Low-cost air tickets to Simferopol will cost RUB 8,000 (USD 224) from Yakutsk and Khabarovsk and less than RUB 6,800 (USD 191) from Norilsk. This is stated in a draft resolution of the Russian government prepared by the Russian Ministry of Transport, the ITAR-TASS news agency reports.
The document states that the ministry intends to subsidize flights to Simferopol from a number of cities in the Far East. The subsidies will apply to flights to Simferopol from Khabarovsk, Norilsk, and Yakutsk.
"The planned volume of air passenger traffic on these routes is about 6,000 people," the explanatory note to the draft resolution states.
The subsidies will be granted to students and pensioners, as well as to people of all ages in the first group of disability and people accompanying them.
The Russian Ministry of Transport also proposes subsidizing flights from Kaliningrad to Simferopol for an unlimited number of air passengers. The planned volume of air traffic on this route is about 9,000 people, the document states. A passenger ticket is expected to cost RUB 4,500 (USD 126).
