Flights abroad are opened from 13 cities of Russia
The operational headquarters for the prevention of the importation and spread of coronavirus infection allows from April 1 to perform foreign flights from 13 other Russian airports - the list of Russian airports, from which it is possible to fly abroad by direct flights has grown to 34.
From April 1, the Operations Headquarters decided to resume flights to foreign countries from international airports from another 13 cities of Russia:
Barnaul,
Belgorod,
Volgograd,
Voronezh,
Kaluga,
Krasnodar,
Lipetsk,
Nalichik,
Orenburg,
Saratov,
Sochi,
Tyumen,
South-Sakhalinsk
Until April 1, international flights were possible from 21 cities of the Russian Federation: Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Grozny, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Makhachkala, Mineral Waters, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Khabarovsk.
The expansion of the list of airports will help to intensify bookings for summer mass foreign destinations - charter flights of tour operators in Turkey, the main mass outbound destination for Russians, will increase.
It will help to replenish the list and such promising destinations as Cyprus and Greece, which are preparing to open for mass tourism from the Russian Federation.
Source: atorus