‘Finnair normally operates its Yekaterinburg-Helsinki flight three times a week, that is, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The flights scheduled for Monday, April 19, and for Wednesday, April 21, have already been called off. The Friday flight, however, is still on the timetable for the time being,’ deputy head of Finnair’s Yekaterinburg representation Vladimir Krivozhikhin informed UrBC. ‘The passengers are normally informed about a cancellation via telephone. They are usually offered to use another flight, a transfer one, or they can refuse to travel altogether, in which case Finnair

Following a massive volcanic eruption in Iceland that made flying over Northern Europe impossible, Ural Airlines had to postpone its Moscow-Rimini and Yekaterinburg-Prague-Yekaterinburg flights. One of the carrier’s planes bound for Rimini had to land in Vienna, the airline’s press officer said to the UrBC reporters. ‘We have just been notified that things are now getting back to normal and that the European skies are open for the planes once again. Our U6-701 flight is to be operated at 9 PM on Monday; we are also coordinating a number of chartered flights from Moscow to Rimini at the

Air China Limited cancelled its latest Beijing-Yekaterinburg flight. According to Koltsovo Airport’s announcement board, the plane from Beijing was supposed to have landed in Yekaterinburg at 10:25 PM on Monday. Meanwhile, Finnair Oyj and Czech Airlines have also called off their flights from Yekaterinburg to Helsinki and Prague, respectively.

Finnair Oyj and Czech Airlines called off their flights from Yekaterinburg to Helsinki and Prague, respectively. According to Koltsovo Airport’s announcement board, the first planes were supposed to have left Yekaterinburg at 5:55 AM and 4:30 AM on April 19, 2010.

The losses of Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Enterprise reached about 7 billion RUR last year, of which 6 billion RUR was actually the previous years’ accumulated loss, the company’s General Director Oleg Sienko announced at a recent briefing, RIA Novosti reports. ‘All in all, our losses have amounted to something like 7 billion RUR, that is, over 6.5 billion RUR worth of the earlier years’ loses aggravated by our inability to pay off the body of our loans. In fact, we took out our loans rather expensively at the time, and now we have to pay off over 8 billion RUR worth of loans