ATOR encouraged to oblige “Orenburg Airlines” return of tourists from the United States – Reuters

ATOR encouraged to oblige "Orenburg Airlines" return of tourists from the United States – Reuters

MOSCOW, Aug. 17 – RIA Novosti. Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) sent Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to oblige airline “Orenburg Airlines” flight cancellations for the American island of Guam and Saipan, all- still take out Russian tourists.

Airline “Orenburg Airlines” decided Sunday to cancel a flight tour operator “Aviacharter-DV.” It is, in particular, the abolition of nine charter flights from the Far East to the Pacific island of Guam and Saipan and back on August 17. Guam and Saipan are part of the United States and have the status of an unincorporated organized territory. Today the United States is about 900 tourists.

Believe in ATOR, in light of the current policy of Russia scandal with Russian citizens, abandoned on American soil, “unacceptable.” Access to flights to the islands of Guam and Saipan has only airline “Orenburg Airlines”. Realizing that no one but her can not quickly take passengers in Russia, the company, according to ATOR, insists on the rejection of flights, “provoking a scandal more than just a part of the tourism market in the country”.

“Association of Tour Operators appeals to you as the coordinator of the state policy in the field of transport, with a request to influence the actions of the airline “Orenburg Airlines” and oblige the company to meet its obligations to its passengers – Russian citizens, “- said in the address posted on the website ATOR.

Formerly “Aviacharter-DV” appealed to the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov and the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko requested not to cancel charter flights to the islands of Guam and Saipan.

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