Russian Simferopol Airport sets new records
This year, significantly more aircraft from an expanded number of Russian regions will fly to Crimea.
The press service of Simferopol airport reported this, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Thus, today 15 airlines have already opened ticket sales for flights to Crimea for the current season to 56 destinations.
“Compared to last summer, new direct flights to Lipetsk, Kurgan and Nadym will be added at Simferopol airport. For the first time in modern history, regular flights to Ukhta will be launched. The frequency of flights at Simferopol Airport this summer will increase significantly in a number of directions at once.
Thus, the number of flights to Crimea and back from Khanty-Mansiysk, Novokuznetsk and Ivanovo will increase from one to two times a week, from Volgograd and Irkutsk - from two to four times a week, and from Mineralnye Vody - from three to five times a week . The number of direct flights to Crimea from Surgut will increase from two to eleven flights per week, and from Nizhnevartovsk from one to six times a week,” the statement says.
Let us recall that during the seven years that the peninsula was part of Russia, from March 18, 2014, Simferopol Airport served over 33 million passengers. The highest annual passenger traffic in history was recorded in 2016 – 5 people. In August 201, records were set for the reception and departure of passengers in one month and within a day - 522 people and 2020 people, respectively.
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