Starting October 30, 2008, Vladivostok Avia will no longer be operating Yekaterinburg-Shardzha flights to the United Arab Emirates. This means only two flights have been operated by the carrier (on October 23, 2008 and October 27, 2008) since the destination has been initially offered this season. The passenger load is reported to have been very low.

Experts believe this failure was brought about by the wrong choice of the company’s development direction.

‘There are already more than plenty of flights from Yekaterinburg to the United Arab Emirates at the moment,’ says More Travel’s Commercial Director Dmitriy Kushev.

Vladivostok Avia used to say that their first flight to the UAE would take off on October 20, 2008 but the flight was actually postponed till October 23, 2008.