Rossiya Airlines, together with its travel partner Biblio Globus, has started a programme of flights from the cities of the Far East to Sochi and Crimea. The first flight was Khabarovsk–Simferopol.
Following the demand of residents of the Far Eastern region, Rossiya together with Biblio Globus offers passengers a comprehensive tourist product. It includes air transportation, transfer, hotel accommodation, and, if desired, all-inclusive meals and tour services.
In the summer season, Rossiya plans to transport about 50 thousand passengers from the Far East to the southern resorts.
The load factor of the first liner was 100%.
«The epidemiological situation has pushed the industry enterprises to quickly reallocate transport flows and open new domestic destinations. Supporting the trend of transport accessibility, Rossiya is now opening air transportation between the Far East and cities on the Black sea coast. Residents of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok will be able to fly to Sochi or Simferopol via a direct flight. The flights operated in the bypass of Moscow, will save time and money. And parameters of environmental friendliness of travel are improved by reducing the duration of flights», – said the Minister of Transport of Russia Yevgeny Dietrich.
The inaugural flight from Vladivostok to Sochi will take place on July 6. Direct flights from the Far East are operated on wide-body Boeing 747-400 in a two-class cabins - economy and business classes.
«Promotion of domestic resorts at the state level gave Rossiya Airlines an impulse for the development of the route network. The airline is ready to support this trend by opening new destinations for Russians to relax in», – said Sergey Alexandrovsky, CEO of Rossiya Airlines JSC, – «Being the discoverers is undoubtedly an honourable and very responsible mission. Residents of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk will be able to fly to Sochi and Simferopol via direct flights. As for us, we will do everything possible to ensure that Far Easterners arrive at the resorts of the Black sea coast in comfort».
«In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, we are actively working with airlines to open new travel destinations for residents of the Far East. Currently, due to the restrictions, flights to international destinations are not operated, so .we need an alternative – it can rightfully be considered the largest Russian resorts that are actively developing today. The opening of direct flights from Khabarovsk to Sochi and Simferopol has long been one of the key priorities for the development of our route network. Today's event was the result of rapid and well-coordinated cooperation between Khabarovsk International Airport and Rossiya Airlines. I hope that new flights to the Black sea coast will be in demand not only during this holiday season, but they will remain in the schedule of Khabarovsk Airport even after the resumption of international flights», – said Konstantin Basyuk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Khabarovsk Airport JSC.
Flights from the Far Eastern destinations, implemented jointly with the tour operator, to the Black sea coast complimented the large-scale programme of Rossiya. At the moment, 13 cities are available for departure: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Samara, Tyumen, Ufa, Chelyabinsk.
