simferopol and Odessa, and also from June the Belarus carrier Belavia will connect Kaliningrad with Gomel and Grodno, in Russia.
Kaliningrad Airport will thus have direct flights to Moscow, St Petersburg, Riga, Minsk, Gomel, Kiev, Simferopol, Odessa, Grodno, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Tashkent.
This is still a far cry from 2004, when private investors set up KD Avia to turn Kaliningrad into a hub in a new traffic system connecting 30 West European and 30 Russian, CIS destinations.
The venture collapsed from the end of 2008 as the carrier run into financial troubles with a fleet of 19 Boeing 737-300 aircraft and orders for delivery of 25 Airbus A319 aircraft.
KD Avia eventually folded its wings on September 1, 2009, leaving the airport in a temporary void.
News at Kaliningrad Khabrovo Airport include SAS, starting flights from Copenhagen from March 25, 2012 as well as Uzbekistan Airways from the same date with its second weekly rotation from Tashkent.
In June 2012, the Ukrainian carrier Aerosvit will launch flights to Kaliningrad from Simferopol and Odessa, and also from June the Belarus carrier Belavia will connect Kaliningrad with Gomel and Grodno, in Russia.
Kaliningrad Airport will thus have direct flights to Moscow, St Petersburg, Riga, Minsk, Gomel, Kiev, Simferopol, Odessa, Grodno, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Tashkent.
This is still a far cry from 2004, when private investors set up KD Avia to turn Kaliningrad into a hub in a new traffic system connecting 30 West European and 30 Russian, CIS destinations.
The venture collapsed from the end of 2008 as the carrier run into financial troubles with a fleet of 19 Boeing 737-300 aircraft and orders for delivery of 25 Airbus A319 aircraft.
KD Avia eventually folded its wings on September 1, 2009, leaving the airport in a temporary void.