Demand for Regional Air Services from Ekaterinburg Growing

On the first day of winter, Ekaterinburg Koltsovo International Airport and angelo Airport-Hotel Ekaterinburg open the New Year season with the Christmas market in the domestic terminal, where until the mid-January you can buy popular Christmas gifts: symbols of the year, Christmas decorations, handmade gifts, kitchenware, toys and much more!  >>>

Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport airline marketing specialists held a number of key meetings with airlines’ representatives worldwide at the World Routes Forum, which took place in Berlin on 2–4 October 2011. As well, an important event took place in Ekaterinburg Airport’s booth there — the official signing of the agreement for the hosting in Ekaterinburg of the Routes Development Forum for the CIS Region on 24–26 June 2012.  >>>

Ekaterinburg Koltsovo is soon to become the first Russian airport to house haute couture boutiques: Versace, Ferragamo, and Emporio Armani. In a week, any international passenger of the airport will have an opportunity to buy clothes and accessories of the leading brands’ latest collections in the duty-free zone at “Italian” prices. An event unusual for an airport will take place in the four-star Angelo Airport Hotel on 21 October 2011, including an accessories collection show, a dinner all’italiana, and a discotheque by a fashionable night club of Ekaterinburg.  >>>

Ekaterinburg Koltsovo International Airport is waiting for an important event: in mid-November it will handle its 3 000 000th passenger of the year. It will be the first time for the last twenty years that Koltsovo shows such a result, quite high for a regional airport in this country. To commemorate this milestone event, Koltsovo Airport announces the “The Three-Millionth Passenger” action, according to which anyone who has checked in at Koltsovo in 2011 can participate in the drawing of pleasant prizes from the airport and its partners. The prizes will include tourist packages, air tickets, gift certificates a. o.  >>>

During the nine months of 2011, Ekaterinburg Koltsovo International Airport handled 2 548 280 passengers, a 23 percent increase year-on-year. The international passenger traffic grew by 17 percent (931 429 PAX), the domestic flow increased by 23 percent (1 394 107 PAX), and the increment of passengers on CIS flights was 54.6 percent (222 744 PAX). The number of aircraft departures was 15 064, which is 30.8 percent more than in the 9 months of the previous year. The airport handled 18 140 tonnes of freight and mail (+11.5%).  >>>

Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport has drawn up the preliminary results of the project implemented since 25 August 2011 jointly with the RusLine airline to develop regional air services between Ekaterinburg and a number of cities in Russia and Kazakhstan. During that time, 1792 passengers have been carried on 75 scheduled flight pairs on 10 airways. In coming days, Koltsovo is expecting to handle the 2000th passenger of the regional program; he or she will receive presents form the airport and the airline.   >>>

The launch in August 2011 of RusLine’s new regional air services from Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport has provided the people from Russia and Kazakhstan with the opportunities to travel from one region to another directly rather than via the capital airports. Thus, for example, one can use Koltsovo as the transfer airport when travelling from Magnitogorsk to Omsk and Tyumen, from Perm to Kazan, Krasnodar, Omsk, Orenburg, Tyumen and Bishkek, as well as from Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Orenburg, Tyumen, Omsk, Kostanay and Karagandy to a number of popular destinations1. The timetable is aimed at providing transfer passengers with minimum connection times.   >>>

Starting from 1 October 2011, it will be possible to fly from Ekaterinburg to the Chinese capital on any day of the week except Monday. The scheduled air services between the two cities offered by Air China (Tuesdays and Fridays) and Ural Airlines (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays) will be supplemented by S7 Airlines, which will operate scheduled flights on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  >>>

In summer of 2012, Ekaterinburg will play Host to the International Route Development Forum – Routes CIS – and this will be the first time for the event to be held in Russia. Traditionally the Event has been attended by decision makers from the world leading airports and largest airlines, and to be chosen Host of Routes CIS means a chance to showcase to the Forum guests from CIS countries, Europe and Asia economic, industrial, and tourism potential of the Host city and its airport. Routes gives an opportunity within a short amount of time to conduct a number of one-to-one meetings with business partners from all over the world. Over 17 years of its existence Routes has acquired a well deserved renown and has proved its claim of being the main aviation event worldwide which helps make connections between airlines and airports and announce new air services.  >>>

The construction of a modern Cargo Village, the setup of a new airport holding, and the regional air service development program — those were the three projects presented by Koltsovo Airport at INNOPROM 2011, International Ural Exhibition and Forum of Industry and Innovations, which was held in Ekaterinburg on 14–17 July. Furthermore, the interactive display, the focal point of the largest regional airport’s booth, ran movies familiarizing the visitors with the infrastructure development master plan of Ekaterinburg Airport and enabling them to compare Koltsovo’s performance with that of other Russian airports.  >>>