German Hamburg Airways plans to open regular flights from ‘Leipzig/Halle’ airport to Tomsk in November, 2012. Last week the airport singed an agreement with the airline company about the location of one of the planes, as Klaus Marx, manger of ‘Leipzig/Halle’ airport development, reported. It is expected that this flight will be carried out 2 times a week. K. Marx also added that the airport will have serious changes in the market of air transport, as ‘Berlin-Tegel’ and ‘Berlin-Schönefeld’ airports are to be closed on the 2^nd of June, and opening of a new airport – ‘Berlin-Brandenburg’.

Earlier it was reported that the management of ‘Bogashevo’ (Tomsk) and ‘Leipzig/Halle’ (Germany) airports negotiated with a number of Russian and German airline companies on opening of a regular flight in 2012. The negotiations were with small German airline companies Hamburg Airways and Germania; Russian airline companies, such as ‘S7’, ‘Transaero’, ‘UTair’, ‘NordStar’ and ‘VIM Avia’ were also interested in it. The cost of a round-trip ticket is expected to be about 550 euro.