Ural Airlines, a Russian airline based in Yekaterinburg, said that it would launch new routes to Thailand and China. The Russian government has authorized new Yekaterinburg-Beijing-Phuket service three times a week, a Yekaterinburg-Phuket flight five times a week, an Irkutsk-Bangkok flight five times a week, and an Irkutsk-Khabarovsk flight three times a week.
Dates and rates will be announced shortly.