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Dec 07, 2012 (newstodate): With the opening of the route to St Petersburg from the coming summer schedule, with two weekly flights from Keflavik between June 1 and September 17, 2012, Icelandair is testing out potentials in the Russian market.
The new route marks also the first scheduled service between Iceland and Russia, and Icelandair is now to assess potentials both for the market Iceland-Russia as well as for attracting Russian traffic to and from North America via Iceland.
Icelandair now has an interline agreement with Aeroflot for traffic between St Petersburg and other Russian destination, first of all Moscow, and under the existing air services agreements, Icelandair may also operate flights to Moscow three times weekly.
Future decisions on expanding traffic between Iceland and Russia will now depend on the results from the new route to St Petersburg, where Icelandair earlier operated on an ad-hoc basis.
Russia's aviation body Rosaviatsia has reportedly designated the Russian carrier Transaero to offer regular flights from Russia to Iceland in the form of a direct route between Moscow and Keflavik.
So far no details are available on whether Transaero will actually exercise this right, or when this service might be offered.
The new route marks also the first scheduled service between Iceland and Russia, and Icelandair is now to assess potentials both for the market Iceland-Russia as well as for attracting Russian traffic to and from North America via Iceland.
Icelandair now has an interline agreement with Aeroflot for traffic between St Petersburg and other Russian destination, first of all Moscow, and under the existing air services agreements, Icelandair may also operate flights to Moscow three times weekly.
Future decisions on expanding traffic between Iceland and Russia will now depend on the results from the new route to St Petersburg, where Icelandair earlier operated on an ad-hoc basis.
Russia's aviation body Rosaviatsia has reportedly designated the Russian carrier Transaero to offer regular flights from Russia to Iceland in the form of a direct route between Moscow and Keflavik.
So far no details are available on whether Transaero will actually exercise this right, or when this service might be offered.