You're reading: AeroSvit to service 6 routes itself by late January

Kyiv-based AeroSvit Airline has introduced a temporary schedule of flights from January 16 to January 31, 2013, according to which the airline will operate six routes: four international ones and two domestic, reads a press release of the company. 

The press release says that it will continue performing long-haul flights to New York, Bangkok and Beijing. The flight schedule for Beijing could be optimized for the period of the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

The airline will also service routes between Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk and Dnipropetrovsk.

The servicing of some routes will be suspended. From January 23, 2013 AeroSvit is to finish the program of flights to Ho Chi Minh City and Goa due to the end of the period of active tourism season after the winter holidays.

From January 16, 2013, the airline will also cancel flights to St. Petersburg and Istanbul due to the reduction of commercial loading on the flights to the cities, in turn due to the suspension of AeroSvit’s participation in the IATA BSP system, although the company will continue flying to and from Tashkent.

Earlier, from January 15, 2013, the airline stopped servicing the Kyiv-Moscow route for the same reason.

According to the report, AeroSvit will continue bringing back passengers of flights that were canceled.

As reported, on January 10, 2013, IATA informed AeroSvit that it had had to instruct the regional IATA BSP systems to suspend payments with agents for the sale of tickets for the airline’s flights via the BSP system.

The IATA also said that it recommended agents switch to direct bilateral payments with the airline.

“It will take some time to build the alternative ticket sales system via direct payments with airlines and agents. After the launch of the system, AeroSvit plans to resume the operation of some routes,” AeroSvit said earlier.