On the 1st of May Yakutia Airlines started operating the flights on the route: Yakutsk - Khabarovsk - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Tokyo, the press service of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport reports. Domestic aircrafts Sukhoi Superjet work on  this route. They started to fly to Sakhalin for the first time on a regular basis, the press-service notices.

      Regular flights from Yakutsk to Japan will be carried out on the aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100. They will be carried out on Sundays. Flight operations period is since the 1st of May to the 23rd of October 2016. The aircraft arrives at 12:00 local time to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and at 13:40 it departs to Japan and at 13:50 local time it lands at the Tokyo airport. On the same day at 17:00 local time the aircraft flies back.