difficult time airlines are forced to reformat their parks and to join forces on air routes with partners

Often this leads to the fact that a passenger buys a ticket, as a pig in a poke - not knowing, or what company will service the flight, or what the aircraft will put on the route.

drop in demand for airline transportation makes vigilantly to think about optimizing the fleet and improving the use of the aircraft fleet. First of all, it means to fly more with fewer planes, - explained Deputy General Director for Commerce company Aerosvit Ursula Siling. In practice, this is accomplished in several ways. First, it reduces the number of aircraft carriers, replacing some of them Court more efficient configuration of the same model of aircraft or other type.

For example, to date fleet of ships Boeing company Aerosvit declined from 14 to 10 aircraft (four vehicles returned to the lessor). Moreover, according to sources at the company, three of the remaining sides are not exploited. Meanwhile, the company has entered into a wet lease aircraft several other Ukrainian companies, which during the crisis left the market. In particular, in the livery AeroSvit and its routes (within the country) now fly planes An-24 from the park Lugansk Airlines and the airline URGA.

recall in late July, the airline Ukraine International Airlines has received a new Boeing-737-800. This machine should replace less efficient Boeing 737-300, which will be returned to the lessor in October.

Secondly, to achieve the objective - to fly more with fewer ships - operators expanding network of routes through the conclusion interlaynovyh agreements with other carriers. This means that the airline buys a block of seats in the airplane partner and sells them in the agent network as their own. The practice of such agreements is becoming increasingly popular.

most common it is for domestic flights: flights are often within the country for companies are unprofitable, they carry only haul transit passengers in the base airport for its further transfer abroad. However, not all carriers can afford to have the board, effective as a short-both domestic and medium-haul routes, because the code-share accounts at an opportune moment.

For example, the UIA focused on the development of international traffic in a westerly direction,its domestic routes the company has only two: Kiev - Lviv and Kiev - Simferopol. With the same interlaynovym agreements with the companies' Dnepravia and Aerosvit (signed in late May and July, respectively), UIA sells seats on flights to Ivano-Frankivsk, Lugansk, Uzhgorod, Odessa, Kharkov and Simferopol.

Recently, increasing joint efforts of domestic companies affect and international flights. Recently signing a code-Shera lines Kiev - Kiev and Astana - Ashgabat signed AeroSvit and Windrose; line Kiev - Tbilisi in partnership exploit the UIA, AeroSvit and Windrose (the latter joined in tandem UIA - Aerosvit in late July ). Development of cooperation with parity carriers today is more efficient than the capacity of natural frequencies, - commented on this trend CEO of Windrose Sergei Janowo. He said the company is constantly working to sign new code-sharing agreements.

note, the unification of Ukrainian airline routes are not kept pace with the unification of their fleets. Often, the nomenclature of the fleet is different even within the same airline. For example, Aerosvit, along with Boeing operates the AN-148 and AN-24 (in alliance with Donbassaero and Yak-42 and A-320), Windrose - Embraer-195, A-320, as well MD-82. This means that, at its discretion, the company for a few hours before departure may substitute one aircraft type to another (this does not contradict the rules of the contract and the Warsaw Convention on air transport).

Such replacement

sometimes signifies not only an unpleasant surprise in a less comfortable cushion, but overbooking (tickets sold is greater than the seats in the aircraft). The passenger would then have to come to terms with the fact that he will fly another flight (this is also consistent with the rules of the Warsaw Convention). But even if the company operates only one aircraft type, it does not give you assurance that you go by this vessel: it is quite possible that the flight is operated by code-sharing partner. This can not even find on arrival at the airport: in the ticket, and board the flight will be marked by the code of the company, which has been bought a travel document. So the sympathy of the passenger to the level of service and certain fleet operators do not give him any guarantees reciprocal love.

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