Soon it will be possible to fly to Germany or Austria straight from Barnaul, and vice versa.

As the official site of Altai region administration informed, preliminary agreements about the organization of such flights were achieved within the work of the region’s delegations at the international exhibition ITB-2012.

It was reported that within the frame of the exhibition Mikhail Shchetinin, the director of Glaveconomy met with Dmitriy Sharf, the main representative of ‘AeroSvit’, the largest airlines of the Ukraine, in Berlin, which carries out flights from Germany to Novosibirsk. During the negotiations, the representative showed interest in working out the organization of such flights to Barnaul. Also there was a meeting with a representative of JSC ‘Aeroflot’ in Vienna, during which the parts agreed that to attract Austrian tourists to Altai region, it is necessary to work out the organization of a straight flight from Austria to Altai.

Besides, Ardjan Langedijk, the representative of ‘Kazachstan Reizen’ company, after visiting the booth of the region, expressed a wish to cooperate with tourist companies of the region to organize tours to Altai region from the Netherlands.