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Oct 12, 2017 (newstodate): Ryanair may be sniffing at the Russian market in an indirect way - via a Finnish airport.
The carrier will launch flights starting from summer 2017 between Athens and Lappeenranta Airport, some 30 km from the border with Russia.
Lappeenranta Airport is also only 200 km from St Petersburg that may be the real target for testing out this market containing some eight million potential customers.
Ryanair has earlier been operating flights to Lappeenranta from Barcelona and Dusseldorf, but pulled out entirely from the airport with the last flight to Bergamo on October 21, 2015.
airBaltic, Blue1 and Finnair have also been operating flights at the airport that was however left without traffic for a prolonged period.
Lappeenranta Airport, originally built on an old cavalry training field, has one 2,500 m runway and passenger facilities accommodating the handling of up to 500,000 passengers annually.
The carrier will launch flights starting from summer 2017 between Athens and Lappeenranta Airport, some 30 km from the border with Russia.
Lappeenranta Airport is also only 200 km from St Petersburg that may be the real target for testing out this market containing some eight million potential customers.
Ryanair has earlier been operating flights to Lappeenranta from Barcelona and Dusseldorf, but pulled out entirely from the airport with the last flight to Bergamo on October 21, 2015.
airBaltic, Blue1 and Finnair have also been operating flights at the airport that was however left without traffic for a prolonged period.
Lappeenranta Airport, originally built on an old cavalry training field, has one 2,500 m runway and passenger facilities accommodating the handling of up to 500,000 passengers annually.