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Russia’s air carrier launches flights to Azerbaijan

22 June 2017 [11:41] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Amina Nazarli

Russia’s IrAero carried out the first international flight from Krasnoyarsk to Baku, the Yemelyanovo International Airport reported.

The first flight on the Krasnoyarsk-Baku route was carried out on June 21. Further flights will be carried out until the end of the summer schedule twice a week – on Wednesdays and Sundays.

The flight is carried out via Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft.

In early April 2017, IrAero obtained the permission from Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) to carry out flights to Azerbaijan.

IrAero is an air carrier based in Irkutsk, Russia. It carries out domestic and international scheduled passenger services, charter and cargo flights.

Baku is among the most visited  CIS cities among Russian tourists.

The increase of tourists coming from Russia to Azerbaijan is mainly related with the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe, various festivals, active promotion of the country’s tourism in the Russian market and new flights launched between the Russian and Azerbaijani cities.

Azerbaijan offers numerous must-see spots, one of which is the Shahdag Winter-Summer Tourism Complex. It was recently claimed to enter the Top 3 popular resort for mountain hiking among Russia and CIS countries, according to the tourist portal TurStat.

Over the past year, Azerbaijan received over 2 million tourists, 685,000 of whom were guests from Russia. Taking into account all mentioned above, this figure is expected to rise by the end of 2016.

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