The new air carrier of Avianova well-known for its incredibly cheap services opens regular flights from St. Petersburg to Moscow, Sochi, Krasnodar and Arkhangelsk. The company’s prices on this domestic air services are 3-5 times lower as ones of other air carriers, including the first Russian discounter Sky Express.

The double terrorist attack in the Moscow metro caused 39 deaths has not yet influenced the decisions of foreign tourists to visit Moscow. No tours have been cancelled since the March, 29. The terrorist attacks are considered as something like natural disasters or event beyond the control.

Extra patrolling of the passengers’ terminals and the airport’s building has been inserted in the St. Petersburg airport of Pulkovo in connection with the terrorist attack which took place in the Moscow Metro on the stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury on the March, 29, at 7. 56 and 8.37 in the morning.

One more new terminal, Terminal E opens in the airport of Sheremetyevo (Moscow) on the March, 29. The Transport Minister of Russia has reported about it to the journalists during his visit to the transportation exhibition in Paris. The press-relation service of the airport has defined the date.

The airport of Yakutsk (Sakha Republic) did not function during two hours because of the false alarm. It was reported about a bomb in the building of the airport. The bomb-disposal experts, MES officers, representatives of the law-enforcement authorities and health professionals came to the airport after an anonym had called airport safety service and reported about a bomb.

The aircraft Sukhoi Superjet has finished the flight test program in Yakutsk in the low temperature circumstances and returned to the flight-testing facility in Zhukovsky by Moscow.

The Wind Jet Italian air carrier opens regular direct flights from Pisa to Moscow and St. Petersburg. The service begins functioning in May, 2010.

The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) has banned the flights of the Ulyanovsk Air Company of Aviasta-Tu after two accidents with the company’s aircrafts in the Moscow airport of Domodedovo.

The Tu-204 aircraft belonging to the Air Company Aviastar-Tu (Ulyanovsk) made an emergency landing in the forest having undershot the runway of the Domodedovo airport. 8 crew members are hospitalized, and 2 of them are on the gate.

5 persons were injured in the crash landing of Mi-8 helicopter on Kamchatka, reports Olga Mikhailova, press secretary of the Chief Directorate of the MES of Russia for Kamchatka Territory.