Azimuth Airlines has opened ticket sales for flights from Moscow to Pskov. Tickets are available starting at 888 rubles, according to Travel.ru.
Flights will open on October 2 and will operate three times a week – on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Departure from Moscow (Vnukovo Airport) is at 12:00 PM, arriving in Pskov at 1:20 PM. Return departure is at 4:00 PM, arriving in Moscow at 5:20 PM. The nearly three-hour layover in Pskov is likely to optimize connections at Vnukovo with flights to Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar.
Azimuth also closed bookings on the Moscow-Grozny route since the launch of flights from Pskov. The final Grozny flight is scheduled for October 1. In September, Azimuth also expects to launch the Rostov-Volgograd route and flights from Rostov and Krasnodar to Nizhnekamsk.
Tickets for the Pskov route are currently on sale for dates up until the end of the summer schedule on October 25—effectively only for three and a half weeks. Azimuth will operate a Superjet 100 aircraft with 100 or 103 seats. There have been no scheduled flights from Pskov on any route since 2017.
The price of non-refundable, baggage-free tickets is 888 rubles at the time of sale. Baggage-inclusive tickets are currently priced at 2,380 rubles. Neither of these options allows for ticket refunds. A refundable ticket costs 3,380 or 5,380 rubles, while a Comfort Class ticket costs 8,480 rubles. The latter is a substitute for Business Class—passengers are seated in the first two or three rows with increased headroom, receive double baggage allowance, but do not have access to the business lounge.
Baggage allowances include one 23-kilogram bag, while Comfort class passengers are allowed two such bags. However, all passengers are allowed 10 kilograms of carry-on baggage, plus a briefcase or handbag, and a number of other personal items. Adding baggage to a baggage-free fare costs 2,000 rubles. Non-refundable tickets can be changed for a 1,000-ruble fee and a possible surcharge up to the current fare if it's higher than the original—but for tickets priced at 888 rubles, this isn't worthwhile.
Meals in Economy Class are available for a fee. Passengers are only offered free sparkling and still water. Online check-in is only available for those willing to pay a minimum of 200 rubles for seat selection.
When purchasing tickets on the Azimuth Airlines website, a paid meal (a sandwich for 250 rubles) and paid insurance (also 250 rubles) are now included in the ticket by default. This practice of selling services not requested by the customer, while prohibited in the European Union and several other countries, remains widespread in Russia. To cancel these services, click the "In the order" button on the additional services selection page.
Let us recall that soon passengers of all Russian airlines may lose the guarantees of free transportation of briefcases, handbags, backpacks, outerwear, as well as baby food, medicine, canes, crutches and other items necessary for medical reasons. This is the draft order of the Ministry of Transport, prepared after the appeal to the ministry by the airline Pobeda, which demanded that passengers be deprived of all these guarantees. If the draft is approved, carriers will be able to limit passengers to only 5 kilograms of hand luggage, and the permissible dimensions of such luggage will be determined by the airlines themselves (Pobeda itself already uses a tiny “calibrator” measuring 36x30x27 centimeters for this, in which it is impossible to place many ordinary small city bags, as well as some mobile electronics - for example, some laptops).
Source: travel.ru