25.09.2015

Ukraine prohibited flights of Russian airlines into the country
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to prohibit flights of Russian airlines in Ukraine, first of all to Aeroflot and to Transaero, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Friday. "We Made a decision to ban flights of Russian airlines, primarily of companies Aeroflot and Transaero…
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22.09.2015

Sergei Shpilko re-elected as president of the Russian Union of Travel Industry
Members of the Russian Union of Travel Industry elected board of the Union, and identified areas of activity in the years 2015-2017, press secretary of the Union Irina Tyurina reported. The following members of the board retained their positions, as President Sergei Shpilko, vice-presidents Yuri Barzykin,…
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22.09.2015

Most popular New Year destinations for Russians
The most popular holiday destinations of Russians in the New Year will be Egypt, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) reported. As it was explained in the ATOR, the summer demand has shifted to the low-budget dollar destinations. And the most popular of them will be the Egyptian Hurghada…
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22.09.2015

Aeroflot will transfer part of the flight of his daughter companies to Domodedovo airport in Moscow
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…
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16.09.2015

Russia’s Hermitage on top 10 best museums list — TripAdvisor
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…
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16.09.2015

MP: Russia unprepared for scanning foreigners’ fingerprints
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…
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16.09.2015

Russia’s antimonopoly watchdog may demand Aeroflot sell part of its airline routes
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…
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16.09.2015

Pobeda airline can start international flights in winter 2015 — source
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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14.09.2015

First results of summer season 2015.

Exclusive comments of the biggest networks of travel agencies in Russia

 

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…

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10.09.2015

Nobody Wins in Transaero Sale
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…
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09.09.2015

Aeroflot-Transaero Merger to Help Russia Keep Share on Air Transit Market
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…
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09.09.2015

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Russia's largest airline Aeroflot's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR).

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).

"Aeroflot's rating downgrade…

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09.09.2015

Passports, Livestock and Corpses Stranded at Moscow Airport
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,…
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08.09.2015

CIS hotel rates drop due to lack of Russian tourists
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…
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08.09.2015

The European Union has lost nearly 40% of the Russian tourists in the first half of the year
In the first half of the year, arrivals from Russia to the EU decreased by 37.4% compared with the same period of the last year, according to the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina. She explained that these figures are based on statistics from Russian Statistics Service,…
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07.09.2015

The number of Russians traveling abroad fell by 24% in the first half of the year
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…
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02.09.2015

Statement of Transaero Airlines
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…
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01.09.2015

Lay-offs to leave Hermitage without security police as of November — museum head
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,…
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26.08.2015

Eastern Europe loses almost half of Russian tourists this year
The Association of Russian Tour Operators said the devaluating ruble had caused a 50% decline in Russian outbound tourism since December 2014. Russia’s outbound tourism has decreased by 30% this year, according to the European Commission for Tourism. Eastern Europe has lost almost half of Russian tourists…
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26.08.2015

Russian outbound tourism falls by 20%, further decline expected
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,…
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