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It will account for about 11% of the company’s passenger traffic in 2021. 11% of the projected passenger traffic of the low-cost airline in 2021 will fall on customers at Sheremetyevo. “In total, we want to transport 13.5 million people in 2021. Only from Sheremetyevo - 1.5 million people,” said...
Air fares have more than doubled for flights from Russia to some of the few countries around the world that remain open for tourism, price data from travel agents has shown, The Moscow Times reports. The average price paid for a return flight from Moscow to all destinations was 15,700...
No new countries that Russian tourists could visit are likely to open in spring, Director of the Association of Russian Tour Operators Maya Lomidze told RBC TV channel on Tuesday, TASS informed. "I don’t think new countries will be added in spring. We currently have countries that receive Russian nationals...
Russia’s capital has ranked first in Europe in terms of hotel occupancy rate since November 2020, the country’s Vedomosti newspaper announced on Wednesday referring to the Cushman & Wakefield international consulting company’s report, TASS writes. According to the newspaper, Moscow hotels were filled by 39% in November, while in Istanbul,...
Sheremetyevo International Airport was recognized as the best airport for service quality in 2020 among airports with 2019 passenger traffic of more than 40 million by the Airports Council International's (ACI) global program for researching the level of service at airports Airport Service Quality (ASQ). Sheremetyevo Airport has been...
Tourists curious about Russia’s imperial past can now ride on a special train running through the Ural mountains along the route traveled by some members of the royal family before their execution in 1918, Reuters reports. The train making the three-hour journey between Yekaterinburg and Alapayevsk is equipped with a...
Foreign nationals may now enter Russia for work purposes as long as their employer obtains permission ahead of time, according to a decree published by the Russian government, as reported by The Moscow Times. The decree, which went into effect on Feb. 16, follows a nearly yearlong suspension on most...
Sheremetyevo International Airport hosted 1,351,000 passengers in January 2021, an increase of 9.4% over the December figure of 1,276,000, and performed 13,090 takeoff- and landing operations. Passenger traffic on international airlines in January amounted to 267,000, while domestic airlines carried 1.84 million. The most popular international destinations in January were...
Russia is re-opening its borders to foreign students who show two negative coronavirus tests and arrive from countries with flight resumption agreements in place, authorities said Tuesday. More than 300,000 international students are estimated to have been unable to enter Russia due to the pandemic, The Moscow Times reports. Russian...
Russia’s low-cost airline Pobeda will resume flights to Italy’s Bergamo starting March 26, the company said in its mailout to passengers, TASS reports. "Pobeda is resuming flights to Milan (Bergamo). Moscow-Milan (Bergamo) flights will be performed from March 26, 2021, on Fridays," the company said. Regular flights between Russia and Italy...