Russia's S7 Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX via a lease with Air Lease Corp. (ALC), RusTurismNews.com reports.
S7, operated by Globus Airlines, becomes the first Russian airline to fly the new and improved 737 airplane.
The company plans to take 10 more 737 MAX jets over...
Iran is considering the option of allowing visitors from Russia to enter the country without a visa, in an effort to increase tourism revenue, Tehran Times reported.
The move comes after Tehran granted the same privilege for some other nationals including Chinese and Omani passport holders. Iran’s minister of Cultural...
In the second part of September, demand for international trips was 25–40% greater than in the same time the previous year, Kommersant writes. According to Igor Blinov, a spokesman of the National Network of Travel Agencies, sales growth is dependent on the direction.
According to Oleg Kozyrev, Marketing Director...
Crimea received about 1.5 million tourists in July, Head of the republic Sergey Aksenov said on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"From July 1 to July 31, 1.432 mln tourists vacationed in Crimea. Of these, 31.9% arrived by air, 62.7% - via Crimean Bridge by cars and buses, 5% - by rail,...
Sheremetyevo is on target for another record-breaking year after registering a 15.4% rise in passenger traffic in the first five months of 2019, Airport World reported.
The airport recently published its performance results for May and the first five months of 2019. A total of 18.7 million passengers passed through...
Sheremetyevo International Airport was Europe's fifth-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in 2020, following Istanbul's new airport, Roissy - Charles de Gaulle in Paris, London Heathrow and Amsterdam's Schiphol, according to Bloomberg.
Heathrow had been first among European airports, but suffered a 73% decrease in passenger traffic due to lockdowns and border closures stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, which...
UAE-based hotel group TIME hotels is targeting investment opportunities in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan as part of its international expansion prospects, ETurbonews.com reports.
The group’s CEO, Mohamed Awadalla, was invited by the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan to discuss potential hospitality investments in Tatarstan’s capital city of...
The tourist outflow from Russia during the coming holiday season may turn out to be ten percent higher than last year, but the trend can hardly be described as positive since it is just in line with overall market growth recorded in 2018, experts told business newspaper Kommersant.
Analysts believe...
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,...
Kayak and Momondo airline ticket and hotel booking services have stopped offering hotels in Crimea to tourists from Russia, RIA reported.
When searching for hotels on the peninsula for the nearest dates, the Kayak service gives a message: "We did not find suitable results. Perhaps none of our providers serve...
