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Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:17
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Vladivostok Avia to resume flights to Japan's Niigata


VLADIVOSTOK, June 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The Vladivostok Avia Company will
resume regular flights from Vladivostok to the Japanese city of Niigata in
July 2011. The flights were suspended in March over the lack of passengers.
The first flight after the tragic events in Japan is scheduled on July
15, the Vladivostok Avia press service told Itar-Tass on Monday. The
flights will be made once a week and by an airliner Tu-204-300 on Fridays.
Seven flights are scheduled to make before August 26.
Before last March the Russian air company has made regular flights
from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Tokyo and Niigata. The
airliners Tu-204-300 and Airbus A320 from Vladivostok to the Narita
airport in Tokyo twice a week and from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Khabarovsk to
Tokyo.
After a strong earthquake the number of passengers has shrunk and the
air company had to suspend its flights from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk in
Niigata and to cut the number of flights from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Tokyo.

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