Aeroflot Airlines intends to open flights from Moscow to Dublin in the fall. Flights will be operated daily from October 28 on an Airbus A320, Travel.ru's own correspondent reports.
Departure from Moscow (Sheremetyevo Airport) at 19.20, arrival in Dublin at 20.45. Return departure at 21.45, arriving in Moscow at 4.50. The minimum price for a one-way ticket is currently 12,255 rubles, and a round-trip ticket is 19,235 rubles. In addition, Aeroflot plans to open flights from Moscow to Ljubljana, Nalchik, Grozny, and Dubai's second airport from October 28.
This is Aeroflot's first flight to Ireland in two decades. In the last century, flights to this country were made daily, but not for the sake of transportation to Ireland itself: Aeroflot planes landed in Shannon to refuel on the way to America. With the appearance in the fleet of planes capable of flying to America from Moscow without refueling, Aeroflot refused to land in Shannon and at about the same time closed separate flights Moscow - Dublin, which were carried out 1-2 times a week.
Currently, the Moscow-Dublin route is served only by Siberia (S7 Airlines). It has been flying this route for ten years, but without much fanfare: flights are only operated in the summer and only once a week. Four years ago, Irish budget airline Ryanair was interested in flights from Dublin to Moscow and St. Petersburg, but the economic crisis in Russia forced the carrier to abandon these plans.
Let us recall that soon passengers of all Russian airlines may lose the guarantees of free transportation of briefcases, handbags, backpacks, outerwear, as well as baby food, medicine, canes, crutches and other items necessary for medical reasons. This is the draft order of the Ministry of Transport, prepared after the appeal to the ministry by the airline Pobeda, which demanded that passengers be deprived of all these guarantees. If the draft is approved, carriers will be able to limit passengers to only 5 kilograms of hand luggage, and the permissible dimensions of such luggage will be determined by the airlines themselves (Pobeda itself already uses a tiny “calibrator” measuring 36x30x27 centimeters for this, in which it is impossible to place many ordinary small city bags, as well as some mobile electronics - for example, some laptops).
Source: travel.ru