Weekly flights to Chinese island of Hainan are started from Ufa airport

UFA, 13 November 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Ksenia Kalinina/. Weekly flights to China open from the Ufa Airport. Charter flights to the Hainan Island will be performed by the Ikar airline, the press service of the capital's aviation center informs.

Flights will be operated from December 23, 2017 to March 24, 2018. Aircrafts on the Ufa - Haikou route will fly weekly on Saturdays at 23.45. The travel time will take about ten hours. The carrier intends to operate a Boeing 767-300 aircraft on the route, designed for 340 people.

As previously reported, in mid-September it became known that since November 2 direct flights to China, to the island of Hainan from the capital of our republic will be launched. It was planned that the flights will be carried out on Thursdays by VIM-Avia on Boeing 777, but in connection with the latest events the air carrier was replaced.