OREANDA-NEWS. General Director of JSC "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines" Valeriy Okulov and General Director of FGUP "GTK "RUSSIA" Sergey Mikhaltchenko have signed basic code-sharing agreement which considerable enhances capabilities of both companies in carrying the passengers both on domestic and international directions.

In December the companies will become entitled to use mutually their codes on the partner flights between Moscow (Sheremetyevo) and Saint-Petersburg, and in January 2007 same will be available for the flights from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg to destinations in Germany.

Joint carriage services between Moscow and northern capital will start on December 10 on Tupolev-154, A320 and Boeing 737-500 airplanes. For the flights from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg both companies will allocate to each other by 4 reservations for each jointly operated flights in business class and by 25-30 seats in the economic class.  The above agreement based operation on this flight will enhance the offer up to 15-17 flights a day, which will also ensure convenient connections with almost any international and local Aeroflot flights in Sheremetyevo 1 and 2 and all avialble international and local flights of GTK "Russia".

Aeroflot has joint carriage arrangements with 25 aviation companies; GTK "Russia" has same kind of arrangements with 21 companies.