Minsk National Airport told which regions of Russia have direct flights
Minsk has direct air links with 18 regions of Russia.
This information was announced at the second meeting of the working group on tourism within the Union State of Belarus and Russia by the head of the Foreign Economic Activity Department of the Minsk National Airport, Oksana Tereshchenko.
Her statement is cited by BELTA .
To which regions of the Russian Federation are there direct flights from Minsk
As the airport representative explained, flights are operated by seven airlines, the main partner being Belavia.
It operates flights on 8 routes, last year it opened a flight to Murmansk, and this year – to Makhachkala.
The possibility of attracting Russian airlines is being worked out together with Russia, and in a year and a half there are already results: flights have been opened from Mineralnye Vody, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Perm, Arkhangelsk, Ufa, Ulyanovsk, Kaluga, Chelyabinsk. This year the frequency of flights has been increased.
The dynamics of passenger traffic is noted: over 3 years (from 2021 to 2023) the increase was 2.5 times, over 8 months of this year almost 1.1 million people were transported, which is 4.6 times more compared to the same period in 2021.
The most popular destinations remain Moscow and St. Petersburg. They account for about 87% of the total passenger flow.
There is also high occupancy on flights from Minsk to Mineralnye Vody, Chelyabinsk, Samara. The number of flights from Samara was increased to 2 per week in June.
An airport representative noted that on a number of Russian routes that are not yet served, passenger traffic is 7,000 people, and this figure does not include passengers traveling to transfer airports by ground transport.
Destinations such as Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk may be in demand, said Tereshchenko, asking representatives of the tourism industry to report any interest in direct flights.
