‘S7 Airlines started selling tickets for Yekaterinburg-Moscow and Yekaterinburg-Sochi flights on July 16, 2008. Both flights take off in Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg; to make this happen, we’ve negotiated with the airport and were given some confirmed time slots,’ S7 Airlines’ press officer Irina Kolesnikova said to UrBC.

A little earlier, however, the Federal Antimonopoly Service reported they were considering suing Koltsovo airport for its reluctance to sign a slot agreement with S7 Airlines.

‘We’ve settled things down and are planning to launch flights from Yekaterinburg as soon as this very season,’ Irina Kolesnikova added.