(опубликовано: 12 январь 2018, 01:57)
11 Jan 2018 Russian transport ministry decided to allow foreign carriers to fly domestic between russian cities on long haul aircrafts. Charter flights only possible for the world cup period.
Now national football federations could potentially ease the pain of high air costs for their fans visiting Russia this year.
This is unic opportunity allowed in Russia for the first time in the history. Current regulations only allow domestic flights for up to 19 seat jets.
"Foreign airlines will be able to fly on request between Russian cities during the World Cup in 2018 in order to remove peak loads that may occure" Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov told reporters on Thursday at a press conference.
But, he said, the priority will still be with Russian airlines. Foreigners will be allowed to fly, unless they offer more competitive conditions for transportation on certain routes.
According to the forecast of the Ministry of Transport, during the World Football Championship from 3 million to 5 million people expected to visit Russia: up to 40% will use Aeroflot (1.2-2 million) About half a million expected to use state-owned company RZD, which exept regular commertial servises heve reserved 400 trains free of charge for FanID holders. We recently told our readers how to buy Russian train tickets in 2018.
Earlier it was found that for the time of the World Cup on air tickets in some routes connecting host cities grew by 230%.
As you can see for example domestic flights to Volgograd have soared 5,3 times compared to normal prices for this route.
As explained by Sokolov, this growth was caused by the fact that not all airlines at that time introduced the summer schedule, and now the situation is different. The prices have redued also due to recent Aeroflot's decision to transport Russian citizens holding tickets to Russian team games for 5 rubles only, minister said.
Mr Sokolov said that set of measures is being worked on limiting air fares "a little above average", as it was set during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. "This set of measures should be used carefully. I would say, we will monitor situation and react accordingly"
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