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Direct flights from Chechnya to Western Europe?

08:07, 18 ноября 2011

There are no direct flights from the Chechen republic to Western Europe at the moment – local airline, Grozny Avia, doesn't comply with EU flight standards, demanded from carriers. The airline only conducts regular flights from the Chechen capital Grozny to Moscow and the southern city of Stavropol. From time to time the carrier also conducts flights to a number of other Russian cities, as well as to Turkey, Kazakhstan, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Grozny Avia began operating in 2008 and uses four Yak-42 aircraft.

 

But according to a representative of Grozny airport, its management has offered another carrier, UTair, to look into conducting flights from the Chechen capital to several western European countries, including Germany, France, Italy and Belgium. A similar offer has also been made to the RusLain carrier, which conducts flights to Grozny from Moscow and St. Petersburg using Canadian-made mid-range aircraft – Bombardier CRJ 200.

 

UTair's director general Andrey Martirosov has confirmed, the company is currently studying the offer. He said, the carrier already began flights to Grozny from Surgut earlier this year, however, he restrained from any detailed comments.

 

Experts doubt, direct flights from Grozny to EU nations will begin any time soon. According to the editor-in-chief of AviaPort agency, Oleg Panteleyev, such flights won't be very attractive from the aspect of the potential passenger flow. The analysts claims, it's much wiser to conduct flights with a stop in Moscow, saying, it's an ordinary practice.

 

According to the Russian Tour Industry Union's press secretary, Irina Tyurina, tourism is the only way for Chechnya and the entire Northern Caucasus to develop. However, «tourism can't exist separately from the general situation in the North Caucasus, which can't really be called pleasant», - she says.

 

In any case, experts claim, there shouldn't be any problems from the aspect of flight security. Grozny airport complies with the same aviation safety norms (including anti-terror) as all other airports in Russia, says Oleg Panteleyev.

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