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Old Feb 21, 2008, 7:37 am
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mosburger
 
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Originally Posted by Pteropous
According to YLE news, Finnish and Russian authorities have today agreed upon an adjustment to the bilateral air transport agreement, which will allow Finnair to start flights to the city of Yekaterinburg in Ural region coming Autumn.

Finnair has been planning this route for quite some time already (I think they intended to open it already in 2006). Thanks to the new air transport agreement, also frequencies to Moscow and St Petersburg will increase.
Yekaterinburg is a step in the right direction. Next maybe Nizhny Novgorod?

Also wondering how those Toyota executives and London bankers are enjoying the new LCC seats and Embraers on their Russia flights?
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