Question by LHT: How to avoid stoping in moscow when flying to another city in russia?
Hi, Any ideas How to fly to Krasnoyarsk, Russia but avoiding to stop in moscow? any other stops than moscow? I tried some airline websites but they show stops only in capital first.
I’m in Los Angeles, and I’m planning to fly in summer. Thanks for help guys.
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Answer by astrobuf
It does not appear to be possible from any of the search engines I’ve looked at. The best you might do is fly to St Petersburg and catch an Aeroflot hop from there.
Astrobuf
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SAO says
There are a number of European airlines which fly directly from Europe to other cities in Russia. If you are in California, you can also fly west to Russia, stopping in Vladivostok. Russian airlines like S7 or Transaero fly between Europe and cities other than Moscow.
To find these routes, you should look for flights between a non-Russian city that has good connections to LA and Krasnoyarsk. For example, look for flights between Frankfurt or London and Krasnoyarsk. Then look for flights between LA and the connecting city. You could try LA-Vladivostok-Krasnoyarsk.
I'd look at Transaero, S7 and Aeroflot (which is quite nice on Int'l routes). Find out who their international partners are.
Mattias says
Yes, it's possible if you fly to Beijing, Seoul, or via Vladivostok, but that is only convenient if you are coming from an Asian City. If you come from the US or Western Europe, it does not make sense to go all the way to Beijing and especially not to Vladivostok, then to Krasnoyarsk. Please give us more detail which city you are departing from.
Arsan Lupin says
You didn't say where your city of origin is, which can make a difference in the direction you are flying into Krasnoyarsk from. You wouldn't use the same layover city flying from London that you would from Mumbai or Sydney or Seattle, would you? You didn't specify a preference in layover cities – and there are quite a few. You also didn't specify when you would travel – some airline's schedules change in different times of year. Some airports in the FSU operate only a few months a year. Your answers may vary.
There are two reasons why you couldn't find all of the other airlines. The first is that Moscow's five commercial airports (Sheremetyevo International Airport, Domodedovo International Airport, Bykovo Airport, Ostafyevo International Airport and Vnukovo International Airport) handle more air traffic than all the other airports of the former soviet union combined. Sheremetyevo alone handles about 60% of all international traffic in and out of Russia. So obviously they will get the most attention – and the lowest prices (Aeroflot has been pricing very aggressively lately, so they will show up first on most travel website flight searches.
The second is that only the largest airlines will pay the fees required to be listed on the travel websites such as Expedia or Hotelclub or CheapoAir or FerrisFlights. The other, smaller airlines rely on people already knowing who they are. The way to learn that is to look for all the airlines fling into Krasnoyarsk's Yemelyanovo International Airport – and seeing where they fly from. This way you can find Rossiya flights from St. Petersburg, Vladivostok Air has flights from both Vladivostok and Khabarovsk,UYral Airlines has flights from Yekaterinburg, Itek Air has flights from Osh, Kyrystan, and Hainen Airlines has flights from Beijing.
Will any of these be more convenient or inexpensive for you? No one can tell you that – because no one knows where you are traveling from, nor when.