Aeroflot to add 33 destinations to its winter schedule

:: Aeroflot

In the new winter schedule – effective from October 27, 2024 to March 29, 2025 – Aeroflot and its sister airlines Rossiya and LCC Pobeda expand their geographic reach to include 260 destinations, up eight per cent on the last year’s winter schedule. Of these, 111 routes will be operated from the Group’s base airport – Moscow Sheremetyevo, whilst the number of routes not connecting through Moscow will even beat that, at 134.

The flag carrier Aeroflot’s own network this season includes 126 destinations, with 84 will be serviced by Pobeda, and 110 – by Rossiya Airlines.

NEW ROUTES

The airline group is adding 33 new destinations, compared to winter schedule of last year. Aeroflot will fly from Moscow to Denpasar, Cheboksary and Elista, from Saint Petersburg to Almaty and Bangkok, and to Sanya from Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Novosibirsk.

Pobeda is adding flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Astrakhan, Tashkent and Osh, from Makhachkala to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, from Stavropol to Istanbul, from Yekaterinburg to Kaliningrad and from Kazan to Surgut.

Rossiya in turn is launching routes from Krasnoyarsk to Omsk, Novosibirsk and Perm, from Saint Petersburg to Nalchik and Gorno-Altaysk, from Vladivostok to Shanghai. Its charter program will include Hurghada and Sharm-el-Sheikh from Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Ufa.

SHUTTLE PROGRAM

Aeroflot and Rossiya continue to operate their unique shuttle program between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Russia’s two capitals are connected with high frequency flights from Pulkovo to both Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo.

THE FAR EASTERN PROGRAM

Within the winter schedule the group will operate flights to eight cities in the Far Eastern district of Russia. The airlines offer flat and state-subsidized rates on these flights, making air travel between Russia’s most remote regions more affordable.

LEISURE DESTINATIONS

For those who love traveling domestically, the group offers flights to 64 Russian destinations, including popular mountain ski resorts, such as Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, Kirovsk, Gorno-Altaysk, Novokuznetsk, Nalchik and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk among others.

Direct flights will connect Moscow with popular international travel destinations, including Antalya, Bangkok, Goa, Delhi, Varadero, Havana, Hongkong, Guangzhou, Denpasar, Dubai, Colombo. Male, Mae, Beijing, Shanghai, Phuket, Sanya, Ho Chi Ming, Hurghada, Sharm-el-Sheikh and others.

Besides, Thailand will be linked by direct flights with eight cities across Russia.

FLIGHTS FROM KRASNOYARKS HUB

In the winter schedule the number of destinations from the group’s Siberian hub will reach 32, including 23 domestic routes.

Aeroflot is to operate direct flights on three routes, Rossiya will handle the majority of the program – 29, and LCC Pobeda will fly to Moscow Sheremetyevo.

FLIGHTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG

Aeroflot Group offers over 50 routes from Russia’s northern capital, including 39 domestic ones. Rossiya serves 37 destinations and Pobeda – 15.

FLIGHTS FROM SOCHI

Collectively the group’s three airlines will operate 20 routes connecting Russia’s resort capital with Russian cities. Aeroflot is to handle nine routes. Rossiya will take travelers from three cities to Sochi for connecting flights to five destinations abroad. Pobeda is to provide service to ten routes.

FLIGHTS FROM YEKATERINBURG

Aeroflot group serves 17 destinations from Koltsovo airport. In the coming season Aeroflot will continue its service to 10 destinations (including seven international ones), Rossiya – to five and budget carrier Pobeda – to four.

Aeroflot is Russia’s largest airline group. In the nine months of 2024 its airlines have collectively carried 42.5 million passengers, up 18.7 per cent on the same period of last year.