Russia to resume flights with five countries

At the same time, the number of regular flights to SOUTH KOREA, Finland and Japan will be increased, as well as the number of cities operating international flights

From May 25, RUSSIA will resume flights with Iceland, Malta, Mexico, Portugal and Saudi Arabia. This was reported on the website of the government.

Regular flights will be resumed on a reciprocal basis. At the same time, the frequency of flights from Moscow will be different:

To Reykjavik and Valletta - twice a week; To Cancun, Lisbon and Jeddah - three times a week.

There will also be flights to Saudi Arabia from Grozny and Makhachkala once a week.

How often did you fly there before the pandemic?

The countries with which Russia is resuming flights are not among the most popular foreign travel destinations for Russians. Among them, before the pandemic, they most often visited Portugal: in 2019, according to the FSB border service, 67.2 thousand of our compatriots visited this country (including tourists, those who traveled for work or study, with private purposes, and personnel, servicing transport). Portugal was in 50th place among all countries in terms of the number of accepted Russians. Mexico, which was visited by 50.5 thousand citizens of Russia, was in 54th place, Malta was in 66th place (23 thousand went there). About 14,000 Russians traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2019, 6,000 to Iceland (71st and 76th). For comparison, the most popular country, Turkey, was visited by almost 7 million Russian citizens in 2019.

The press service of the Intourist tour operator notes that open destinations “are not as massive as Egypt or Italy, but demand will be stable.” Before the pandemic, Mexico was a popular charter destination for the tour operator, sales to Malta “developed dynamically”, Intourist put its own charter chains to Portugal on the Portuguese Riviera and Madeira, sales were “excellent”. Intourist is now preparing package tours to Saudi Arabia, and "sees the potential in this product."