Aeroflot plans to launch flights from Moscow to Dublin this fall. Flights will operate daily starting October 28 on an Airbus A320, according to Travel.ru.
Departure from Moscow (Sheremetyevo Airport) at 19.20, arrival in Dublin at 20.45. Return departure at 21.45, arriving in Moscow at 4:50 AM. The minimum one-way ticket price is currently 12,255 rubles, and a round-trip ticket is 19,235 rubles. Aeroflot also plans to launch flights from Moscow to Ljubljana, Nalchik, Grozny, and Dubai's second airport starting October 28.
This is Aeroflot's first flight to Ireland in two decades. In the last century, flights to the country were daily, but not for flights to Ireland itself: Aeroflot planes landed in Shannon to refuel en route to America. With the addition of aircraft capable of flying to America from Moscow without refueling, Aeroflot discontinued its Shannon stopover and, around the same time, discontinued its once- or twice-weekly Moscow-Dublin service.
Currently, the Moscow-Dublin route is served only by Siberia Airlines (S7 Airlines). It has been flying this route for a decade, but without much fanfare: flights operate only during the summer and only once a week. Four years ago, Irish budget airline Ryanair expressed interest in flying from Dublin to Moscow and St. Petersburg, but the economic crisis in Russia forced the carrier to abandon these plans.
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