UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2011. Thai authorities have expressed an interest in organizing a direct scheduled flight from Bangkok to Yekaterinburg and have already made proposals to this extent to a number of local airlines, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin was informed by Thailand’s Ambassador in Russia Chalermpon Tanchitt.

‘We drew up the proposal regarding this direct flight a few months ago and we sent it to three air carriers, namely,Thai Airways, Bangkok Airlines и AirAsia,’ the Ambassador said.

The official explained Thai Airways said they couldn’t provide an airplane to service the flight at the moment, the other two airlines are still considering the proposal.

‘We’ll go back to this issue when we are back in Moscow,’ the Ambassador observed.