Region Avia Airlines (Ekaterinburg) is planning to acquire eight additional EMB-120s after Vnesheconombank has taken a 25% stake in the carrier also providing additional financing for the expansion plans. Region Avia is planning to set up a new base in Ekaterinburg and to expand its services from Moscow Domodedovo later this and next year. It has already introduced new routes: Astrakhan-Adler/Sochi: weekly seasonal EMB-120 service Moscow Domodedovo-Bryansk: 2x weekly EMB-120 service Tambov-Adler/Sochi: weekly seasonal EMB-120 service It has however dropped its routes from Moscow Domodedovo to Ivanovo and from Nizhniy Novgorod to St. Petersburg in the meantime.