flydubai (IATA code FZ) has taken advantage of the fact that the UAE continues to allow flights to and from Russia, to launch daily service between Dubai and St. Petersburg. Passengers on the 4,300-kilometre route will find themselves travelling on the LCCs 737 MAX 8s. Alternatively, they could choose Emirates’s daily service (operated by 777-300ERs) […]
January 25, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Aeroflot has begun service between St. Petersburg and Kirovsk/Apatity in the Murmansk region of Northwest Russia. Flights on the 880-kilometre route are set to operate 5-weekly (daily except Tuesdays and Wednesdays) using Sukhoi Superjets operated by Aeroflot subsidiary Rossiya. According to Cirium data, the route is also flown on a daily basis by Severstal Aircompany, […]
February 15, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Data compiled by The ANKER Report for Air Service One reveals that the top 15 airports in European Russia (as opposed to Asian Russia) welcomed 135.5 million passengers in 2021, with the three main airports serving Moscow leading the way. This compares with 155.8m passengers passing through these same 15 airports in 2019. That means […]
February 11, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
On 21 September, Nordwind Airlines began weekly (Tuesday) service between St. Petersburg and Skopje. The inaugural service (flight number EO 2109 operated by a Pegas Fly Embraer E190LR, registration VP-BZH) departed St. Petersburg at 11:25 and touched down in Skopje three hours and two minutes later at 13:27 local time. The return flight (EO 2110) […]
September 27, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Russia’s Pegas Fly launched a new weekly connection between St. Petersburg and Stuttgart in Germany on Sunday 22 August. The inaugural service on the 1,835-kilometre route (flight number EO 2171 operated by an Embraer E190, registration VP-BZJ) departed St. Petersburg at 11:30 and touched down in Stuttgart two hours and 43 minutes later at 13:13 […]
August 31, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport has become the latest European airport to be the busiest for passengers. In June the Russian airport, which is the main base for flag-carrier Aeroflot, welcomed 2.94 million travellers, beating Istanbul IST into second place. The Turkish mega-hub handled 2.80 million passengers. Moscow Domodedovo, which had led the way in May with […]