Aeroflot airline plans to redistribute flights if its daughter companies among Moscow airports, the newspaper Kommersant wrote with reference to its sources. According to the newspaper, Aeroflot is negotiating the transfer from Sheremetyevo of all flights of Donavia and from Vnukovo the part of the flights…
ST. PETERSBURG, September 15. /TASS/. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second city, has been ranked sixth on the 2015 list of the world’s best museums, published on Tuesday by travel website TripAdvisor. Twenty-five winners were selected from among 591 museums worldwide, TripAdvisor…
Russia is not ready to introduce obligatory fingerprinting for foreigners applying for Russian visas, State Duma deputy Leonid Kalashnikov said on Monday. "I do not think we will introduce fingerprint scanning soon, as the consular offices are not ready to collect fingerprints of foreigners coming to…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) finds it necessary to oblige Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot to sell part of its airline routes - both domestic and foreign - in the next two years, head of the service Igor Artemyev told reporters. On Tuesday, it was announced that Aeroflot would buy 75% in…
Aeroflot subsidiary Pobeda airline can begin international flights in the winter of 2015 to CIS countries, the Balkan region, Germany and Italy, a source in Aeroflot told TASS Wednesday. "This will be possible in case restrictions of the Federal Aviation Regulations are lifted," he said. Now, according…
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Before the official closing of summer sales, we decided to discuss the results of summer season 2015 with real experts, those who are on top of Russian travel retailer system. Average commission…
Aeroflot's upcoming purchase and reorganization of Transaero Airlines follows the traditional Russian quasi-state-controlled business model. The Aeroflot board of directors recently met to consider purchasing a 75 percent plus one share of Transaero Airlines. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov had already…
The purchase of Transaero Airlines by Russia's flag carrier Aeroflot will help resolve the company's debt problems and allow Russia to minimize risks of losing its share on the global air transit market, a source in the Economic Development Ministry said Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Aeroflot announced…
Fitch Affirms Gazprom Rating at 'BBB-' With Negative Outlook. Fitch Ratings said Monday it had downgraded Russia's largest airline Aeroflot's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'B+' from 'BB-' and placed it on Rating Watch Negative (RWN).
The documents are now set to be shipped to the regions from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. About 1,000 residents of Russia's regions who sent their passports to Moscow embassies to obtain foreign visas have been left without their travel documents after a holdup at the cargo terminal of Sheremetyevo Airport,…
According to a research by the Hotellook.ru online service, this year's consistent drop in the tourist flow from Russiacaused hotel rates in Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, and Ukraine to collapse. First quarter of 2015 revealed a 40% decrease in the number of Russian citizens' going abroad compared to…
In the first half of 2015, number of international trips of Russians decreased by 24% compared with the same period of the last year and amounted to 16.4 million. Meanwhile, the number of international trips with tourism purposes decreased by almost 34%, according to data of the Federal State Statistics…
The Government of the Russian Federation held the meeting of the Intergovernmental commission chaired by Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister, on the issues of air transport industry. In the interests of the development of the commercial aviation and creating one of the largest in the world group…
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Hermitage museum director-general believes that other Russian museums are likely to face similar problems. Police will stop guarding the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in November because of the forthcoming lay-offs at the Russian Interior Ministry, Mikhail Piotrovsky,…
The flows of tourists have been mainly reduced due to the depreciation of the Russian ruble, some people went to domestic beach destinations.
Fewer Russians took holidays abroad this year, a decline of 20% compared with 2014, an advisor for tourism to the Russian culture minister, Nikolay Novichkov,…
More than 76% of all booked in 2015 tour packages include meals and services on "all inclusive" system, accordsing to the information of the Russian tour operator TUI.
"Today, all Inclusive is the most popular meal plan on the mass tourism destinations. This system allows clients to save as paying…
Quite a large number of outgoing tour operators left the market within a year, some companies shifted to domestic tourism, the director of the Northwest regional branch of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Ekaterina Shadskaya reported.
"Despite the fact that this year much less tourists book international…
Continued fall of the ruble has led not only to a decrease in sales of international trips, but also to the abandonment of partially paid tours, according to the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina. "Many customers who have made a pre-payment for the tour and now have…
The new general director of tour operator MULTITUR is Dmitry Sharov, the press service of the company reported D.Sharov works in Multitur since 2006. He worked operator, head of sales department, the executive director of the company. Previously CEO of MULTITUR was Alexey Vysokanov, who will remain head…
In July 2015, the average price for a ticket in one direction to the non-CIS countries amounted to 12.5 thousand rubles, which is almost 30% more than in July in the last year, when it amounted to 9.65 thousand rubles.
The cheapest routes from Moscow in the last month were to Prague, Berlin, Istanbul…
