General Director of “Aeroflot” Vitaly Savelyev at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the need for the early resumption of international flights. Previously the request to open the message, Mr. Savelyev was voiced at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.”We can all Russian airlines, including the group of “Aeroflot”, if we do not denote the date when we can do it, it is necessary to sell tickets, we may just lose the historical slots”,— said the head of the company at the meeting with the Prime Minister. The representative of “Aeroflot” has added that now many of the world’s airlines have begun to fly in various countries, thereby filling the market. The head of government said that the opening of borders depends on how the countries themselves to assess the epidemiological situation. “This is the who says. Therefore, we will proceed, of course, the situation in this area is to follow the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor”,— added Mr. Mishustin.The Premier also reminded the CEO about the need for organization of domestic flights at reasonable rates. “You just talked about the need for the number of flights increase, pay special attention to the development of tourism this summer. We currently do a lot of measures to support special areas, open tourist season in Russia, and Aeroflot would be a good helper at reasonable rates in terms of transportation of our citizens to these places, to points within Russia,” said Mr Mishustin.The Prime Minister added that the resumption of international flights should not affect the company’s operations on domestic routes and many of the public inside the country routes should be maintained. For this purpose, according to mister mishustina, the government has allocated a company the state guarantees on loans for a total amount of 70 billion rubles In the conditions of a pandemic coronavirus COVID-19 international flights were suspended under a decision of the Russian authorities at the end of March 2020. An exception is made for export flights to return the Russians home. The aviation industry has been recognized as one of the most affected during a pandemic. To help the Russian airlines, the Russian government allocated 23.4 billion RUB On the prospects of open borders — in the material “Kommersant” “the Resumption of international undershoot”.As airlines prepare to fight for next to vyrovnyayut
