When will flights between the resorts of Egypt and the regions of Russia open?
Russia Airlines (part of the Aeroflot group) has planned to launch regular flights to the resorts of Egypt from the regions of the Russian Federation.
Airline "Russia" in partnership with tour operator "Biblio-Globus" starts flights to Egypt from Russian regions. Flights to the Red Sea resorts will be operated from eight cities.
In Hurghada liners will start flying from Novosibirsk (from September 11), Nizhny Novgorod (from September 10), Rostov-on-Don (from September 11), Tyumen (from September 13) and Perm (from September 10).
In Sharm el-Sheikh — from Novosibirsk (since September 18), Nizhny Novgorod (since September 12), Krasnodar (since September 14), Chelyabinsk (since September 12) and Mineralnye Vody (since September 14), — stated in the message.
Flights to each destination are scheduled once a week on Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Flight tickets are sold only as part of a comprehensive tourist product, including flight, transfer, hotel accommodation of the chosen star.
According to the tourist operator, the load of the first flights from the regions is 80-90%.
Russia already flies to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh from Moscow: flights opened in August.
Earlier, the airline S7 reported that in November it planned flights to the resorts of Egypt from Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Samara, Ufa.
Source: tourism.interfax