{"id":493972,"date":"2025-10-29T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=493972"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:22:06","slug":"cherhinets-talks-about-new-belavia-charters-cargo-operations-and-lower-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/cherhinets-talks-about-new-belavia-charters-cargo-operations-and-lower-fares","title":{"rendered":"Charhinets Talks About New Belavia Charters, Cargo Operations, and Lower Fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Ihar Charhinets<\/b>, Director General of Belavia, announced that the airline plans to launch charter flights to Jordan and Tunisia. The first will begin in March, and the second may start in May next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean it will definitely happen, but we are doing everything possible to make it a reality, using a long-haul aircraft \u2014 to Tunisia,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding that the Jordan program is planned to start in March 2026 and the Tunisia program is being worked on for May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Belavia announced the launch of a regular flight to Almaty in December and two charter flights to Thailand (Pattaya and Phuket) in January.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Charhinets also said that charter flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh will resume from Mahilyou in November and from Brest in December.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Belavia plans to operate 18,000 flights, 4.6% more than last year, while passenger volume has increased by 6.6% to 2.56 million people. According to Charhinets, the addition of two long-haul Airbus A330 aircraft will allow the airline to exceed its performance targets.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the new aircraft have also boosted cargo operations. On medium-distance routes, an Airbus A330 can carry up to 20 tonnes of freight. Cargo is currently transported from Istanbul, Dubai, and Sanya, and the company is exploring routes from Vietnam and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about potential fare reductions, Charhinets linked lower ticket prices to the geopolitical situation. Once it stabilizes, flight times on several routes will shorten, which will immediately affect prices. He also expects the A330s \u2014 with their higher capacity \u2014 and the continued expansion of the fleet to have a positive impact on fares.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe will continue acquiring aircraft. Which ones? At this moment, I can\u2019t say. We are working both with Western and Russian aircraft,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there is a preliminary memorandum with Russia\u2019s United Aircraft Corporation concerning the MS-21 and Superjet aircraft. However, Belavia is waiting for the start of their commercial operation to understand their pricing and performance characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are waiting for these aircraft to enter commercial service, and then we will decide whether to acquire the MS-21 or Superjet for our fleet. For now, we are trying to work with other aircraft,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ihar Charhinets, Director General of Belavia, announced that the airline plans to launch charter flights to Jordan and Tunisia. The first will begin in March, and the second may start in May next year. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean it will definitely happen, but we are doing everything possible to make it a reality, using a long-haul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/690223075b7e3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"manual"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Charhinets Talks About New Belavia Charters, Cargo Operations, and Lower Fares"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}