Ural Airlines will start operating flights from Yekaterinburg to Harbin on March 30, the press service of the carrier reports. Direct flights will become regular and will be operated twice a week, they said.
Departures from the airport of the Ural capital will be carried out on Wednesdays and Sundays, return flights are scheduled for Mondays and Thursdays. The flights will be operated on Airbus A-319 aircraft. The flight from Yekaterinburg to Harbin will take 5 hours 55 minutes, from Harbin to Yekaterinburg – 6 hours 25 minutes.
Harbin is the administrative center of Heilongjiang Province, and it is a major political, economic, and cultural center in northeast China. In June 2024, Ural Airlines already launched flights to this destination after a four-year hiatus. A few months later, they were canceled again.