Koltsovo to Provide Technical Stop and Refueling for Vladivostok Air
Ekaterinburg Koltsovo International Airport made an agreement with Vladivostok Air in April, under which it will refuel the airline’s planes flying from Moscow Vnukovo Airport to Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. It is connected with the overhaul, and shortening, of Vnukovo’s Runway 2 (the runways of Vnukovo intersect) resulting in a limited MTOW. The return flights from Vladivostok and Khabarovsk will continue to be non-stop.
“Ekaterinburg’s geographical location and our time-tested partnership relations have been major factor in Vladivostok Air choosing our airport as the refueling point on this long route,” says Koltsovo Airport General Director Evgeniy Chudnovskiy. “Our competitive maintenance and fueling prices have marked our airport out from this country’s other regional airports.”
According to the schedule, the Airbus A-330-300 plane flying to Vladivostok or Khabarovsk with a full load will land at Koltsovo daily at eleven pm for 40 to 60 minutes of maintenance and refueling. The regulating Russian documents do not require deplanement of passengers in such cases. When the airplane is not fully loaded and can fly on without refueling, it will not stop at Koltsovo. The airline will follow that pattern of flights from Moscow to the Russian Far East from late April until the completion of the overhaul at Vnukovo. Koltsovo has provided the slots until this 15 July and will prolong them if necessary.
Vladivostok Air has been collaborating with Ekaterinburg International Airport for over eight years now, operating scheduled flights from Ekaterinburg to Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and Hanoi.
Date modified:
26.04.2011