Belavia announced the transition to the Russian Leonardo booking system

“Belavia” carries out a complex of technical works on the transition to the Russian system of booking air tickets “Leonardo”, reported in the press service of the airline.

The company drew the attention of passengers to temporary changes in the procedures for booking and issuing air tickets, as well as in services at airports.

“From 20:00 on September 1, 2023, the booking, purchase, exchange and return of air tickets, as well as additional services, will be temporarily unavailable at the sales offices of the airline and agents, on the website, as well as in the Belavia mobile application. The airline plans to restore the provision of these services on September 2.

Previously, Belavia used the Saber booking system, writes Interfax with reference to the press service.

The domestic system for booking Leonardo air tickets was created by Rostec. How told On August 7, the general director of the state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the system was launched last year “as soon as possible.” According to him, more than 60 airlines, including “Aeroflot, work with the system. It registers 5 million passengers every month. Putin was surprised that the system is domestic, but called “Leonardo”. Chemezov said he did not know why. “The inventor of this system came up with that name,” he said. The President allowed this option, specifying that “this is part of world culture.”