Aeroflot has introduced the option of ordering paid additional meals on two dozen long-haul routes. However, the service is only available when departing from Moscow and is quite expensive. It does not yet work on return flights to Moscow. Standard free meals remain on all flights, reports Travel.ru's own correspondent.
The selection is also relatively small at the moment. The main courses are “fish appetizer” (155 grams, 910 rubles) and “meat appetizer” (215 grams, 980 rubles). Three types of dessert are also available – “strawberry millefeuille” (136 grams, 400 rubles), “chocolate tartlet” (136 grams, 410 rubles) and “pear in red wine” (184 grams, 470 rubles). In general, this is similar to business class menu items sold separately to economy class passengers.
All of this can be ordered at least 36 hours before the flight departure, if it departs from Moscow and lasts at least 7 hours (these are all flights to America, the Far East, East and Southeast Asia, and Tenerife). It is not yet entirely clear whether all of this will be available on Rossiya flights to the Far East and Bali, which are being transferred to Sheremetyevo from October 28 – most likely, it will be.
You can place and pay for your order either when purchasing a ticket or on the booking management page on the Aeroflot website or in its offices and call centers. You can cancel your order with a refund at least 36 hours before departure; if you cancel later, the cost of the order will not be refunded. In addition, you can get a refund in case of an involuntary ticket return or an involuntary flight change. If a passenger voluntarily changes a flight less than 36 hours before the originally scheduled departure, the cost of the order will not be refunded and the meals will not be transferred to the new flight.
It is not entirely clear at what point during the flight the passenger will be served this order - before the usual free meal (the passenger retains the right to it), after it, or at the passenger's desired time. The passenger can also order free special meals in parallel with the paid meal, in accordance with medical indications or religious or other beliefs.
Let us recall that from October 28, Aeroflot will begin flights from Moscow on a dozen new routes – to Nalchik, Vladikavkaz, Nazran, Grozny, Makhachkala, Izhevsk, Dublin, Ljubljana, Gothenburg, Colombo and Dubai's second airport. In addition, the company is considering the possibility of starting flights to the Dominican Republic, Mauritius and the Seychelles, as well as to Chengdu in China and resuming flights to Mumbai. Aeroflot will also increase the number of flights to Stuttgart, Lyon, Bangkok and Phuket. Finally, Aeroflot intends to transfer almost all flights from Moscow to the Far East and all flights to Kaliningrad and Simferopol to its subsidiary airline Rossiya.
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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
