Bashkortostan plans to launch permanent flights to south of Russia

UFA, 23 August 2018. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. The State Transport Committee RB is discussing options for launching year-round flights from Ufa to Sochi, Anapa, and Simferopol. As reported by the department, it is planned to include them in the subsidy program, so the transportation fares should be low.

Flights to Rostov-on-Don (prices 4 thousand - 7 thousand rubles) and to Krasnodar (prices 5 thousand - 8 thousand rubles) launched in April this year, showed a load above 80% in the first months of work.

For 2019 - 2021 the amount of co-financing of regional air transportation from the republican budget is 101.4 million rubles.

The program includes such destinations as Kirov, Orenburg, Cheboksary, Izhevsk (State Unitary Enterprise "Airport Orenburg"); Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm (UTair); Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don (the "Azimut" airline).