Airlines seek to maintain intra regional flights (150 words)

Published: 1/5/2001

Nizhni Novgorod Airlines is struggling for profitability, following the conclusion of it's restructuring agreement and has narrowly avoided strikes before the year-end. At such a moment, Nizhni Novgorod Airport (Aeroflot's partner in Aeroflot Nizhni Novgorod), along with local airline KDO-Avia and Samara Airlines, has created an alliance aimed at keeping the air routes in the Volga Federal District open. Other airlines participating in the alliance include; Veliky Novgorod; the Sokol aircraft plant; Bashkirskiye Airlines; and Saranskiye Airlines. The alliance was announced on the 20th of December, with little detail of how it will operate, other than the suggestion that the alliance will use a fleet of Yal-40 and An-24. As yet, it is unclear whether this development is part of the consolidation plan for the Volga airlines, discussed in the latter part of 2000, under the auspices of Deputy Minister of Transportation, Pavel Rozhkov and former Prime Minister and currently Presidential representative Sergey Kirienko.

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