Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Rosaviation called the departure date of the first charters in Turkey – RBC

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Charter flights will go to Antalya from Moscow and Rostov-on-Don 3 September. Federal Air Transport Agency agreed on the first application of Russian airlines after the lifting of the ban on charter flights

The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) approved the first applications by Russian airlines for charter passenger flights to Turkey, reports TASS with reference to the official representative of the department.

According to the agency, first gained the right to run charter flights between Russian and Turkish airlines’ Azur Air “,” North wind “and I fly.

« first passenger charter flights to Turkey will be performed 3 September airlines’ Azur Air “(along the route Rostov-on-Don – Antalya and back) and I Fly (along the route Moscow (Vnukovo) – Antalya and back)”, – said the source TASS

according to. representative of the Federal air Transport Agency, the airline “North wind” will begin charter flights from 4 September. She will perform the transportation from Moscow (Sheremetyevo) and Samara to Antalya and back.

28 August Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree lifting the ban on charter flights between Russia and Turkey, in force since December 2015. The same day, the Transport Ministry said that Russian airlines have already started filing in the Federal Air Transport Agency to carry out charter flights to the cities of Turkey.

On Monday, August 29 tour operator Tez Tour told RBC that will send the first charter flight to Turkey September 3rd. On the imminent launch of charter flights also said representatives from other tour operators.

According to the forecasts of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (PCT), after the resumption of chart-polar flights to Turkey cost of the tour in this country will decrease by 20-30%. Development Director Global Travel Network travel agencies Sergey Samohvalov believes that because of this reduction in prices in September 2016 the number of tourists to Turkey will increase in comparison with August by 2-2.5 times. However, to enter the last year’s figures will not be possible, since the majority of Russians who were planning to rest this summer overseas tours have already bought.

«In my opinion, in September Turkey can visit the 100-150 thousand. Russians, while in previous years in September in Turkey flew 200-300 thousand people “, -. the general director of” NTK Intourist “Victor Topolkaraev

The increase in Turkey demand note and ticket services.. “According to our intelligence, the number of searches on airline tickets to Turkey Biletix system after the lifting of the ban on charter flights increased by 8% compared to the previous week, – said General Director Alexander Biletix Sizintsev. – However, this jump is not affected sales. In general, the number of tickets sales from Russia to Turkey in August 2016 63% lower than last year. ”

According to the “Sletat.ru” service on August 27, when it became known to lift the ban on charter flights, and in the next two days, the number of searches in this area has increased by almost half, to 9, 6 to 13.1%. Thus, the country has moved into first place in popularity, overtaking areas such as Tunisia (11.6% of searches), Thailand (9.9%), Greece (9%), Cyprus (8.5%) and Russia ( 6.6%). A year earlier, in the period from 22 to 29 August, Turkey also took first place, while it accounted for 33.8% of searches, noted in the “Sletat.ru”. In second place was Egypt (24.3% of requests), the third with a significant lag – Greece (5.2%).

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