New routes for Russia’s S7 Airlines, the Novosibirsk-based airline is about to launch services from Surgut to Novosibirsk, Ufa and Samara with Airbus A320 aircraft. The carrier has said it will operate a three times a week schedule Novosibirsk-Surgut, twice a week Samara-Surgut service and Surgut-Ufa would be a weekly service. All are expected to start at the end of April.
Indian domestic start-up airlines face a two and half year delay before it can start international services.
The international ambitions of Indian start up carrier, Vistara and other domestic carriers face a minimum two and half year delay before they can even hope for launching international services. This is accordingly to the new revised route dispersal guidelines being worked on up by the Indian Civil Aviation Ministry. These plans are expected to be approved when they go before Cabinet shortly.