The international airport Baikal has received the first flight from Moscow after the USSR collapse, by summer the number of air carriers is going to increase up to 4.

The first flight landed in Ulan-Ude on Monday. In April the company plans to carry 5 flights a week. What is more, starting from May, it is possible to go to Moscow by ‘Transaero’ airlines. Thus, in the summer schedule there will be 4 airlines, including the working ‘S7’ and ‘Yakutia’. The minimum price of a one-way ticket is 5.5 thousand roubles (Aeroflot airlines).

At the same time the three year reconstruction of Baikal airport is about to finish this year. Within the reconstruction there are being built objects of air traffic organization, emergency stations and also there will be modernized a border checkpoint.