Ural Airlines (U6, Ekaterinburg) has leased a first ex-Thomsonfly (BY/London Luton) A321-200 and has introduced new domestic and international services: Adler/Sochi-Chelyabinsk: weekly seasonal A320-200 service has started on June 1 Alder/Sochi-Kemerovo: weekly seasonal A320-200 service has started on June 2 Adler/Sochi-Novosibirsk: weekly seasonal A320-200 service has started on June 2 Ekaterinburg-Beijing: 2x weekly A320-200 service starting on July 1 Ekaterinburg-Tel Aviv Ben Gurion: weekly A320-200 service has started on March 25 Irkutsk-Dushanbe: weekly A320-200 service has started on April 2 Moscow Domodedovo-Baku: 2x weekly A320-200 service starting on July 8 Moscow Domodedovo-Khanty-Mansiysk: daily A320-200 service has started on May 13 Moscow Domodedovo-Kulyab: 5x weekly Tu-154M service (already launched) Perm-Dushanbe: weekly A320-200 service has started on March 30 St. Petersburg-Gyandzha: weekly seasonal A320-200 service (already launched) It has entered into bilateral codeshare agreement with Armavia (U8/Yerevan) and Rossiya (FV/St. Petersburg) for the Ekaterinburg-Yerevan and Ekaterinburg-St. Petersburg routes. Ural will however not resume seasonal services from Ekaterinburg to Dusseldorf Intl, Kiev Borispol and Milan Malpensa this summer season. Ural Airlines has also retired its An-24s, Il-86s and Yak-42Ds from scheduled services and as a result has suspended its routes from Ekaterinburg to Nadym, Novy Urengoy and Salehard.