In June, Irkutsk expects a notable expansion of air service, several airlines will launch new flights and increase flight frequency. Transaero will begin flying from Domodedovo twice a week, S7 will resume flights to Beijing, Tashkent and from Novosibirsk, and add another Moscow flight. In addition, new routes via Omsk will appear, and MIAT and Hainan Airlines will strengthen international routes from Irkutsk.
The air carrier Transaero is planning to organize flights to Irkutsk from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport twice a week starting June 1 (on Mondays and Saturdays) on Boeing 767 and Tu-214 aircraft.The airline S7 plans to resume flights that were already popular with the residents and visitors of Irkutsk in 2008 from the second half of June: there will be flights to Beijing twice a week, and also to Tashkent twice a week. In addition, one more flight will be introduced from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport (currently, S7 aircraft fly from Moscow with a frequency of once a day). Also from the second half of June, S7 will resume flights to Irkutsk from Novosibirsk.
The airline KamMinVody - Avia is also preparing innovations: in June it will begin operating the Anapa - Omsk - Irkutsk - Omsk - Anapa flight. At the moment, this airline is considering flights from Irkutsk to Krasnodar and Sochi.
The Mongolian airline MIAT announced its intention to organize flights from Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar starting June 20. And on June 8, Hainan Airlines is once again increasing the number of flights from Beijing to three per week.