Source: Airlines will reduce subsidies for flights to Simferopol by 2,5 times
Airlines have requested 1,5 billion rubles in subsidies for air travel to Crimea in 2015, but only 611 million rubles will be allocated from the budget for these purposes, he said TASS source from one of the subsidized airlines.
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Let us recall that the day before, the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, announced that he had signed a decree expanding the list of cities for which air travel to Crimea is subsidized from the federal budget. Number
routes increases to 43.
According to TASS, Aeroflot will receive about 150 million rubles, Ikar Airlines about 190 million rubles, Red Wings about 71 million rubles and Ural Airlines about 36 million rubles. The small amount of subsidies means that airlines may reduce the number of seats for subsidized flights, the source said.
“Either they will cut the frequency of flights to Simferopol, or they will shorten the period of validity of subsidies,” he noted.
According to the source, despite the fact that the number of cities that should be associated with Simferopol under the subsidy program has been increased, not a single application has been received for subsidizing twelve of them.
The source also emphasized that carriers showed no interest in routes to Simferopol from Kursk, Ivanovo, Kirov, Pskov, Syktyvkar, Magadan, Magnitogorsk. At the same time, airlines pin high hopes on Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.
“This is quite logical, these are large cities, and there will definitely be demand for flights to Crimea there,” the source believes.
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