Thursday, March 28, 2024
Russia’s largest airline, state-run Aeroflot, has started phasing out its Airbus A330 fleet in preparation for the arrival of the all-new Airbus A350 next year, the company said, according to Rusaviainsider.com. The first of three of the long-haul A330-300s to be retired this year left the carrier’s Sheremetyevo Airport base for...
Half of the tourists visiting Russia believe that St. Petersburg is more similar to the European cities than other Russian cities, Aviasales reports. Tourism experts interviewed 120 thousand users and found out which Russian cities most remind them of Europe. First, the service employees learned the opinions of users on...
Russian airlines jointly transported almost 86.3 million passengers in the first eight months of 2019, exceeding the same period last year by 11.7 percent, according to figures released by Rosaviatsiya, the country’s aviation authority. In the period, passenger traffic reached 216.1 billion RPKs, a 13.6 per cent year-on-year improvement,...
The arrival of the first charter flight from Russia on Friday will mark the beginning of the tourism season in India’s Goa, IANS reports. The season begins as anxiety set in among the travel and tourism industry in Goa after the collapse of leading UK travel tourism firm, Thomas Cook. Goa has...
From Tuesday, October 1, 53 nationalities can apply for a free e-visa to visit the Russian city of St Petersburg and the neighbouring Leningrad region, Travel Daily Media reports.  According to officials, the e-visa is issued within “four calendar days, including week-ends and bank holidays.” A tourist only has to...
The credit status of state-run Aeroflot Group, Russia’s largest airline consortium, has been upgraded by credit ratings agency Fitch to “BB” from “BB-“ with a stable outlook, Travel Daily News International reports. A strong market position that, in the first six months of this year, has strengthened to a...
The third runway at Sheremetyevo International Airport was commissioned on 19 September 2019. The Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on environmental issues, ecology and transport S.B. Ivanov, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation E.I. Dietrich, Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency A.V. Neradko,...
Local authorities in Russia‘s Irkutsk region have adopted new rules for the organization of tourism and recreation in the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory, which will limit tourist activity in Lake Baikal, Sibnovosti reports. In accordance with the rules, 11 places will be allocated in the ecological...
Chinese development and tourism is in the heart of a heated debate on the degradation of Russia’s treasured Lake Baikal, as the government is tightening environmental protection, The South China Morning Post reports. This month, President Vladimir Putin signed new protocols clarifying how authorities will monitor “compliance with the law...
After years of lobbying for the introduction of a partial open-skies regime, the operator of St Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, Northern Capital Gateway (NCG), has finally gained government approval for the move, Kommersant reports. NCG sees the open-skies regime, which in general is the liberalization and ease of access and rules...