Flights of Red Wings and North Wind airlines from Kemerovo to Yekaterinburg and Chita have been cancelled. Andrey Panov, Deputy Governor of Kuzbass on this issue reported on your Telegram channel.
“There are two aspects that have been cancelled. This is the route of the Red Wings airline Kemerovo-Yekaterinburg, valid until May 13, and the flight of the North Wind airline Kemerovo-Chita, scheduled from May 1, ”continues.
Panov writes that the reduction of these routes is due to low demand. At the same time, he referred to an article in the newspaper Izvestia that talked about the cancellation of airline flights against the background of reducing subsidies from the federal budget.
As before knowledgeable Subsidies for the program of performing regional flights, bypassing Moscow for 2023, were reduced from 9 billion to 7.5 billion rubles, and airlines began to cancel flights, the newspaper Izvestia reported. According to the experts interviewed by the newspaper, the reduction in funding is not that insignificant, so there will be no significant negative consequences.
Panov noted that the rest of the scheduled flights are fully operational. From June 3, Pobeda Airlines will start operating flights from Kemerovo to Moscow.