Russia’s Yakutia Airlines launches regular flights from Irkutsk to Yerevan, head of company’s Irkutsk branch Sergey Fayzulin told reporters.

The flights operated by Boeing 737-800 every Thursday will last six hours and forty minutes.

Fayzulin said the company had already sold 105 tickets for Irkuts-Yerevan flight and 20 tickets for the return flight. Yakutiya Airlines plans to increase the number of flights by next summer, RIA Novosti reported.

At the moment Irkutsk-Yerevan flights are not operated by any air company.