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Nov 01, 2018 (newstodate): The Russian carrier Aeroflot has presented a new regional hub strategy.
Driving the new strategy is the increasing needs for creating a structure for the country's air services avoiding Moscow as an intermediate stop on all, or most, domestic flights.
Today, some 85 percent of all domestic Aeroflot flights in Russia transfer through Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, generating overly long total travel times and increasing congestion in the Moscow region.
Plans are now to set up a system of regional hubs, and Aeroflot's plan picks Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk as viable options for new hubs with dedicated aircraft capacity.
The strategy aims at having the new regional hub structure in place already by 2021, and Russia also plans to set up a new regional airline to be launched already in 2019 to operate the 100 Superjet 100 aircraft ordered in 2018 by Aeroflot.
Driving the new strategy is the increasing needs for creating a structure for the country's air services avoiding Moscow as an intermediate stop on all, or most, domestic flights.
Today, some 85 percent of all domestic Aeroflot flights in Russia transfer through Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, generating overly long total travel times and increasing congestion in the Moscow region.
Plans are now to set up a system of regional hubs, and Aeroflot's plan picks Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk as viable options for new hubs with dedicated aircraft capacity.
The strategy aims at having the new regional hub structure in place already by 2021, and Russia also plans to set up a new regional airline to be launched already in 2019 to operate the 100 Superjet 100 aircraft ordered in 2018 by Aeroflot.