In September 2019, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, the largest in Russia, became the first in eastern Europe to operate three runways. The airport is counting on the runways and its new passenger terminals to increase its passenger numbers by a factor of 1.5 to 65 million people by 2030,...
Rossiya Airlines, part of Aeroflot Group, has stopped flights from Moscow to Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Denpasar (Bali, Indonesia), the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) said on Tuesday, according to TASS.
All the flights after May holidays (the last flight will be on May 11) until July are...
In accordance with the order by the crisis center for the prevention of the import and spread of new coronavirus infection on the area of the Russian Federation chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatiana Golikova, a temporary restriction on passenger air transportation to the...
Russian tourists travelling to the member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are expected to generate an estimated $1.22 billion in travel and tourism revenue by 2023, an increase of 19% when compared with figures from 2018, according to data published ahead of Arabian Travel Market 2020.
Building on this, Saudi...
Russia and Turkmenistan plan to launch joint cruise tours in the Caspian Sea in 2020, Vestnik Kavkaza reports.
The Governor of Russia’s Astrakhan Region Igor Babushkin told Russian media that route options have been developed, including the main one from Astrakhan across the Caspian Sea, with entering the ports of...
Russian company S7 Airlines said it would ground Boeing 737 Max 8 airlines starting from Wednesday following two crashes of the same airplane model in the past five months, including an Ethiopian Airlines plane this week, TASS news agency reported.
"S7 Airlines made a decision to suspend operations of Boeing 737...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has unveiled an exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the first manned flight into space.
‘Our Gagarin’ is supported by Moscow’s Museum of Cosmonautics and the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, The Moodie Davitt Report writes.
The Terminal D exhibition centres on Yuri Gagarin, a...
Leading Russian airlines resumed flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to popular tourist destinations in Antalya, Bodrum and Dalaman, in Turkey, on August 10 as part of the phased restoration of international air traffic. Passenger traffic on these routes totaled 9,000 people during the first 24 hours.
Flights to these destinations are operated by Aeroflot, Rossiya, Nordwind...
Oman wants to double the number of Russians to visit the country as a tourist destination in the next two years, Harald Zulauf, CEO of the Oman external tourism office in Russia has said, according to The Times of Oman.
“At maximum, we hope that the number is doubled within the...
Airports across Russia could introduce automated passport control systems, which will allow passengers to automatically pass through passport control using biometric data and foreign passports, RT reported.
Border and customs officers have already conducted testing of the systems at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports, and based on its results, a decision...
