Air Malta increases substantially its flight capacity to Russia

This summer Air Malta will be increasing its seat capacity by 50% to/from Russia and is committed to float over 82,700 seats on its Russian routes to St Petersburg, and on Moscow’s Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo Airports.

This was announced recently by Air Malta’s Chief Commercial Officer, Philip Saunders during a speech at the ITB fair held in Berlin, one of the leading European travel trade fairs. Mr Saunders highlighted that following strong demand from Russia, the airline seized the opportunity and this summer it will be operating 92 additional flights to the Russian airports. “This season we expect to generate over 7,000 more return passengers than last summer thus generating new tourism opportunities between the two countries,” said Mr Saunders.

During the peak of summer Air Malta will be operating an average of seven weekly flights to Moscow’s Domodedovo with flights departing Malta every Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Two daily flights will be operated every Friday and Saturday. The airline will be operating two weekly flights to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo every Monday and Thursday and two weekly flights to St Petersburg every Tuesday and Saturday and a second fre- quency on Saturday. Air Malta’s flights to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport are code-shared with its Russian airline partner, Aeroflot.

The Russian market has always been very important to Air Malta. The Maltese airline had started charter operations to Moscow and St Petersburg in June 1996. Over the last 10 years the market has grown substantially and since then it generated almost 370,000 passengers.

Last year Air Malta carried 50,000 scheduled passengers to/from Russia, representing an increase of +16% over the previous year. Air Malta offers its customers full service treatment on all its flights. It offers 10kgs of free hand luggage, as well as a poolable 20kgs free baggage allowance for economy class passengers and 30kgs for Club Class passengers. Air Malta is committed to offer value for money and superior service, in both its economy as well as business class cabins. More information about these services can be obtained by visiting Air Malta’s website www.airmalta.com, by calling Air Malta’s International Call Centre on +356 2166 2211, by visiting Air Malta’s Sales Office at Malta International Airport or from any travel agent.