S7 Airlines has switched to its winter flight schedule on 26-Oct-08. The schedule will remain in effect through 28-Mar-09. During the Winter season S7 Airlines will add a number of new routes and add new flights on existing routes.
During the winter period S7 Airlines will operate regular flights to 69 Russian and foreign cities in all.
After 17-Nov-08 S7 Airlines will be operated on Boeing and Airbus airplanes painted in the S7 livery*. During the winter season S7 Airlines will continue to operate the flights that were opened during the summer period of 2008 but not operated last winter. These routes are: Moscow-Dublin, Moscow-Krasnoyarsk, Moscow-Yekaterinburg, Moscow-Bratsk and Novosibirsk-Bishkek.
Beginning 23-Dec-08, S7 Airlines will begin to operate its own non-stop flight to Thailand on the Moscow-Bangkok route. The flights will be operated on new Boeing 767-300ER, which it acquired in Oc-08.
During the winter season, S7 Airlines will increase the frequency of the flights on the following routes: Moscow-Baku, Moscow-Kiev, Moscow-Chisinau, Moscow-Krasnodar, Moscow-Samara, Moscow-St. Petersburg, Moscow-Novy Urengoi, Moscow-Ufa, Moscow-Khabarovsk, Moscow-Vladivostok and Novosibirsk-Dubai (UAE).
S7 Airlines will be cooperating more closely with its foreign partners during the new season. The company has signed a code-sharing agreement with Air Berlin, thereby increasing the frequency of flights to Germany to seven flights a day. The flights will be operated on the Moscow-Frankfurt, Moscow-Dsseldorf, Moscow-Munich and Moscow-Hanover routes. And beginning in December, 2008 S7 Airlines and the Austrian airline Niki will begin joint operation of a Moscow-Vienna flight.
The S7 Airlines winter charter flight program includes the traditional routes Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt), Dubai (UAE), Barcelona, Alicante, Tenerife (Spain), Ovda (Israel), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Salzburg (Austria), Larnaca (Cyprus), Chambery and Nantes (France). Already operating flights to Rimini and Ancona, S7 will add a third Italian city—Turin.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 27-Oct-08
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S7 Airlines switches to Winter flight Schedule 
