Monday, April 29, 2024
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...
Russia has hosted the biennial General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization this week, promoting itself as a rapidly growing travel destination, RIA Novosti reports. Over 2,000 delegates from 138 countries gathered in St. Petersburg for the four-day event, organized by the Russian Federal Tourism Agency (Rosturizm) and the United...
From September 13 to 15, Sheremetyevo International Airport participated in the China Festival, which took place in Moscow, focusing on the 70th anniversary of China-Russia diplomatic relations. The event featured discussions on pressing issues of commercial and economic cooperation with China. At the festival, Sheremetyevo Airport took part in...
From September 9 to 30, 2019, Sheremetyevo International Airport hosts a themed exhibition dedicated to the legendary weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov. The exhibition is presented in the art gallery of Terminal E, the airport press service said. November 2019 marks the centenary of the birth of the famous Russian gunsmith....
Russia’s Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) has bought 10 locomotives and 166 passenger carriages for a new rail route linking Russian cities to the Crimea Peninsula, RBC reports. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and European Union sanctions ban European citizens and companies from investing there, including in the...
Aeroexpress will launch a regular bus route from the Khovrino metro station to Terminal B of Sheremetyevo Airport, RIA Novosti reported. This autumn, high-capacity express buses will connect Khovrino, a large transport hub, with the airport’s Northern Terminal Complex. The bus route will run along the M-11 toll highway; therefore,...
Japan Airlines (JAL) has revealed plans to return to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport after 12 years at competitor Domodedovo (DME). The reversal follows a new business partnership agreement announced in 2017 by JAL and Aeroflot Russian Airlines, whose capital city gateway hub is located at Sheremetyevo, Russian Aviation Insider...
Since 1967, Japan Airlines (JAL) has been operating flights from Tokyo to Moscow, now reaching 53 consecutive years of service. On Thursday, the carrier revealed upcoming plans to relocate services to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport. Sheremetyevo is well accessible from Moscow city centre and has a modern infrastructure that...
Russia’s ministry for industry and trade has decided to abandon the Superjet 75 project, the shortened version of Russia’s Superjet 100 regional jet, according to Vladislav Filev, owner and head of S7, Russia’s second-biggest airline group. S7 Airlines had, in April 2018, shown strong interest in – and indeed signed...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has been awarded the ACI Airport Service Quality Award (ASQ) in the category Best Airport by Size and Region for Over 40 million passengers per year for 2018. The awards ceremony was held in Bali, Indonesia, on 4 September 2019, during the Gala dinner of the...