‘All price offers of Ural Airlines will go down by 5% to 7% in the first quarter of 2007,’ says the Commercial Director of Ural Airlines Kirill Skuratov.

‘The company has some other pleasant surprises in store for New Year. The Christmas ticket sale will begin at the beginning of December; over the period of December 10 to December 30, all tickets for flights to the cities of Russia and the NIS to be performed between January 15 and March 15 will drop in price by 70%. As for the tickets for Yekaterinburg-Moscow flights, they have already become much cheaper. The price comes to 3,450 RUR (including the fuel fee). These prices have to do with the global reduction in aviation kerosene prices as well as with the carrier’s fleet renovation (replacing the obsolete planes with Airbus ones that are more fuel-efficient than its Russian counterparts,’ Mr Skuratov said.