Ural Airlines reduced the fuel fees for chartered flights the carrier operates to Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh due to the jet fuel getting cheaper. As far as Yekaterinburg-Hurghada and Yekaterinburg-Sharm El Sheikh flights are concerned, the fuel fee will drop by 24% and will reach $19.5 per passenger ($29 for A320 and Tu154 M airplanes, $10 for IL 86 aircraft) instead of the former $25.5. In terms of flights that take off in Perm, the fuel fee has gone down by 12.5% and now comes to $28, the airline’s press officer reports.

In addition, the company reduced the fees for Yekaterinburg-Antalya and Chelyabinsk-Antalya flights on October 9, 2008 by 19% and 15%, respectively (?24for A320 and Tu154 M airplanes, ?23 for IL 86 aircraft), so fees came to ?23.5 and ?23.

‘We last decreased the fuel fees for flights to Turkey and Egypt at the end of September. Despite the financial crisis, we are not afraid of doing so and we react quickly to the price changes in the airports,’ the company’s CFO Elena Ichkurina said to UrBC.