From March 25, 2018, the Simferopol airport will begin operating its spring-summer flight schedule. According to the airport's press service, for the first time in the history of the air hub, flights to Crimea will be operated by 18 airlines on 67 routes, Rostourism reports.
During the spring-summer navigation, air traffic with Krasnodar, Belgorod, Murmansk, Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Volgograd, Tomsk, and other cities, which was not carried out during the winter period, is resumed.
Also this summer new destinations will be opened, flights to which from Simferopol have never been operated before: Tambov, Saransk, Nalchik, Makhachkala, Vladikavkaz, Ulyanovsk, Astrakhan, Pskov and Noyabrsk.
In addition, air traffic with Stavropol and Grozny, which has not been carried out in recent years, will resume.
In summer, the widest route network from Simferopol Airport is represented by Nordwind Airlines. The air carrier will connect Crimea with Omsk, Khabarovsk, Novokuznetsk, Chelyabinsk, Kirov, Kazan, Orenburg and 20 more cities in Russia, and the frequency of flights to Moscow (Sheremetyevo) will increase to 4 per day. In 2017, the airline operated flights from Crimea to 25 destinations.
Rossiya Airlines will connect Simferopol with Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa, Perm, Yekaterinburg and 11 other cities.
In 2017, 15 airlines operated flights from Simferopol Airport to 63 destinations.
"Crimea is one of the most popular resorts for Russians both in the "high" summer period and in the off-season. According to aggregators of tourist offers, when searching for a vacation spot up to 40%, Russian tourists choose trips to the peninsula. The opening of new flights and the resumption of air traffic with cities where flights were not carried out in the winter will make travel to Crimea even more accessible for Russian citizens," says Oleg Safonov, Head of the Federal Tourism Agency.
Source: trn-news.ru