Dexter, an airline which recently started operating flights from Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport, has had to cancel six flights already. For one, flight 9615 from Yekaterinburg to Perm was called off today; the plane was supposed to have left Koltsovo Airport at 4:55 PM. In addition, flight 9629 to Tyumen was also canceled; the plane’s original departure time was 9:10 PM. Finally, flight 9655 to Magnitogorsk (departure time 4:25 AM on December 25, 2010) was canceled as well. What is more, the air carrier called off flights 9632 Kurgan-Yekaterinburg (arrival time 3:55 PM), 9616

228 flights will be operated from Yekaterinburg during the upcoming winter holiday break, including 99 scheduled flights to eight various destinations and 129 tourist flights to fifteen destinations. Koltsovo Airport’s press service reports most flights are bound for Hurghada (thirty flights altogether), Bangkok (twenty flights), Sharm El Sheikh (nineteen flights), and Dubai (seventeen flights). Koltsovo’s timetable also contains information about nine flights to Phuket, six flights to Goa, four flights (for each destination) to Munich, Denpasar, and Barcelona, three flights (for each town)

Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) and Rosnano, the state-run corporation, are going to launch their joint venture in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Region, on December 28, 2010. The JV is to be founded upon Sinara Pipe Plant. Rosnano Chairman of the Board Anatoly Chubais and other company representatives as well as a delegation of executives from Atomenergomash headed by the company’s General Director Vladimir Kashchenko and TMK BOD Chairman Dmitri Pumpyansky and the rest of the management are expected to attend the opening ceremony. OOO TMK-INOX, the joint venture is planning to deal in

Yekaterinburg’s international airport was allowed to host A340 and Boeing 777 aircraft and their modifications on its premises. The provision to this extents was signed by Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko recently. What is more, the airport can now let in planes of the types Fokker 50, Saab 340, Pilatus PC-12 and their modifications; these airplane types are usually used for local area flights. The permission to let in certain aircraft types was put down in Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport’s Operation & Maintenance Certificate and sent out to all the parties

The international payment system VISA rounded up yet another lottery tour recently. The lottery, commonly known as Try It-You’ll Love It, is open for participation between May 20, 2010 and December 31, 2010. OAO METCOMBANK joined in the special offer. To win one of the 3,000 prizes (3,000 RUR in cash each), VISA cardholders only need to use their card to pay for products and services. The lottery’s third tour ran between September 1, 2010 and October 31, 2010, with ten METCOMBANK customers getting 3,000 RUR onto their bank card accounts. The fourth tour is coming to its close at the moment